Speaking from experience the Swiftech will not be a quite solution. I got the 462 myself with the delta 68cfm. It is very loud so now I am going water cooling. There is one thing you can do is that you can make the fans run at 7v instead of 12v to slow the fans down and it will be pretty quite. Just make sure you have good airflow inside the cube. I don't think you will be putting too much stress on that nice board, unless you move your case a lot. If it just sit there you should be ok. I like my swify a lot and I was going to do the 7v mod, but I want to try H20 cooling. As for H20 cooling it would be harder for you to work on you computer cause of the hoses, pump, res, and etc. Since you said you are going to play with it a lot you might have a chance of knocking a hose loose and get water everywhere. So you might want to watch for that. You also mention you want it to be 110% reliable. Will I don't think that can every happen. With air cooling your fans might go bad, with water cooling your pump might go bad. I don't know what you are using this computer for. But if the computer is a server I think you should stick with air cooling. If it a machine you play with I think water cooling will be more fun. If money is an issue, air cooling will ofcouse cost less then water. Alpha 8045 or the SK6 will get you result very close to the Swiftech. If money is not an issue you can alway add peltier to the water cooling system and freeze your cpu.
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