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06-21-2002, 08:48 AM | #1 |
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"Springy" hose
I've seen hoses with springs in them to help them keep their shape. DOes that really help?
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06-21-2002, 09:26 AM | #2 |
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Yes, but it comes at the cost of restricting flow a little.
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06-21-2002, 09:34 AM | #3 |
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Also I was thinking my original reason (beside from the fact that it sound so cool) for goin with water cooling was to avoid fan noise... has anyone made a system that doesn't use fans to cool a radiator? I know there are those heat transfer blocks but does anyone have experience with them? Going even further I was thinking it might be even cooler to replace the fan in the PS w/ water cooling.... alright I need to go calm down.
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06-21-2002, 09:54 AM | #4 |
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Watercooling the powersupply has been done before. It adds alot of heat into the system with very little benefit except reduced noise and maybe slightly longer life for your powersupply. I would stick to the good old fashoned fan. Or you could try and get ahold of one of the new YS tech magnetic impeller fans with no axle.
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06-21-2002, 10:16 AM | #5 |
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Is it the axle that makes all the fan noise or the actual turbulence caused by the fan blades?
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06-21-2002, 10:33 AM | #6 |
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air turbulance and the motor. the axle / bearings dont really add to the noise. since the ends of the YS-Tech fans are closed, this helps reduce air turbulance (and some noise). but really, its not worth the price they cost. just get a normal, quiet fan.
and Bladerunner doesnt even use a rad; he has a large 50-gallon tank burried next to his house (5 or 6 feet underground) which does all the cooling for him. if you do use a rad, you will need a fan on it. you can just do the 7-volt panaflo (or some other quiet 120mm fan) that other ppl do. your hdds will probably make more noise than a panaflo lol. |
06-21-2002, 10:36 AM | #7 |
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It's from the fan blades.
During WW2, every country was struggling to make the airplane faster, but they found that propeller driven planes couldn't reach mach 1. Except for one... A Russian bomber. Actually, the plane itself never reached mach 1, but the massive engines drove very large propellers. At full throttle, the tip of those propellers would reach and exceed mach 1. Needless to say, it was very noisy. It is the first plane to 'achieve' mach 1, but it did so without moving an inch. The locals complained about the noise, so they switched to a dual propeller design. (Military applications are an incredible resource of information!) |
06-21-2002, 10:45 AM | #8 |
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I just saw the biggest rads I have ever seen.
They were 2.5 metres tall, about half a metre wide and a half thick. They used 1.5inch tubing. They are used to cool off the trasnforming station down by my school... hmm, I should talk to the electric company, maybe they have an old one... all it would take it a full size engine, and it could be my massive recycling loop -WireX
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06-21-2002, 12:20 PM | #9 |
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ok so what I'm trying to do is no fans at all.... what if I made (ok so salvage is what I really mean) a turbine or something that got the water moving EXTREMELY fast with a medium to high resistance cooling block? With the water moving extremely fast (high pressure) would I get any added cooling? prolly not eh? ....
well I still want to do it without fans, maybe a heatsink the length of my case strapped to the radiator to use natural convection currents to cool it like that mac cube? On a more serious note how does phase change cooling work? |
06-21-2002, 12:43 PM | #10 |
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Phase Exchange cooling is the same way that refrigerators work. Take a gas, compress it into a liquid, allow it to vaporize into a gas (absorbing heat), take the gas elseware, cool the gas down (release the heat), and then compress it into a liquid again.
Problem is that if you want to go fanless, phase exchange is not for you. Phase Exchange is great if you want to freeze your CPU not just cool it. Not to mention that Phase Exchange will only add to the heat that you are trying to get rid of. I would just stick with a basic liquid cooling system and find a very large passive radiator of some sort or find an alternative method of disapating heat. BladeRunner came up with a great idea however it is unique to his geograpical location. Too bad others can't benefit from his idea.
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06-21-2002, 12:57 PM | #11 |
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dcrainman if you want to go no fans then watercooling is your best bet. if you have a well and a really good pump that would be a good way to do it, although make sure you keep all of the waterblocks the same metal. Some people use the standup water coolers or use a large metal resevoir in your refridgerator or freezer. Or build your computer into a minifridge. It will all look pretty ghetto. Or you can try your luck in evaporative cooling and use a really tall tube and mist your water down the tube (there are a bunch of drawbacks to this). Just some quick ideas.
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06-21-2002, 01:06 PM | #12 |
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Actually, a phase exchanger cools itself...
The freon (or whatever other more environmentally friendly refrigerant) actually cools the pump. The only fan used in a refrigerator is the one that recirculates the inside air through the cold loop. Some models however, do have a fan for the pump. A phase change cooler can achieve a lower temp, usually somewhere about -25 to -15F, but that depends on the pump. The problem is that they are more complicated, because it involves compressing a gas to pressures in excess of 200psi. They are a closed loop, and you can't manipulate them very much because that loop must remain closed, otherwise you have to refill the system, which involves a lot of guesswork if you don't know anything about it. I'm looking into all this phase change stuff right now. I'm trying to find a way to measure the resulting cooling, and to put together a how-to DIY guide. The theory is simple, but the application is nebulous at best. |
06-21-2002, 01:39 PM | #13 |
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cybrsamurai did bring up a solution that I forgot about.....
