I'm new to watercooling, and have recently read a review in a magazine about a water cooled PC. It grabbed my attention as not only was it a nice case, it was watercooled with an internal radiator. I would prefer an internal radiator as it makes it easier to move your PC about (something I am likely to do reasonably often). Apparantly this machine is meant to run quietly (but how quiet compared to SPCR standards I don't know). I'm wondering what people here think of the potentilal of this system.

Here is a link to a pdf of the review:
http://www.hollycomputers.co.uk/downloa ... A28S-W.pdf
and another link to the manufacturer's site:
http://www.hollycomputers.co.uk/acatalo ... KA28-W.php

I'm not intending to go out and buy this machine, I'm just trying to understand what components are needed to make a fast quiet machine. With a little luck my next machine will be watercooled.

The point of watercooling is that using water as the working fluid in the system allows you to use much larger fans, and so run quieter for a given heat load. I personally think it could be potentially very quiet indeed, but probably isn't yet. The pump appears to be decoupled and looks like a small one anyway. This leaves the fans/psu and hdds as noise sources - a fairly familiar situation.
The other major advantage of that system is that hot air is vented straight to atmosphere, not to the PSU - so the PSU will hopefully run cooler & quieter.

Hard to tell much from the website, but the hardware didn't look to bad, other than the bling bling window... However I wouldn't be interested since they don't believe in giving you a choice in operating systems.... I'm not interested in buying a defective, OS and that was the only set of options they offered.

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