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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.

Heh it was just a joke, I think the person that made it got a bit carried away, theres another one in there that uses a smaller case to hold the water stuff but it has a fan thats almost bigger than the case.
*rumages around for a picture*

http://www.water-cooling.com/rigs/crow/fanside2.jpg

I double dare you to fix a bigger fan into your PC!

Lol, not quite...

http://www.water-cooling.com/rigs/ji%20kaung/69.JPG

Is this just a one-off or are they all this big?!

To take off the HSF on the GFX card, its probably attached by some sort of thermal epoxy, shove it in the freezer for while, the bonds in it should weaken, then you should able to screw it off in a turning motion...

P.s. MAke your own water block :p

Neep!

Heh, ok, next time I feel like burning my fingers I'll rip it out and have a good look.

It might also be using thermal glue, this will take some carefull prising off, and then you will have to remove the left over glue from the gpu using a stanley knife, risky!!!.

c.b.

Moulded, eg. not square. There's stuff closely surrounding it, and it appears it's held on by more than just clips.

If you are not sure you can do it then don't i destroyed a voodoo 5 5500 not to long ago and that was only the easy 2 little clips holding the heatsinks and fan on.

What do you mean by molded?

c.b.

Doubtful a passive heatsink is good enough for my graphics card - especially when overclocking, but I'm seriously considering fixing a Papst to it ot similar. Trouble is - it's one of those moulded jobbies, and I don't really want to destroy my £200 card.

Has anyone ever replaced the fan on a graphics card?

(It's a Gainward Ti550 (Ti500 with faster ram), btw)

It was a thermo-engine actually.