Spec Me Some Stuff

PermaBanned · 3 Oct 2009 at 23:21

RAM Heatsinks/Heatspreaders (x2)
Video RAM Heatsinks (for an X1950 Pro)
Cheap 120mm Fans (preferably around £5, want to get four of them)
Cheap 240mm Rad (looking at the XSPC RS240)
Watercooling Fluid
Hard Drive Silencer/Cooler (3.5" to 5.25", something to keep my WD 360 quiet and cool, want to get two for another hard drive)

These aren't exactly cooling related but whatever:

Another Hard Drive (320GB or 500GB, will probably get a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB)
New Monitor (22" if possible, cheap and cheerful is what i'm after)

That's it for the moment, probably more. I'm doing a rejuvenation by completely replacing all the parts i still have from my old pre built. Going to get a P35 motherboard from someone and an E5300. Thanks

JonJ678 · 3 Oct 2009 at 23:26

Suspend the hard drive unless you're willing to cough up £50 per drive for the excellend GUJ enclosure. Elastic is much cheaper and nearly as good.

Use deionised water + copper sulphate/silver wire for the liquid

Pass on the rest. Pretty sure you don't want ram heatsinks, cost too much relative to performance increase + most (fast) ram comes with them attached anyway

PermaBanned · 3 Oct 2009 at 23:30

What, just wrap it with lots of elastic bands? I wouldn't really feel comfortable putting one on top of the other. Also, feeling how hot the 360 gets while doing nothing at all i would be worried about them melting.

What about Feser One?

Meh, i was just debating if i should get some cheap DDR2 while it's still cheap or getting some used. What i found is 667MHz CL5, should be good enough for me. Actually, i'll wait on that, think i get into the MM tomorrow.

JonJ678 · 4 Oct 2009 at 00:09

Elastic is very different to elastic bands. For one thing it doesn't become brittle and snap when hot. You weave it between the optical bay mounting holes in =x=x= fashion and put the drive in the middle. Depending on how tight you tie it and whether you put some in to stop it moving front to back it can be very secure. silentpcreview are fairly obsessed with it.

Feser one filled my ek supreme with crap and stained my floor. Clogging up my block is not an isolated incident, some horrible photos online. Plus it tastes horrible and costs ten times the price of deionised water, while cooling less effectively. No deal, even if it is pretty.