Hey all,
Thanks for all the replies. The topic looked like it had dies out a bit and I went away. I happily returned to lots of good info.
gmat is basically correct - I don't really care about temps, I do not intend to overclock, but figure I have a better chance of doing it if I ever want to being water cooled. For DAW's (digital audio workstations) I need to be able to choose whatever MB I need, and depending on what's on the MB, I probably need to be able to install 4-5 cards (graphics, 1394 OR a second EIDE controller, ethernet and 1-2 sound cards) Only the graphics adapter tends to burn power, get hot and possibly need cooling, but graphics performance isn't much of an isuue with this applicaiton. For these reasons I don't think the PCI riser card idea is going to work for me. Sure would be nice though.
I had pretty much decided just to give up on this box being rack mounted and go with a Koolance case out since this is my first W/C'ed project, but then I read around here that they are over priced and not that good. Is this pan just for the overclocker/gaming/high-end applciation space? I've heard of others using Koolance for DAWs and being apparently happy.
I'm also interested in this new EXOS product they are releasing. (
http://koolance.com/products/ext-a01/) I don't know the price or whether I can get one and have it running by late November.
Again, thanks for all your inputs. This is an interesting topic. I appreciate all the time peoiple have spent helpiung me learn a bit.
Cheers,
Mark