Completely Quiet Watercooling?
 

As you can tell from my name, I'm a complete and utter newb when it comes to water cooling.

What I would like to do is create a completely silent watercooling setup.

I'm not looking to do any sort of extreme overclocking; I just want to eliminate noise from my system. So, is it feasible to create a completely quiet water cooling setup using no fans at all?

The idea of water cooling is to transport heat from the CPU to another HSF(radiator).
Unless your room is artic frost cold then the radiator wont be able relase much heat if any at all. You will need at fan to blow air through the radiator( just like a regular HSF). Basically from watercooling you get a low muffle rather than the high pitch whine that air cooling delivers.

I'd take the low hum of a 120mm fan over that 38cfm delta any day.

I suppose you could use a couple 80 or 92 MM fans on the radiator. Might be a little quieter than a 120mm. but then again, maybe not.

the sunon 120mm fans are really quiet.

Panaflo 120mm L1A's are the fans you need. They are 30 db at 69 cfm airflow. My water cooling system has two 120mm panaflos, and the waterpump and it's quieter than the heatsink and fan i was using.

Hi!
I have a K7 (old model) 700@900 watercooled with a, for you, unknown copper wblock.
I use a plastic recevoir of about 7 liters filled only with distilled h2o, and a passive auto-radiator (it slows the water flow a lot, must be changed in the future...).
With this setup i have nearly 30°C the water exiting the wblock,about 28°C the water in the systems, 24°C air temperature...
Since I've the temrmometer in the water I can't say the exact die temp of the cpu, but it crunches genome unit for all day without any problem... You should give it a try :)

Erupter, are you saying that with a large enough reservoir I wouldn't need to use fans?

Well, I would say Papst 120mm fans would be the absolute best fans to get, but if you can find them tell me! :p

Beware with a reservoir you'll only delay system warm up. Water temp will then rise, more slowly, to its maximum. If you let your system run more than a few hours dont count on it... Unless you're willing to insulate your socket and throw ice into the reservoir every 10mn or so :)

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Would it possible to do something like this to a standard power supply instead of having to buy their overpriced contraption?

I run a huge (50 UK gallon) :eek: reservoir. It the header tank to the hot water system. Its filled by mains water (10-12C)when ever anyone uses any hot water. However it still gets warm (14-15C) throughout the day when no one runs hot water and I leave dnet going. I run an AXIA 1000@1470@1.9V and it maxes out at 23C (thermocouple next to core)

Basically just confirming what SureFoot is saying, you need a very large reservoir if you want to completely avoid fans.