I'm surprised at what some people consider "quiet" when it comes to PCs. I guess many people are used to PCs that sound like vacuum cleaners and they think anything quieter must be nearly silent. I was in a local PC store recently. I asked one of the staff if they had any products for water cooling ...

Good info Zhentar! I'm planning a W/C setup and I appreciate all the info I can get.

Are you really running that XP2100+ at a 200Mhz (aka 400MHz) FSB with a 12X multiplier for 2.4GHz clock rate or is it running at XP2400+ speeds?

1398, I like the way your design is evolving. Have you considered flipping the 3.5" drives on their side so that the front intake fan will be blowing across all of them instead of just blasting on the bottom of one?

Be careful about putting those extra vent intakes too close to outlets. You could end up recirculating hot exhaust air back into your intakes.

Just found this thread when it bounced to the top today. Rusty, that's some great duct work! I'm a bit worried about that big passive heatsink on the northbridge that's expecting to be cooled by the flow of air from the CPU HSF... One problem with exhausting air off a CPU HS is that you're "cooling"...

The Yeong Yang YY-0221 ("YY Cube") has a front 120mm, a side 92mm and two rear 92mm: http://www.yeongyang.com/products/yy0221.htm http://www.caseoutlet.com/Server/YY-cube/default.htm http://www.servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SC&Product_Code=YY0221&Category_Cod...

Looks like it's going to be a YY Cube for me. I had a bid in on one on EBay for $115 and I won it. If anyone else is interested, the seller was "eramax" and they appear to put new YY Cubes up every week or two. Don't go nuts bidding, though, you can get them at Case Outlet or Server Cases for $150. ...

I wouldn't worry about 46C. I idle at 45C and I get over 50C playing Moria, a simple text-window game. It beats the snot out of the CPU, though.

It sounds like they're talking about making something small enough for a laptop. Now if they'd bulk that thing up into a magnetohydrodynamic engine capable of pushing a battleship, then we'd have something with some potential!

I found the garage floor radiator. It's at http://overclockers.com/tips1093/

Now if I could only find that case with the movable front drive bays again...

A quote: "Goodson's experiments have produced a flow rate of 200 millilitres per minute. Keane says this would be enough to cool chips that radiate 120 watts of heat per square centimetre, with hotspots of up to 500 watts. In comparison, Intel's Centrino chip dissipates 35 watts." Right. Are they pi...

Now that I think about it, Bladerunner may not be the one with all the copper pipe lying on his garage floor. I have seen a buried water tank system at http://www.dwpg.com/content.php?contid=3&artid=57 You are correct in your usage of "closet." It's the little room in the hallway with the coats and ...

I guess that makes you a closet watercooler? (Sorry, I didn't even try to resist that one.)

Interesting approach. Have you seen Bladerunner's no-fan garage radiator?

Interesting design, Gooserider. Be careful that the lower radiator duct that's exhausting out the bottom doesn't wind up recirculating hot air back into the nearby radiator intake. North Bricka, huh? My daily work drive is NH to Burlington and back via Rt.3. Maybe we could get together sometime. If ...

I think you misunderstood Gooserider. You're both advocating placing the radiator at the intake. Gooserider was pointing out that doing so only warms up the intake air by 2-5 degrees C, which isn't much of a rise in temperature in the air being circulated inside the case. Putting the radiator at the...

Nice cube! A little pricey, but you certainly get enough room to play inside it. I want to see if I can make a desktop tower out of the YY. The AMS would be too big for the desktop, but it's great for under the desk. The Enermax FS2200BB is another cube about the same size as the AMS, but it's even ...

This is driving me nuts! I remember seeing an nice animated graphic of a case with the 5.25" bays sliding up and down into different configurations sometime within the past week or so. I'll keep trying to find the site.

Heh. We'll all be able to get G5-ish cases in another year or so when the various PC manufacturers start copying Apple. Again. If you want to know what Hewlett Compaqard is going to do next year, look at what Apple is doing today. Although I think it took Compaq less than a year to copy the original...

So THAT is why they have more than one case out there! 8) I use a headset (audio ports) do digital video editing (firewire) download digital photos (USB) and do MIDI sequencing (Game/MIDI.) Right now I spend a lot of time crawling around behind the PC. I really should have multiple PCs instead of tr...

Options! Give us options! Maybe a "building block" system that lets you pick what you want inside. Somewhere rattling around in my balding attic is the memory of a case that let you completely reconfigure the front panel, moving the 5.25" bays up and down with a repositionable "control panel" with t...

Has anyone built a quiet PC using the YY Cube (Yeong Yang YY-0221) case? Do you have any suggestions for quieting it? If you're unfamiliar with the YY Cube, it's a small cube case (13.4" square by 17.3" deep) that's split into a motherboard chamber and a drive/PSU chamber. You can see it at http://w...