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Originally Posted by fhorst
Bladerunner, Thanks for the feedback. I guess I've visitit your site about a hondred times  I like your style!
Zero fan is not my goal, maximizing performence is. And a lot of the performence out there is limited due to the heat. When it gets to hot, the life span is half, and lockups are regular.
I don't have the soldering/milling skills (and believe me, I've tried!) to make it like yours or petter. It only ended me up in killing expensive PSU's 
Oh well, Once I have my system up and running again, I'll thing of something
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The site is very nice, i agree.
If all you want is maximizing performance, then watercooling your psu is not the way to go I believe. You will at best make the psu perform equally good with watercooling contra aircooling, I have not yet watercooled a psu with a noticeable reduction in performance though.
I do not really consider lifespan that much, at the pace hardware is replaced, the only hardware that dies in my hands is because of bad treatment. But I do not like my hardware hot either, not because of lifespan though.
About skills, I had trouble soldering in the beginning, but with practice it got better. I think that the timefactor is more important than the skills factor. The more time you put into the blocks, the nicer you can make them look and properly perform. The performance is properly more likely to lie in the design, but a good lapping and stuff will have something to say.