My SilverStone SFF -- Watercooled and Fanless

PizPump · Post by **PizPump** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:17 pm

Almost finished! Just need to swap out the Raptor for a solid state hard-drive and this baby will be dead quiet (at least for me).

spookmineer · Post by **spookmineer** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:56 pm

Nice build, but if there are no fans whatsoever, how much good will the RAM heatsinks do on the video card?

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:52 pm

Marvin rocks! What speakers are those? Any good?

PopCorn · Post by **PopCorn** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:49 pm

the heat sinks on the video card still help because they still pull away heat form them and then dissapate the heat....

vincentfox · Post by **vincentfox** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:00 pm

Is that a new-model Reserator? How is it working for you?

jaganath · Post by **jaganath** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:42 pm

PopCorn wrote:the heat sinks on the video card still help because they still pull away heat form them and then dissipate the heat....

They can only dissipate heat if there is air moving over them (ignoring radiation which is minimal at these temps). Obviously there will be small convection currents, but they are a lot more effective with forced airflow.

PopCorn · Post by **PopCorn** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:54 pm

convection is airflow... not much but it helps dissapate heat .... hot air rises.....so when the air around the heatsinks get hot the air rises and cooler air replaces it.....but yea forced air would bebetter

PizPump · Post by **PizPump** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:42 pm

spookmineer wrote:Nice build, but if there are no fans whatsoever, how much good will the RAM heatsinks do on the video card?

That is one of the weakpoints. The video card starts to choke after about 20 minutes of gaming, so I need to upgrade those sinks. Zalman actually makes a waterblock for the VRAM, but unfortunately it doesn't work for that card (it's pretty old). I'll either have to fashion my own or modify Zalman's.

PizPump · Post by **PizPump** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:43 pm

jaganath wrote:Marvin rocks! What speakers are those? Any good?

Just some basic Altec Lansings. Have some Creative Gigaworks T20 coming in the mail though...

PizPump · Post by **PizPump** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:48 pm

vincentfox wrote:Is that a new-model Reserator? How is it working for you?

Nope, the old version. It works just fine for me, but I'm not much of a gamer. Just the occasional EQ2 session.

Specs:

Intel Mobo for Pent D
Pent D 805
Silverstone Fanless PSU
1gb PC3200
36gb Raptor
Sapphire X550 Video Card

Next in line for upgrading is a solid state drive and the VRAM water block.