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Originally Posted by Long Haired Git

Is it me, or is the innovaKonvekt-O-Matic PASSIVE ULTRA over £120 plus delivery.
HELLO.

Yes unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Long Haired Git

Can't help but think a horizontally orientated large heatercore/radiator will outperform and be cheaper. Something like the thing that Cathar made for Athalus:
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...athar+Radiator
which apparently cost just AUD$150 = approx £60.

A quote around there has Cathar saying a typical 120.2 radiator is good for "cooling up to 400W of heat load without using stupidly noisy fans and without letting the water temps climb past 10C above ambient". You're going passive, but then only 210 watts?

The pics are broken.
Don't you have to mount a radiator horisontally for most efficient passive cooling?

Originally Posted by Long Haired Git

Also, are you water cooling the PSU? What video card do you plan to run, and does it need cooling? Is there a point to having a silent CPU cooler if the GPU and PSU have fans? Remember that ANY air flow to the radiator is going to have a very large impact on the cooling ability. Eg: You'd may find a 80.1 radiator with a single 80mm fan for both the rad and PSU outperforms the passive radiators above with no "forced" air flow.

The PSU has a 120mm fan and is supposed to be 21dB so not completely noiseless, but close. The GPU is a passively cooled 6600. I do have an 80.1 radiator in my gaming case and it needs a Vantec tornado to keep a 3400+ and a 6800GT cool (and yes the noise from it is driving me mad).

Originally Posted by Long Haired Git

Is the case going to be Tower or Desktop? My current design (still in the design phase, sigh) has a normal tower modified to have a 120mm fan sucking air out the top of the PSU and out of the case, and then a 120.2 sized radiator on the bottom of the case as the sole way for air to move through. Not fanless, but a single tri-cod fan will be essentially silent and it will run far cooler than a truely passive rig, and no need to WC the PSU and HDDs.

I plan to use this case so not the easiest one to find space for a radiator in. I might go for a PA160 if I can find a good looking way to mount it externally...