I intend to take a good deal of time making my choices of exact components. I DON'T have the money to waste changing components due to haste leading to error/waste. If I need a year to finish this system, then so be it. But I want to get it right.
Gamut's advice not to rush things as far as a TEC goes is very sound advice for me. Just reading up on the problems involved with TEC's is enough to shy me off, I know my limits. I have the tooling and skills to buld items like custom Y's and my own res, do the case cutting and installing windows and such. But I don't want to fry high cost components trying to reach to far for TEC's, and I'm concerned that is just what would happen.
The end goal here is to build a strong water rig that will give good high performance for straight water cooling. It is also going to be a moded case with windows in the top & side and perhaps lower front where the Lain Li have those fan intakes for the front fans.
One point raised by both BigBen and Gamut is the choice of fan I gave. Now I have to admit I don't have any experiance with 120mm fans. I was considering the Y S Teck fans as they had a listed noise level a bit below the Deltas. Your advise on a better choice would be great. I do intend to include a method of fan control in the tower, probablly a reobus.
BigBen,
Not sure intirely what some components of this tower will be. I can use a couple from the system I have. Liteon 32x12x40 CD burner, and perhaps may keep a Zip 250 as well. I know Zip drives are not populer but I have one I'm used to useing and a number of discs as well. That is about it for my using parts from the currant tower, no DVD in it. I'd like a Dig. Doc 5 for temps if I can afford it, but that may have to wait. I want the core of the cooling and the tower to be good stuff first.
As to the motherboard, gfx ect. I figure on waiting until I get the case and other components ready before I get to intent on just what I want in that area, then see what looks like the best way to go. I hope by then the Barton and Hammer will be out as well as the Intell prescott, serial ATA and dual channel RAM or even the DDR II, so much new stuff just around the cornner. I have to admit I havn't really tried to decide those things as it's hard to know for sure just what will be out and what the performaces are going to be like. I do know that if the Hammer and Prescott are real high dollar that I'm going to be looking hard at the Barton. I just don't see much I need 64 bit for and will be a while before much is out that will use it anyway.
Keep the ideas and advice coming on guys, and thanks !