advice please

Buttkicker · 7 Jun 2012 at 21:13

5 years ago I spent a 'tidy' amount of cash on a watercooling system with the idea being to have a totally quiet well cooled system
well I got a well cooled system but sadly it was never quiet with the pump and fans making it far noisier than the stock air solution!!!

anyway to cut a long story short the kit I bought and still have was a selection of Danger Den stuff for a Intel Pent 5 build (I took it out after about 2 years) the noise was killing me

the pump I have if I remember correctly is an enermax it came in two flavours at the time forgotten off the top of my head its correct name
its boxed up in the garage for the last couple of years but no way is it going back in

the Radiator is a doubled up one and I still have everything

I am just about to start a new build and was going to stick with the stock cooler but after reading all you guys doing it am wondering if I should buy the extra bits to get this setup working again

so my questions are will a water block for a pent 5 fit a current Intel Z77 mobo
and which pumps are extreme quiet these days - no way can I go back to how it was in the old days its got to be whisper quiet or totally silent if possible

another question on my pipes I used the old fashioned jubilee circlips to tighten the pipes to the barbs

on these new one's I see in the gallery in this forum the connectors look to be a far better looking and simpler solution to what they used to be like when I set mine up so how exactly do they connect to stay water tight
they look great by the way

so in essence any help at all to transform my old kit into a new quiet super duper kit I feel pretty sure my water block should be fine if the screw holes line up and I see no reason why the radiator should not be put to good use

so all answers will be greatly accepted Please
regards
Chris

SeraphX · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:49

the block will fit any chip, but i would guess Pentium 5? would be what? Socket 478? that won't fit, besides, the block will be badly out of date, so you would be better off sourcing a more upto date one.

Most pumps are pretty quiet these days
I've had an XSPC Bay res and pump and aside from bleeding the loop for air it was whisper quiet, same for my current EK 2.2 jobby, very quiet indeed.

the radiator should be ok imo, you may want to check what fittings it will take, the universal these days is 1/8" thread,

As for fittings, Compressions are for flashy, Barbs are for just basic function. although comp fittings are generally better with regards to getting the tube on and off when changing bits around

Buttkicker · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:17

The block was the top line danger den when I bought it and the radiator is a thermochill pa2 which fits 2 120mm fans I bought 2 silencex fans which were supposedly the best thing since fried bread at the time but overall it was as noisy as hell
but the temps were very good

SeraphX · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:27

urgh my mistake, Univeral threading for Rads is 1/4" not 1/8"

old thermochill rads use 3/8" thread, mine does, it's a pain lol

as for the old Dangerden, top line or not, it's out of date and won't perform as well as even a budget block will now i don't think

As for fans, i would whole-heartedly suggest some Gentle Typhoons, I've got 2 of the 1800rpm variants on my PA240 and they're pretty quiet even at full tilt

Bubo · 8 Jun 2012 at 10:07

Use of your old block depends on whether you are overclocking. I guess that it would be perfectly OK if you are running at stock. Biggest problem is getting a bracket to fit the mobo holes. It's only a piece of metal though and if you have any DIY skills a suitable plate can be made I would have thought.

Pump wise I reccomend a Laing ddc pro 10W since you are only cooling the cpu with a 240 rad. You don't say what res you have but you could either just T line it or get a tube res and hang the pump off the bottom via a small length of tube. The important thing is to have the pump completely separate from the case. I am willing to be allot of your enermax pump noise was amplified by having it make contact with the case. Pumps don't have to be securely tied down IMO, especially a small pump like the DDC.

Get some 3/8" tubing to go with the default top on the DDC, or get a replacement top and go with whatever tubing and fittings. Sounds like noise is more important to you than looks, so maybe go with what you already have fittings wise and see if the bug bites you again.

SirConfused · 8 Jun 2012 at 10:43

Depending on what you feel are the noisiest parts of the loop, there's a few things you can do. If it's not possible to suspend the pump then you can buy (or make your own) isolation material. There's some good info here on it.

Buttkicker · 8 Jun 2012 at 13:26

Thanks guys for some good and helpful info
not sure wether to go ahead with this project or just stick with the stock air cooler now

My Danger Den waterblock certainly kept my PC running way cooler that the stock air cooler could on the Pent 5 machine

does the Z77 board and chip run massively hotter than the old Pent 5

or is it that the stock air coolers have caught up with 5 year old top of the range water blocks I guess

funnily enough on my last water cooled setup the pump was out of case and tried various methods to quieten it down
at one point I had it fasten to the underside of my desktop worktable suspended via Bungee elasticated straps to reduce the vibration etc

another I had it stood on a piece of flat foam - but at the end of day it was just far too loud for my tastes - and as such it will never be going back in my setup

at the start I was thinking a new pump would suffice for me going back to water cooling but now I find my water block is really not any better than standard air coolers of today so am having a rethink for a few days

but you guys have given me plenty to think about