Quick rad/fan question
 

Hey, well I was wondering... In my WC setup I'm trying to go with as little noise as possible. I have found a 120mm 55CFM 23dB fan which I'm planning to put on my radiator. Now here's my question, I'm using the dtek heatercore to WC my 1.2ghz athlon, gf2, and chipset, will a single fan be good enough to do this? I'm hoping it will, because if so the design of my res/rad setup would be much more asthetically pleasing(building it out of acrylic).

Thanks.

Should be..... just dont expect very low temps. I would suspect that you should get temps on the CPU of about 45-47C but I could be wrong

hmm how about if I used 2 of these fans, or perhaps a 140mm 38dB 116.5cfm fan?

With the 2 I'd be sacrificing my current design and with the 140mm I'd be sacrificing the noise level....

go for quiet. Maybe add another fan. Maybe. remember, even a crappy WC setup will usually perform much better than the best HSF.

it will cool it, but not too effectively. What you can do is of course just add another fan on the other side, with the two of them on their I'd say you'd get acceptable temps

That rad should be enough... What size lines and what the smallest bottle neck you have in your system? I'm running some mystery pump I found in the garbage from an aquarium, so I'm guessing it's around ~100-150GPH? My heater core was from a Ford Festiva (7.5x6x1.8) All copper etc. I made my own block from a 6mm 2x2" plate, then hopped up to home depot and got a 1.5" copper end cap and soldered the sucker on. I'm also running HUGE 3/4 OD x 5/8" ID tubing to hold more water. All of that bottlenecked by 1/2" nips for a slower flow rate out of the Radiator. According to this crappy Asus probe I'm peaking around 48, which I know can't be right... even this POS rig I have should do much better. It's the block I know it. The heater core is really nice, you should be seeing lower temps... your N-bridge puts out about 30W+CPU+GPU(40W)... that's least over 110W easy if you're planning to OC... You might need a larger Rad. :shrug:

Anyone have an old water block they might wanna part with? I'd love to keep building my own, but it takes too much time and hassle etc. :mad: