noob question for Silent Fast PC water cooling

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For a few years now been trying to absolutely silence my computer but still using fans as i have been wary of water cooling (water plus electrics.... :eek: ),

However with a hopeful upgrade in the new year (depending on money....) i am looking into the Zalman Reserator2 was wondering if anyone was using one... thoughts... ideas... and also if any one was using one with new components such as a quad core, or a 8800 gts.....

Budget is not a problem because i plan to save up until i can go totally silent....
(i use my pc for editing encoding, watching movies listeing to music, and also want to be able to leave it on over night with out it keeping me awake.)
 
Hi There

Without wanting to burst your bubble too soon, you will struggle to get truely silent. You can get very quiet but silent.... that's another thing.

Noise generators are

Powersupply fan ... even "silent " ones are not. I had a watercooled silent one from a German Crew ( Can't remember the name ) that lasted 6 months and died. The replacement one did the same.

Although the Zalman Reserator2 does not use fans it does use a pump to circulate the water. Not much noise but noise none the less.

Last major contributer is hard drives unless you plan on spending silly money and getting solid state numbers.

Having said all that you can get your machine very quiet as long as you are not wanting to clock the nuts out of it.

Minimise the number of hard drives, get a good PSU with active fan control and your Zalman Reserator2 should do OK as long as you are not running a hot chip like one of the Quad cores.

You can also but sound deadening material to line your case if you want to go the extra mile and rubber mounts for our hard drives, etc etc etc.

HTH
 
will the reserator 2 be unable to cool a quad core....?

i don't overclock my componets because i find it to be not worth the risk
(especailly considering i can only go 200mhz up with my current cpu...)
 
It's very low risk with gains of 50% or more on occasion, so you might want to consider starting :)

Anyway, the Reserator would probably be ok with a stock CPU but I don't know about having the graphics in the loop too. What I would consider doing is mounting a second rad in the case to use with the Resterator.
 
The honest answer is I'm not sure. The quads do kick out a lot of heat.

I've got a Thermochill triple radaitor on mine and when I knock the fans off the system temperature climbs at a rather rapid rate. OK it's overclocked but I would not be too confortable with a passive system on a quad core. the system needs to be able to shift about 100W of heat to cope assuming you are only cooling the CPU and not motherboard and video card.

You can see my setup here

My configuration
 
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Only the PWM fan port? Or all of them? Fans usually require 5V to kick over, so it must be doing something mighty clever if it can get them to run at 3V.
 
When you first turn on, if gives all the ports 12V to start and then ramps it down to 3V if you've set the speed to 60rpm.

It's got my Yate Loon 1600rpm fans running at next to silent at 500rpm. Noisest thing in my PC now is the pump in my PSU, haven't been able to work out how to open it up to remove it.

Jokester
 
When you first turn on, if gives all the ports 12V to start and then ramps it down to 3V if you've set the speed to 60rpm.

It's got my Yate Loon 1600rpm fans running at next to silent at 500rpm.

Noisest thing in my PC now is the pump in my PSU, haven't been able to work out how to open it up to remove it.

It's usually four thumbscrews at the back, but some Lian-Li's have a little lever you have to pull out:D
 
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