water cooling for truely silent system?

craptakular · 4 Mar 2008 at 21:49

lo,

never looked into/built a WC system. Just wondering what components I would need and a rough price?

I don't have anything over clocked, just after ultra silence.

Q6600 G0
P35_DS3R
8800GT

Any suggestions? Ideally i dont want any case fans, just water cooled stuff.

oap · 4 Mar 2008 at 23:32

Water cooling uses fans to cool the water, if your not overclocking just buy some quiet fans for your cpu/case etc.

Alan! · 4 Mar 2008 at 23:35

Cupra · 5 Mar 2008 at 00:43

scythe ninja with no fan

WJA96 · 5 Mar 2008 at 06:29

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17842458

Chris Beard · 5 Mar 2008 at 10:46

If you want silence look for passive cases. The connect the CPU cooler to massive aluminium sinks via heatpipe.

WJA96 · 5 Mar 2008 at 11:05

Chris Beard said:
If you want silence look for passive cases. The connect the CPU cooler to massive aluminium sinks via heatpipe.

Search for mCubed Borg - stunning!

Stunning to look at
Stunningly effective
Stunningly expensive

tsinc80697 · 5 Mar 2008 at 11:31

Loudest thing in a W/C setup would be the pump.

I have 3 fans cooling my radiator and they're silent, but the pump can be heard at night which irritates me! Only slightly though, I'm just picky

Ice Tea · 5 Mar 2008 at 11:44

tsinc80697 which pump ?

Chris Beard · 5 Mar 2008 at 12:04

WJA96 said:
Search for mCubed Borg - stunning!

Stunning to look at
Stunningly effective
Stunningly expensive

Mcubed HFX Classic.

Amonlym · 5 Mar 2008 at 12:19

the cheaper option is using a domestic house radiator.

take note: hdd's and pumps will sound much louder one you have no fans

tsinc80697 · 5 Mar 2008 at 14:05

Ice Tea said:
tsinc80697 which pump ?

12V Laing DDC-1T Pro

shadowscotland · 5 Mar 2008 at 14:55

See log in sig for 0db project - but a Q6600(B3)/x975/7800gt at stock was very toastie. (70c at 75% load)

with a quad and 8800gt I'd recomend two passive loops (overly expensive) or better still fans with 7v mod

Ice Tea · 10 Mar 2008 at 08:27

tsinc80697 said:
12V Laing DDC-1T Pro

Does your pump make this noise about 3 mins in ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDkqTcFWu8A

you might have to turn your sound up to hear it.

Dutch Guy · 10 Mar 2008 at 11:35

tsinc80697 said:
Loudest thing in a W/C setup would be the pump.

Maybe your pump is defective, I have to lok for waterflow to know my Eheim is on.

Or maybe the pump is making the case resonate?

If you want a passive watercooling setup of a Quad Core, mobo and 8800GT you need a very large radiator and I mean VERY large.

DeadMan · 10 Mar 2008 at 12:53

I don't think its possible to make a system that is 0db even with water cooling.

mattyrigby00 · 10 Mar 2008 at 13:18

DeadMan said:
I don't think its possible to make a system that is 0db even with water cooling.

the quietest you could get is is no noise but the pump.

Dutch Guy · 10 Mar 2008 at 13:26

DeadMan said:
I don't think its possible to make a system that is 0db even with water cooling.

Very difficult, pumps can be very quiet but another issue can be the PSU, there are passive PSU's but they usually have a low output and/or are external PSU's and even then they can produce 'electrical noise'

shadowscotland · 10 Mar 2008 at 13:28

0db over ambient is possible in any urban/suburban environment (even at night)
There’s at least 4 members here with such systems that I know of - myself included. In general we all have only one fan (>900rpm either in the psu or on a rad) that isn't mounted to the case

At stock it's really easy with quality efficient parts and air-cooling.
If OCing you need more planning and larger budget for a passive water system.

But 0db in as isolation chamber would be near imposable agreed - but that only theoretic.

Edit - personally my submerged 3w pump is inauabable - it's the hdd that make the most noise when seaking. I don't have the budget, but you could used solid state ones.