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Small = noisy - if you want to have it quiet, cooler should be pretty big. There's also high chance that you could get nice overclock while still keeping it quiet, using good cooler.
I'd suggest some case with unrestricted 120mm exhaust + Scythe Ninja (I've seen it for around $30 once) for CPU and to put 120mm Nexus fan on each and undervolt to have them running around 800 RPM. Perhaps you could get some other fans cheaper that would have comparable noise. Some nice intake fans would help too.
Notice, that CPU fan isn't the only source of noise (in most computers it's the most problematic). But in silenced computers, you have to think also about mobo chipset cooler, graphics card and drives.
I wonder why you're not satisfied with your water - perhaps you could just silence your pump somehow and replace fans. Push/pull config with fans that don't produce clicking noise, running at very low speed might work really well.
For disk you can either make custom silencing or buy one. I think that there was some review of these on silentpcreview. Personally I put foam on bottom of my case, then folded cloth on it and HDD. It would overheat, so I added 80mm AC fan 3, running at something <1000RPM (mobo can't read with such undervolt). It works simply great - even defragmenting isn't irritating.
For NB, you could probably use some WB or passive/low speed fan cooler.
Graphics card - some water block would help I think, if you haven't got it already.
PSU - if it's quiet, that's ok. But in lots of situations people end with quiet cooling for most of parts and PSU producing more noise than rest of computer parts.
I'd suggest some case with unrestricted 120mm exhaust + Scythe Ninja (I've seen it for around $30 once) for CPU and to put 120mm Nexus fan on each and undervolt to have them running around 800 RPM. Perhaps you could get some other fans cheaper that would have comparable noise. Some nice intake fans would help too.
Notice, that CPU fan isn't the only source of noise (in most computers it's the most problematic). But in silenced computers, you have to think also about mobo chipset cooler, graphics card and drives.
I wonder why you're not satisfied with your water - perhaps you could just silence your pump somehow and replace fans. Push/pull config with fans that don't produce clicking noise, running at very low speed might work really well.
For disk you can either make custom silencing or buy one. I think that there was some review of these on silentpcreview. Personally I put foam on bottom of my case, then folded cloth on it and HDD. It would overheat, so I added 80mm AC fan 3, running at something <1000RPM (mobo can't read with such undervolt). It works simply great - even defragmenting isn't irritating.
For NB, you could probably use some WB or passive/low speed fan cooler.
Graphics card - some water block would help I think, if you haven't got it already.
PSU - if it's quiet, that's ok. But in lots of situations people end with quiet cooling for most of parts and PSU producing more noise than rest of computer parts.
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