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8/13/12 at 10:23am
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The beauty of water cooling is the heat dissipation medium doesn't need to be in/around or even near the computer. I took a water heat exchanger (bought from e-bay) and built an outside unit. So no noise or heat inside and all the benefits of a cool running rig.
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post #12 of 17
8/13/12 at 10:25am
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Originally Posted by Cheaptrick View Post

You can have almost of a dead silent PC & still getting good temps with water cooling.

I forget who first said it about water cooling but:

Cost, silence, performance - pick two.
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post #13 of 17
8/13/12 at 10:25am
I have to turn off my idle printer on the other side of the room to hear mine....although the printer is an Epson 7800 which has a noisy fan... Hard drives usually make the most noise if they are doing something that requires a bit of thrashing about.
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post #14 of 17
8/13/12 at 11:17am
All depends on your case fans imo. I usually run 800RPM on all my fans and I get about 52c max on my GPU and 60c max on my CPU. It can be cooler, but the noise to performance ratio is great.
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8/13/12 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by Skripka View Post

Depends on how much gear you're cooling, what the processing load is, how much radiator area you have, and lastly what kind of fans you have running and if they're undervolted. At idle I can run close to silent with undervolted fans.
WC rigs can be left on indefinitely so long as the pump is working. I keep a watercooled folding@home boxen upstairs that has been at 100% CPU load for the last 3 months straight.

3 months STRAIGHT?!!! drool.gif

And that dosnt affect the parts at all?
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8/13/12 at 8:44pm
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Originally Posted by GingerJohn View Post

I forget who first said it about water cooling but:
Cost, silence, performance - pick two.

I think I said it a few posts up wink.gif

But idk if it's a common saying, I just got it from the common auto tuning saying "you can have fast, cheap, and reliable, but only 2 of the 3".
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8/13/12 at 8:51pm
my pumps are the loudest part of my rig (two D5's), one is running at speed 3, the other at speed 5, I have a 360 and 240 rad both in push pull with the fans at 1/2 speed (AP15's and 1650 Xinruilians)

ironically the loudest fans I have that annoy me quite a bit, are my intake fans which are NZXT performance fans on a fan controller. If I set them any higher than 15% on the dial, they start howling pretty loudly
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