RE: Silent HA PC

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have got a VGA water block but it doesn't fit my Matrox Parhelia without
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some mods (which I didn't want to do as I'd shag the warranty - which I've
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used once when I blew the card up!).

All other solutions use up PCI slot space - and I've used them all up
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, even after moving to an all singing mainboard with more on-board!

I've got an Asetech system - can't remember price but somewhere around
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20??? Needs a modded big case though (had to cut the case to fit the fan).

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: lists@xxxxxxx [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 12 May 2004 15:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Silent HA PC

> I have a serious water cooling setup on my overclocked P4 3GHz
> (overclocked to 3.5GHz).

Nice;)  What did the water cooling thing set upi back?

> It still uses a large 120mm fan - so is pretty quiet. Only trouble is,
> the 4 HDD's make a lot of noise + the fans on the graphics card, Edit
> card etc!

You can get zalman fanless solutions for ati & nvidia boards these days
to
replace the fans in them, and though I haven't tried em, but any review
I've seen suggests that seqgate barracuda v's are about the quietest thing
on the planet.
samsungs recent models are getting some good press too.
I normally use maxtor or (gasp!) ibm so not the quietest around.

have used a zalman graphics kit myself - but fiddly, takes up too much
space, but does the job fine (a bit like your water cooling no doubt ;))

cheers,

Tony




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