[Cathar]

Originally Posted by pHaestus

Cathar you truly are a visionary. I always remembered your espousal of the Iwaki and then later the D4 pump with a bit of extra voltage. Must've missed the fact you were always actually the sole champion of silent PC cooling as well.

Hey, hey, mind the sarcasm. I'm slipping over on it here. Seriously though, silence/quiet was ALWAYS a focus of anything I wrote about when it came to pumps/radiators/fans. Go back and read my posts. How often did I mention that noise level was an important factor? I never openly championed silent computing to the level of the SPCR guys, except for maybe when it came to the PA radiator design discussions, but I certainly kept it at the forefront of my work.

So will a BI Pro2 do, or MUST I purchase (internationally) a thermochill radiator?
The Storm G4 would be the only commercially available waterblock to provide substantially better performance than air? Eheim 1046 only suitable pump, or would the DDC do (mine is an ooold prototype? What about a 1048? If you expect the BI Pro2, 1048, and Storm G4 to all outperform my 7700 Cu by a large margin at the same noise level then I'll set that system up.

A Thermochill PA120.2, a Swiftech MCR220QP, or a HWLabs BIP2, listed in decreasing order of suitability, will all serve satisfactorily. Above all else, you want the Yate-Loon 12cm fans. Nothing else really comes close. Ideally wire them to a non-PWM fan controller.

Either a 1046/1048 will do. Depending on who you talk to, some say the 1048 is quieter, others disagree. The 1048, if you stop it from vibrating against anything which is the real trick, will do it all for you. If you MUST go with a DC pump, then the Laing DDC will do it, or if you're willing to chance Lady Luck and hope that you get a good one, the DTek MAG pumps are potentially quieter, again, only IF you luck out and get a good one.

As for a waterblock, the MCW6000 is fine, as would be an Apogee, or of course the Storm/G4. I believe that you have a G5 there, and that would be the better choice. Take a look at your own flow/performance tests for blocks you've reviewed for the 2-4LPM range. All the information you need is there.

Since you guys have such modest (1x120mm fan, small pump) setups, could you post pictures of the completed wced box so we can see how unobtrusive/neat it is too?

I pulled my last in-case system apart to salvage the pump/block, but it had the 12cm radiator in the lower-front of a midi-tower case (8"x16"x20"), a Laing DDC sitting below the PCI area, 3/8" ID tubing, and of course a G5 sitting on the CPU, all done as a fully sealed closed loop (submerged the w/b while bleeding). Didn't take any pictures of it, but I assure you it was small, neat, fitted in the smallish case with room to spare, and above all, quiet.