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Brians256 · 09-07-2006, 05:37 PM

Evaporative cooling is guaranteed to give you more biological growths than a sealed or semi sealed system.

Brian's Design Rules for System Cooling
If you want portable, go air cooled.
If you want REALLY quiet, go air cooled.
If you want mostly quiet and/or overclocked, go water.
If you want maximum bling, go water.

For air cooling, get a Scythe HSF with a Yate Loon 120mm fan 5V'ed for your CPU, and an aftermarket GPU cooler (if you can't bear to use a passively cooled GPU).

For water cooling, just about all the CPU blocks work well enough. However, I unreservedly love the 10W DDC. I hear the PA.160 radiator works really well too if you pair it with a 7V Yate Loon (or Nexus because they are rebranded Yate Loons).

09-07-2006, 05:37 PM	#2
Brians256 Pro/Staff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Klamath Falls, OR Posts: 1,439	Re: About to refurbish 18 month old loop & New PC on the horizon Evaporative cooling is guaranteed to give you more biological growths than a sealed or semi sealed system. Brian's Design Rules for System Cooling If you want portable, go air cooled. If you want REALLY quiet, go air cooled. If you want mostly quiet and/or overclocked, go water. If you want maximum bling, go water. For air cooling, get a Scythe HSF with a Yate Loon 120mm fan 5V'ed for your CPU, and an aftermarket GPU cooler (if you can't bear to use a passively cooled GPU). For water cooling, just about all the CPU blocks work well enough. However, I unreservedly love the 10W DDC. I hear the PA.160 radiator works really well too if you pair it with a 7V Yate Loon (or Nexus because they are rebranded Yate Loons).