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opteron_bitch · 08-12-2008, 02:37 PM

I've been out of this arena for a while, but my ears are pissed at me - so here I am.

Is water cooling still the best option for silent computing? I don't see fan-less computing working for anything more than low end environments. My CPUs may be near 100% utilization for several hours, so I'll still choose fans over a system crash. Am I missing any options - or is water the only solution?

This will, of course, require a water-cooled PSU. Are those any good? I always gotten PCP&Cooling because most others are not trust worthy enough - and they don't offer anything fan-less. My solutions for storage, especially because I cannot fit enough hard drives in my case to store everything, is to put the hard drives off site and use a solid-state drive that is also backed up off site (NAT works great for this stuff).

Not much else can be disassembled for efficiency, flexibility, maintainability, and reliability. The screen needs to be close to you - so the 3D card(s) must be relatively close too. Which means the motherboard and thus the CPU(s), optical drives, memory, and PSU must be close too. Out of that stuff the GPUs, CPUs, and PSUs need active cooling. For a silent setup this active cooling, I'm assuming, must be water.

Any disagreements? If not, then please recommend the proper PSU and water cooling system for my situation. Thanks.

08-12-2008, 02:37 PM	#1
opteron_bitch Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: illinois Posts: 49	Silent Computing update I've been out of this arena for a while, but my ears are pissed at me - so here I am. Is water cooling still the best option for silent computing? I don't see fan-less computing working for anything more than low end environments. My CPUs may be near 100% utilization for several hours, so I'll still choose fans over a system crash. Am I missing any options - or is water the only solution? This will, of course, require a water-cooled PSU. Are those any good? I always gotten PCP&Cooling because most others are not trust worthy enough - and they don't offer anything fan-less. My solutions for storage, especially because I cannot fit enough hard drives in my case to store everything, is to put the hard drives off site and use a solid-state drive that is also backed up off site (NAT works great for this stuff). Not much else can be disassembled for efficiency, flexibility, maintainability, and reliability. The screen needs to be close to you - so the 3D card(s) must be relatively close too. Which means the motherboard and thus the CPU(s), optical drives, memory, and PSU must be close too. Out of that stuff the GPUs, CPUs, and PSUs need active cooling. For a silent setup this active cooling, I'm assuming, must be water. Any disagreements? If not, then please recommend the proper PSU and water cooling system for my situation. Thanks.