I tryed with ballpoint pen springs but they aren't strong enough...
Do you have any ideia where I might get small and strong springs? (like the ones used on swiftech heatsinks)

Why buy a much expensive fanless psu if you plan on using a fan to cool it? Just get a silent PSU and mod the fans to 5volt...

Has anyone tryed this? I'm thinking about removing the original fan and replacing it with a quiet 80mm fan. Would this work?

my biggest problem will be the HDD... it's the loudest disk I have ever heard I think normal suspension system will not be enough

It'll be used as a router, it has:
-2Gb seagate ST32122A (think its 4000rpm)
-300MHz celeron (no L2)
-250 PSU
-64Mb pc100 ram

I might be able to underclock the cpu to 120MHz (if the cpu is locked)
mobo doesn't allow voltage changing

It's a mobile XP 2500+

I removed the fan only, didn't touch the heatsink. I think that if you just unplug it and add the 80mm fan the result will be the same... (there aren't any fins below the original fan )

Anyway, it worked great for me, simple and effective.

I'm trying to silence my brother's gaming rig: 9800pro, WD 7200rpm hdd, and a mobile barton. I was just playing with this Cpu voltages, and I can tell you, for silent computers that need some computer power it rocks! I got the following results: 1400MHz with 1.1volt (23W) 1833MHz with 1.3 volt (42W)...

It has a very anouying high pitch wine... it's a small fan turning at high rpm
It can be easilly silenced using a 80mm fan at 5volt on the stock cooler, these cards don't generate much heat.

Doing some comparisons against the 1750@14W and some mobile Bartons, it seems that it would OC like a bat out of hell, and still be passively cooled. Why not undervolt and underclock a barton to 1.1volt and 1GHz... it can be passivelly cooled too, only 15W max I think... :wink: AMD have introduced ...

Is there any way to change the speed of the fans when Speedfan loads? The program always sets the fans to 100% speed at startup and that's really anoying, I have to wait for it to reach 20% or set it maually

Semprons are the same as Tbred (130nm, 256Kb L2). A friend of mine got one recently and he Overclocked it and undervolted at the same time :P It comes with a default 1.65 volt and 1666MHz, he has it running at 1.4volt and 2000MHz :wink: I'm guessing it could make 1500MHz with 1.1volt maybe... (24W)

I bought an old mobo and cpu to use has a gateway, the cpu is a p2 233MHz but the damn thing heats up a lot as it works with 2.7volt :( :evil: the hs was the intel boxed one and is loud has hell. So I wanted to cool it down without much efort, I just removed the 40mm fan and replaced it with a 800rp...

thx anyway... think I'll just do both

I want to duct my cpu HS, I can do this in two ways. duct cold air from the outside directly to the cpu or I can duct the hot air coming out of the HS to the exterior. what whoud work better?

Temperatures seem really good: from 67 to 41ºC !

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1187/index.asp

I was thinking about doing the same, those things have a really large surface area. Mine has 5 stacked plates with about 1x1meter.
But I've given up WC

please post your system and temperatures. I'm thinking about getting one, my system is hard too keep quiet: 2200MHz barton at 1.65volt I'm currently using speedfan so when idle it's quiet (1000rpm), but when I watch a dvd movie it's enough to kick the fan to about 2000rpm. I'm using the barton 2500+...

I use a speedfan to adjust the speed of my fans. does the abit NF7 has that ability too?

How does the nexus 120mm fan compare to other fans? anyone has this fan, does it work ok at 5volt?

I have central heating in my house, the radiator in my room must have about 4 squaremeter total area (it's a 1x1 meter unit with 5 stacked plates) If I could use it for cooling my pc I would :P a module like this costs about 80euro so I just might try it. what do you think? http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~j...

Looks nice but performs poorly, the waterblock is horrible

When will we see the reserator 2 ?

What about something like this:

It's an electric oil-heater. I'd have to rip it apart and use the structure to cool water.

Just wandering if anyone here uses a passive large car engine radiator on the wc setup, post pics if you can I started this thread on another site but not much response since it's a OC'ers forum. check here http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=techmodding&Number=4066052&page=1&...

Here you go: Zalman is announcing the voluntary recall of the flow indicator of the Reserator 1 1. Reason for recall : Water leakage concerns of the flow indicator 2. Recall Item : Current model of flow indicator with blue plastic fittings 3. The Service Period : 07/14/04 - 4. Service : Replace the ...

Check here http://www.geocities.jp/numano3/page024.html this guy uses putty (plasticine, not silly-putty) to isolate noise from the HDD. Increadibly it help to cool it too! I'll try this with a busted hdd just to check temps/noise

I'm only interested in the reservour/heatsink itself. even if anything is broken, I already have the pump and WB.
PM me. thx

That would be worst than just slapping the heatsink on the cpu... You'll have cpu heat transfered to the second waterblock, and this 2nd waterblock is cooled by the pelt and the pelt cooled by the heatsink right? This heatsink will be dissipating CPU heat + water pump heat + pelt self heat... you ca...

Use the WB that came with the aquarius for the nb and buy a better one for the cpu...

why would I need a bigger pump? the larger radiator sound nice though, maybe a car engine radiator (~20x16inch) ?