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Originally Posted by Cathar
Laing DDC/DDC+, with a modified top.
If Laing provided a straight-in top, rather than the silly right-angled bend, in one stroke they'd near kill off the after-market top scene and people would have a pretty hard time justifying using anything other than 3/8" ID tubing.
That right angle at the inlet is about the only thing standing in the way of me calling the DDC/DDC+ the "ideal PC water-cooling pump". Instead, an aftermarket top is required today to achieve that status (for me).
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From a pressure/flow POV, I agree completely. From a noise perspective, no.
There are still no pumps out there (DDC with modded top included) that are quiet enough to compete with a well-designed aircooling rig. Even with graphics cards, I can get good performance out of a modded vf900 with an 80mm nexus fan running at 7v. At these speeds, it keeps my 7900GT (volt-modded to 1.4v) running happily at 700/780 core/clock. With one of any number of great heatsinks (the Scythe Ninja comes to mind, as always) on the CPU, you can have an aircooled computer running at 90% of the maximum clockspeeds you can get from watercooling and do so with less noise (in almost all cases. exceptions always exist). The death of the megahertz race was the beginning of the end for enthusiast watercooling. Until somebody comes out with a pump noticably quieter than a DDC or an eheim 1048, I've hung up my raincoat.
ps. Yes, I saw the '(for me)' caveat. No, it wasn't going to stop my SPCR evangelical rant.