http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=10000&page=4&pp=30 Read post #113 onwards, pic at post #120, but suggest reading from 113 to the end. I'm more of a overclocker who comes here to find ways to keep noise to a minimum while maintaining ALL my performance........ But I thought of all y...

I'm afraid that with 5 drives, one of which is a Raptor...PCP&C Turbo 510 PSU.... this isn't going to be "quiet". I'd suggest a single Delta tri blade low speed fan for the rad & place the rad in front of the case at/on the intake for cooler air. And have the Delta set up on a shroud to pull air in ...

I've seen a post by the Storms maker Cathar saying that the water in the block can be heard with a really extreme pump in use. He said he could hear a hissing noise coming from the Cascade block when making use of a Iwaki MD30RLZT pump. But this is hardly a normal pump, it's the most powerfull pump ...

I don't know why I didn't post this before, but the biggest advantage of the Asetek HDD water coolers is that they have no aluminum in them. Both the Koolance & Innovatek HDD coolers are made of alum. a unneeded corrosion risk in a water loop.

While those already mentioned will all work you may also wish to check out the ones made by Asetek

www.frozencpu.com

A combination of a copper contact plate & plexi upper, a bit of bling & also the copper should aid temps. Yet as only the contact plate is copper it shouldn't weigh to much.

www.Asetek.com They have both 3.5" & 5.25" hard drive coolers. And they are copper, not aluminum for the metal parts, so no corrosion risks & better cooling. A large protion of the drive blocks are plexi to save weight. www.snt-systems.com Also has copper/plexi drive coolers. The 5.25" cooler looks ...

I not only cut out the front grille, I cut out the hard drive cage as well. Then mounted my drive on the top of a layer of 1" sound foam on the floor using a Zalman drive cooler to hold it in place, just needed long bolts for the drive cooler. I also cut out the rear grille. It dropped the noise lev...

Thick heater cores work very well with fans that offer a high enough pressure rate, which no low noise fan does. You'll be better off with a smaller rad, which isn't so good on the water side, but will work far better with a low pressure/noise fan on the air side. It's all a balancing act. You may a...

First thing I see with your planned for set up is that you want a mini-ATX case. Not exactly a top choice for a water rig. I've a Antec midtower BQE3700 case with a planned water loop for both the CPU & GPU on the way. I can't guess how I'd get it into a mini case. My planned loop. Pump 50Z from Coo...

I didn't even try to save those silicon isolators, replaced with nylon bolts and a silicon gasket thingy. Removal was easy as I had no concern as to saving those silicon isolators. The two 120mm fans I'm useing even if at full speed only make a modest whoosh sound, far better than I've been acustome...

While I'm no expert on low noise, I do have a 3700BQE case. I moved the stock 120mm fan that comes with the case to the front location, then installed a Noiseblocker SX in the rear location. It works well for me. I can have a very low noise system, or by turning up the fans (all are on a reobus) on ...

Sorry,

http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/comb ... ipe101/htm

Will also see if I can relocate one review I read regarding this sink.

Has anyone here tried this cooler yet? 4 heat pipes & all copper thin finned construction.

I'm interested in how well it cools & at what noise level.

Thanks

Just like the title, has anyone tried the OCZ new 520 watt PSU?

I've seen a add stating it's only 23dba @ 60% load,.......but how loud does it get under a larger load?

Thanks for any guidence you can offer on this.

One thing I'd like to add. If you can, find a single pass heater core as they are much lower resistence to flow than a dual pass type. The core from a Chevy 69-72 pick-up With A/C is one such that is populer with many here in the US.

I've used sorbothane for years on my competitive shotguns. It makes a big differance when shooting a 200 target program....with a 12ga.

And it does also speed up follow up shots as part of what it does is steady the gun in recoil, preventing what is called recoil bounce.

Good use of a router I can well think of.....but a lathe? I'll wait for part 2, will have to be interesting. Lathe isn't just to create bling bling value is it?

You can often get Lexan (polycarbonate) on ebay real reasonable. I've picked up 1/4", 3/8" & 1/2" polycarb for less than a shop will sell me acrylic for. And polycarbonate is the main ingrediant of bullet proofed glass. Only thing is bullet proof glass is .8" on up in thickness depending on what cal...

Iwaki MD15 A more powerfull pump than most listed here except the Iwaki MD20 posted above. If you are within a couple feet it makes a hum you can hear, but not loud by any means. Inside a case lined with sound deadening foam I very much doubt you'd hear it at all. :) I'd like to point out that noise...

www.snt-systems.com

Heres a site with a watercooled PSU if you're interested in one available for purchase.

A interesting approach man. I've wondered before if useing a thicker material for the window would help. A thicker window would add weight for damping vibrations in the panel as well as offering more resistence to sound transmission.

Keep the Swiftech, it offers much better flow than a Ehiem, just takes a bit more work to quiet it down. www.mcmasters.com In the polyurathane section buy some 3/8" or 1/2" thinck Sorbothane and mount the pump on that. I've seen several posts here saying that is better than foam for deadening vibrat...

n: And there are one more thing against Swiftech, except the discusable reliability (not proven over years like Eheim) - the pump add lot's of heat into the loop, so... :oops: :? The Swiftech uses LESS power than those Eheims, it only uses 9 watts. It adds almost no heat to a loop! Also the Swiftec...

. i'm guessing the loudest thing in the comp will be PS and all the 120's. With a SF-609 i should be able to control those fans pretty well to keep the noise lower. Just hoping the controller has enough juice per channel to run it all. heard some bad things about it...who knows. I've a Sunbeam reob...

don't have the stuff yet....should be a pretty good setup tho here is order of the loop eheim 1250 double heatercore DD RBX DD maze4 GPU cooler 5 1/4 rez and then back to pump btw....my roomate has sound deadening foam, and all it did was create weight in the case. Didn't do jack for sound. That's ...

First let me say, congrats on a VERY NICE O/C man! :D That Mushkin is rock'n hard for you, that's a really good fsb for a full gig of RAM. Have you given any thought to sound deadening foams? They could help you some I'd think. www.mcmasters.com has some good stuff at saner cost that the puter sites...

That's a lot of information! Thanks! Ty, ty I'm glad you like it. Just remember I know performance water cooling well , I'm still pretty knew to thinking about ways to reduce noise. My fan selection is the best I know of for low noise. But it's the area most open to better solutions in the above. I...

Now which of these parts would I use in a low noise planned rig? PUMP => Swiftech MCP 600, I'd stand a small bit of extra noise here for what this pumps much higher head rate can do for the loop. Rad & fans=> Chevy single pass pick up core with dual Panaflo L1As in a push pull configuration, or a si...

CPU Waterblocks There are dozens of these blocks from differant makers on the market today. But which are the best for a low noise system? Wrong question! Which is best in a low to moderate FLOW system? Right qusetion! The best block on the market that is pretty easy to get hold of is the D-Tek Whi...

RAD FANS The choice of fans for the water cooling loops rad are always a compromise of sorts. The more air flow you have the better to maintian temps at the lowest possbile level, but this generates a higher noise level. The lowest noise fans available are also the worest for good cooling. The pres...