Water Cooling?

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 02:17

Hello, n00b here.

Firstly let me say my primary reason for water cooling would be noise reduction, not over clocking.

The Zalman Reserator V2 Seems to be a pretty good system for cooling the cpu gpu gpu-ram and chipset. Certainly gets rid of the fans and the only noise produced is from the pump which isnt that loud from the reviews.

Would people agree this is a good system? Remember my aim is not overclocking but to eliminate noise.

Also, Ive been looking at fanless PSUs, but Ive yet to find one that truly is fanless and is at least 500w. So, Can anyone suggest one to me, or one that would be semi fanless? As in it only kicks in when it hits a certain temp?

I did see one that had a dial on the back and you set the maximum safe temp with it, the fan would kick in when it hit it and turn off when it was cool again.

I have a pretty decent system, dual core opteron, ATI x1600pro or something like that, 4 gigs of ram, 500 gigs hard drive but tbh I dont game that much on the pc, its primarily for watching movies and the like.

So if anyone can help ill really appreciate it.

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 04:05

Also if it is possible to get an actual water cooled PSU that could be added to the Reserator system (Basically cut out some of the tube, make it connect to the psu first, then psu out goes to cpu in etc...)

Again thanks for any help

Nomisf · 23 Jan 2007 at 04:09

Pretty early to be on OcUK lol, but im here anyway to lol.

Umm yeah you plan sounds ok , you will always need at least one really slow fan in the system to pull out "generic motherbaord heat" but you can run that so slow it doesnt matter.

You can get w/c PSU's but im not sure if you can in the UK. I seem to remember the guy who made the Millenium Big Mod PC used a watercooled PSU , but it was only 250W if i remember right, but they do exist.

Rgds,
Nomisf

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 04:39

Hi.

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Would this cpu work? Its totally watercooled just need to know if its compatible with the zalman reserator 2 system. It says it supports 10/8 mm tubing and 1/4 thread( what the hell is a thread?)

and the reserator tubes are 12/8mm. Now, coud I just use the brackt thingies on the reserator to tighten this tubing so that it fits the psu and doesnt link or would I need to get some special tubing maybe?

Also are you absolutely sure I would need fans? All together with the psu case and cpu ive got like 6 fans it is driving me crazy. If it is REALLY necessary I would keep one in at the absolute minimum speed.

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 04:45

If you would suggest a fanless of semi fanless psu over a watercooled one, then suggest away!

Just want to get my system as quiet as possible

Ofcourse I want to show off my water cooled system as well

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 05:50

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this water cooled psu will work with the Reserator!!!!!!

Now I just need someones opinion on whether or not the psu is any good.

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 06:30

Sorry for yet more questions.

If I have spare tubing, or buy extra tubing, could I run some tube around the inside of the case to help keep the general air temperature down? Or would the existing tubing do that? (Tubing is going to go from the reserator to the psu, from the psu to the cpu, the cpu to the graphics card, the graphics card to the graphics card ram, and then back to the reserator (I think I got everything).

w3bbo · 23 Jan 2007 at 07:14

You should always use as little tubing as possible, the more tubing you add the more restriction you add and hence the less flow you will have which in turn will hurt cooling performance, not aid it.

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 07:23

Ok. well that psu, how does it look?

Some sites list it as 12/8mm tubing but some list it as 10/8mm tubing. The reserator system is 12/8mm tubing, though one site also listed an adapter that was 10/8mm on one end and 12/8 mm on th other

WJA96 · 23 Jan 2007 at 08:15

Hi,

Welcome to the forums. What you want is definitely possible but the Zalman is not necessarily the best option. Do a search on Passive Alphacool and Cape Cora. Alphacool make a kit that lets you join as many small radiators as you like together and you can use any blocks, pump and tubing size you like. This is very important as the cooling will be primarily dependent of the efficiency of the blocks on the processors, surface area of the radiators and the speed the water is pumped around the system at.

You might want to remove the competitor link in the earlier post and read over the forum rules a couple of times as they are very much tighter than most other IT forums.

If you are worried about building it up yourself, there are several 'people' out there (definitely not me) who will allow you to buy all your parts from OcUK and then they'll build them up nicely for a small-ish fee.

Lister2020 · 23 Jan 2007 at 08:20

WJA96 said:
Hi,

Welcome to the forums. What you want is definitely possible but the Zalman is not necessarily the best option. Do a search on Passive Alphacool and Cape Cora. Alphacool make a kit that lets you join as many small radiators as you like together and you can use any blocks, pump and tubing size you like. This is very important as the cooling will be primarily dependent of the efficiency of the blocks on the processors, surface area of the radiators and the speed the water is pumped around the system at.

You might want to remove the competitor link in the earlier post and read over the forum rules a couple of times as they are very much tighter than most other IT forums.

If you are worried about building it up yourself, there are several 'people' out there (definitely not me) who will allow you to buy all your parts from OcUK and then they'll build them up nicely for a small-ish fee.

Sorry for links, didn't realise they would be a problem.

I will check out those links, though as I said, Silence is my main aim, even if I only achieve the same temp as I currently do Im not that fussed.

The main appeal of the zalman to me is the simplicity and lack of assembly, as this will be my first attempt at water cooling.