Like he said, get a long tube and have water drip from the top to the bottom of the tube and collect the water from the bottom. The top will need to be open and the bottom will have to have some sort of "box" to hold extra water. That will cool the water down and can be done fanless however you have to worry about refilling the tube every so offten because the water will eventually evaporate out of the system. That way will work more effeciently with a fan sending a nice current from the bottom to the top but it can be done without the fan. How desperate are you to go 100% fanless?
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06-21-2002, 01:49 PM | #14 |
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My watercooler really isn't for overclocking, I have two 1.2 Tualatins (where did they come up with that name) that are easily overclockable to 1.5 (my board only goes 1.4) but I can't stand the fan noise (I leave the comp on 24/7) especially since its like 5 feet from my bed. What if I sealed off the top of this "drip tube" and instead had it drip trough a double sided heat sink that was exposed to the air on one side?
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06-21-2002, 01:55 PM | #15 |
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The heatsink would defeat the purpose of the bong. It works by evaporation. A fan makes it work.
The drawback is the "shower" noise, the refilling, the sheer size... If I was you, I'd watercool with a rad and quiet fans. It should fix you right up. K.I.S.S. |
06-21-2002, 02:04 PM | #16 |
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Alright so the way I see it I can either get a fan that
A) turns really slow in which case how slow is too slow? or B) Is really quiet/expensive (anyone seen a good deals?) |
06-21-2002, 02:10 PM | #17 |
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Multiple small fans are quieter than a single large one. It might be a little more money, but it sure beats getting a large silent fan that's overpriced.
As for flow, more is always better, but all in all, your requirements precede the importance, so just forget about it. Have you considered a circuit to lower the voltages? You can then get your fan(s) to be silent, very easily. You can then play with it to see the cooling improvement of noise levels, and determine quite on your own the amount of noise versus cooling that you're willing to live with. |
06-21-2002, 02:25 PM | #18 |
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There are some fans for sale @ Dtek which have adjustments built into them. According to the specs of the fans they will put out 67cfm @ 22dbls OR 95cfm @ 39dbls. 22dbls should be quiet enough for you ( your HDD will probably put out about 30dbls )
http://www.dtekcustoms.com Look under the radiator section for Enermax Adjustable Fan.
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06-21-2002, 05:09 PM | #19 |
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more smaller fans are better than 1 larger fan? since when?? lol
you will get more airflow and less noise with a larger fan than you will with a bunch of smaller fans. an as for the YS-Tech TMD fans, i found a 70mm for $13 at CrazyPC. i dont think YS-Tech has a 120mm version out yet. anyhow, the specs for that fan is 30cfm's @ 33db. which isnt all that great, since ive got a cheaper 80mm fan that blows 30cfm @ 25db. panaflos are good quiet fnas an can be had for cheap if you search these forums. you could also get some of these. they are comparable to panaflos (ive got 3), and are very very quiet @ 7-volts. |
06-21-2002, 05:26 PM | #20 |
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how many CFMs do i really need to cool a radiator if I mount it external on the rear of my case? That is the rad on the outside with a intake fan on a shroud on the inside of the case behind it.
BTW i've got these IBM deskstar drives, fast as all getup and I can't say that I've ever heard even a tick I highly recommend thanks everyone for all the help |
06-21-2002, 11:26 PM | #21 |
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If u do a BladeRunner idea.. U need the tank to be atleast 8Ft down.. below the water table in your area.. this is the best place to go.. it will keep your water cold no matter what...
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06-22-2002, 02:16 PM | #22 |
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If you're shooting for no fans, check out this site. . They are hopelessly dedicated to zero fan cooling.
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Quote:
In short, the tip of the high diameter fan blade is what's causing the noise. |
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06-23-2002, 12:58 PM | #24 |
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if you want quiet, volt-mod.
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06-23-2002, 02:16 PM | #25 |
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If you want quiet, dont use ANY fan.
The noise of moving air will be enough to annoy you. If what you want is REAL silence just eliminate fans from the equation. No matter how "silent", "slow", etc.. Now you must solve the thermal equation of cooling your water with no fan. For this you must use a rad designed specially for passive cooling. Those are not the same as rads designed to get forced airflow through them. Fins will be larger, and will have more space between them. Ideally you must layout your passive rads so their fins are vertical. I'm currently buiding such a config, and i'm not the first to do it (do a search on OC forums and on audio enthusiasts sites). Using 2 or 3 rads in parallel is an option. You'll want to add sinks to every hot component (dont forget main RAM, graphic ram, northbridge - watercooled if VIA -, etc) about the PSU: TK power makes fanless PSU's. A german company does as well. If they're too expensive for U just watercool your current PSU. Beware of HD noise as well. Try to use suspension mounts and if it's a hot bitch watercool it as well. Remember your original design goal: silence. Adding a fan just breaks this goal. Fans *are* noisy, even 7v panaflos. Now if your design goal is extreme OC through extreme low temps forget what i said. Buy 6 or 7 panaflos and a phase change system. |
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