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"Cooling off"

I'm fed up with the really noisy fans in my PC - they're driving me insane. I've had a look at a Water Cooling Kit available from Maplins, with the following equipment:

2 x Waterblocks
1 x thermal paste
9ft of ¼" silicon tubing
1 x Fill jug
4 x Different Mounting Clips
1 x Slot 1/A adaptor
3 x Slot and Socket hold down devices
1 x P4 device
1 x 12v Pump/Res
1 x Box full of hose clamps/screws.

I have no idea what this means for the welfare of my PC once installed, but I need to know, for those who've used or know more about water cooling, if the water tank/reservoir required is relatively small (ie. fits into a small room), and where the coolers will be installed ie. on the CPU, GPU, but is there a need for anywhere else?

I'm asking this as the two additional fans I have on the case produce the loudest noise, and I want to get rid of these as well.

Finally, a thing about Peltier devices - I've heard about it can channel heat so that it's very hot on one side, and cool on the other - where does this heat go without boiling the PC - would a water cooler be a good thing to use next to the Peltier device?

I hope someone can help.

Spray painting...
Just got my first mods through the door this morning :)
PC BADGES!!!!

*dances*

Heh. The front of my DVD drive won't come off, or at least, it's being very difficult about it. This means I can't spray it. I'm not impressed.

meh, just installed my DVD drive, looks so very nice.
IBM drive works well too, put it this PC as it's a bit messed up at this moment in time, no loud noises just yet.

*sits and waits*

I have a choice of 4 CD drives around the house. Rar :)

I love PC mods, they look so very geeky, i'm gonna buy/make, whatever a perspex side panel for mine, bloomin port holes, silly things.

Mods in there that I like:

Speaker in the front of case :D - crazy dood
Completly See-Through case (lovely)

I want to put a CD drive into my Monitor too, think thats a good idea as my PCs always under a table and that means having to move *screams*
maybe put a webcam into the monitor too but thats already been done quite a bit.

*imaging putting a flat screen monitor into a normal case and put his PC in the back of the monitor*

*slaps himself*

No...

http://www.multiplay.co.uk/covmenu.asp

i12.

i12? That's a room in the IT block, right?

DeltaJava wrote:
> By the way, does the title "Acoustic Damping Material"
> appeal to you?
>
> http://www.quietpc.com/powersnooze.php
>
> What do you think? Will it really "dampen" the noise, or
> just burn up everything inside after smelling of plastic?


Nah, I've thought about this alot, I'm told it doesn't work at all. There was also some guy at i12 who had it, he said it was a total waste of money. Plus, it increases temperatures.

Better that letting people live with false information.

DeltaJava wrote:
> Geez, can you two stop arguing for a minute?

Isn't it rather annoying. TN has to disagree with everything.