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Originally Posted by knipex
Sorry Bill I missed this.
My question was this.
Lets assume someone was going the route of watercooling for noise reasons and planned on running low volume low noise fans which solution would work better 1/2" or 6mm ??
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far too simplistic a question to assess the impact of fans and tubing size
start with noise:
list all sources and levels
identify those which can be altered
so where does WCing fit ?
the fan on the hsf went to the rad - presumably bigger and slower making less noise
but a pump is added, how much noise ?
-> note that the pump size IS related to the tubing size, so for a low noise WCing solution the 1st choice is the pump - which if based on noise will be small
- so the line size is small
do you understand that a small pump and fat tubes are incompatible ?
so now you have small tubing and a small pump, and large tubing with a large pump
- now one could put a big pump on the small tubing, but to what purpose ?
now the rad size can be addressed, for Swiftech this is predicated on installation convenience, you would consider noise
-> the only low noise solution is a thin rad, the bigger the better
-> a thick rad with a low noise fan will be outperformed by a thin rad with the same fan
so the only true low noise solution uses a silent pump, which requires
smaller tubing
ah, but how big can the small lines be ?
well, again it depends on the pump - but not less than 8mm ID for a low noise Swiftech kit