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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.

Hello again everyone - I've just installed the Flower Cooler onto my CPU after ripping off the fan and heatsink, and installing the quieter fan on top of the "pretty" design. Despite being a large thing, I managed to keep the cables and wires away and booted up the PC... and guess what?

There's no difference in the noise.

Next stop... changing the PSU.

I still think water cooling is a good thing to do i wish i hadnt got rid of my kit, as long as your not stupid then everything will work fine.

c.b.

Hehe, no I don't.

What do you think your average fish's chances are against a 3000rpm fan?

Dont you mean fins?

Hehe. Fans.

...

I've always wanted to do that, but I think I'd electrocute the fish..

If you made sure your water was 100% pure you'd have no problems.

Anyone seen the pic of that computer in a fishtank filled with a non-conductive liquid?

Stupid boy..

DeltaJava wrote:
> So what is the loudest part of the PC that will "drown" out
> the rest of the noise?

Speakers :o)

Damnit people, fan annoying you, play some damned Mp3's...

Im a simple man.

As we see...

Noise.

I need to block noise.

Music. Or water cooling.

Music. ;o) Its free.

If you still want water cooling then I just dont have any idea with anything. Throw water on it, that'll cool it down :o)