Nice rig. Good job at keeping everything internal and tidy. Ahd you've picked great waterblocks with the fuZion and EK8800. If you need more cooling, you've got enough space to put in an internal Thermochill PA160. It's as effective as two 120mm radiators and can fit into the front of the P180 with ...

While waiting for my video card to get fixed, I upgraded my CPU block to a D-Tek fuZion and my SB block to the EK NF4 Rev 1.1. Since it hasn't come in and it will be a while, I decided to assemble my new loop with these blocks anyway. Here're some pics. (And yes, I realize that the loop order is the...

Hey our setups are quite close. What kind of temps are you getting. I was trying to decide bewteen a 120x2 rad or a 120x3 rad. Do you have a good amount of "cooling reserve" in that system, you know not stressed out at all. Been a bit busy and there are problems with my video card. Get the PA120.3 ...

A simpler method is to gently prise the plastic housing from around the 2-pin connector on the gfx card (it simply pulls straight off, but be careful). Then simply plug the 3-pin connector straight onto this making sure black goes to where the original black was and red to red. White (yellow in my ...

If EVGA does not honour their warranty for some other obscure reason listed in the footnotes of their warranty, I'll try to work something out with the vendor - get them to sort it out with EVGA. That also has loads of problems as some burocrat in EVGA will point out that the card is registered in m...

Well here's my story. I bought the EVGA 8800 over it's competition because I wanted "peace of mind" of having a solid brand name supported by a big name global company. eBay did put me in touch with the seller but the seller runs a series of physical shops in addition to their on-line business so I ...

WOW thanks thats just what I needed 35<dBa is still a bit loud That's the sound level at just 3.9" inches (10 cm) away. And it is completely unbaffled. At a yard away, it's ultra silent. Put it in a case, and you'll have a difficult time hearing it. If you're comparing it to the manufacturers' nois...

Here's a link to a translated link on pump size and noise comparision that does cover the DDC pump: http://www.over-clock.com/ivb/index.php?showtopic=18864 It describes pump performance as well as noise level. Page 15 also gives you mp3's for you to hear. Sound Analysis (at 3.9" distance): http://ww...

Yup that 12v Liang DDC (aka MCP350) pump is quiet if you keep it isolated. I've got mine sitting on the bottom of my PC, sitting on a foam cushion, and held in place by my tygon tubing and the foam. And that thick plexitop doesn't hurt. Once the bubbles are out of the system it is quiet. Like any pu...

The Apogee GT is a good successor to the Apogee block. But it's going to face stiffer competition now. Here are a number of tests involving the Apogee GT and other blocks. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131297 The Apogee GT and the D-Tek Fuzion are very equal, with the Fuzion w...

frankgehry makes good suggestions. The Laing DDC (aka MCP350) is one of the more popular and "proven" pumps around. It's also known for its quietness. After a few mistakes, mine is now quiet and works well. I haven't heard many people recommend the Ehime pump and I would hesitate to use a pump that ...

Yes the front intakes of the Lian-Li PC-S80 are really pulling air from the slots on the side panels. Lian-Li went all out to lower noise here. Baffled fan exhusts, double wall construction, acoustic padding on top of that, and a weird convoluted way to suck in air. It has it’s own disadvantages (...

I even bought some expensive acoutic dampening material, but given the placement of this fan and the huge hole in the lid, I realy can't see what can be done :cry: Many thanks if you can give me any advice or tips, or perhaps something I've missed. Ok since you're stuck with this case, unless you u...

Actually I have to partially agree with bruntfca. After reading all the reviews, and rushing out to get a P180 case, I too was slightly disappointed. However, it's all relative, and the P180 is one of the more quiet cases out there. But it is not as quiet as reviews make it out to be, especially for...

I think we're at the limits of what can be done with air cooling. If anything we're moving back from the limits, with the death of Prescott etc. Also, even when Prescott was around, we weren't anywhere near the "limits" of air cooling; it was nearly impossible to cool Prescotts quietly with air coo...

I think we're at the limits of what can be done with air cooling. With air cooling you will have to make far more compromises and limit your choices. Ao if you want the latest generation of energy hungry components to be overclocked yet still run quiet, watercooling is the way forward. But it's not ...

Unfortunately, the 5.25" bays are the only place I can keep my HDD - the bottom of the case contains my watercooling reservoirs and fans. But I've now tried seperating my two HDD held in Silent Drive enclosures, so there is a now a much bigger gap between the two where air can flow. Temps are now 42...

I've got my WD5000KS in Scythe Quiet Drive enclosures and they are quiet and significantly reduce vibrations. My problem is that the temperatures seem rather high. I have two of them in my 5.25" bays sitting below my DVD-drive, and there is not a lot of airflow in this area. Consequently, the drive ...

I have a Corsair Nautilus 500 which has a Laing DDC-1TP. It is now the loudest thing running and it's definatly the pump that's at issue. I'd love to replace the pump with a queiter version but can't seem to find any information that relates to noise of the various Laing pump models. As far as a ne...

watercooling in this website seems to be as dead as. i suggest going to www.xtremesystems.com/forums there is a guy there who has watercooled his new 6801 Abit board including photos and diagrams. Cheers, Dean Thanks. I'm more into quiet systems rather than "xtreme" systems - specifically I want an...

Anyone know of good, quiet solutions to watercool an nvidia 680i reference M/B? I've upgraded to an evga 680i M/B and the north/southbridge heatpipe gets very hot. And I'm not going to use the tiny fan evga recommends I use (because it makes noise). I could rip off the heatpipe and watercool the NB,...

Thanks. Guess I'll just have to be a bit more organized. Too bad there isn't a safe way of chopping off all those extra cables and capping them.

Think I'll try one of the quiet modular PSU's next time around.

No problems I can understand the concern about leaks. Well good choice with the 680i anyway.

(All for drilling, not sure why you'd want to do that; all I did was attach the radiator to the P180 rear fan slot on the inside of the case using normal screws and the holes already in the fan.)

I just bought this motherboard now that they've sorted out the bios issues and because it's supposed to overclock better than the extremely expensive Asus Striker. Am looking to experiment with overclocking and a 680i is made for OC'ing (If you're not going to experiement with OC'ing it's a bit expe...

I just installed the Seasonic 550 Energy+ and am reaonably happy with the noise. This is subjective, but I don't hear much of a coil whine if any. As for 430 verses 550 watts, please keep in mind that many of the comments over the past year are not from people who had or were planning on using high ...

I just bought and installed my first powersupply, the Seasonic 550 Energy+. The Seasonic replaces a modular PSU that was installed by a professional system builder rather than myself. I am pleased with the low noise from this PSU. However, the cable management inside my case (an Antec p180) is a bit...

That's good news. What made the most difference in your opinion? Did the alphacool top help? Are you running the pump at 12v? Thx. Seperating the pump from the reservoir, and then placing placing it on a soft foam cushion made the most difference. That takes case of the pump vibrations. I believe t...

It was a 12v DDC/MCP350.

Have now replaced the stock top with the acrylic plexitop and am using the top part as the inflow.

Have also soft-mounted it by tossing out the reservoir that came with the kit (which prevented soft-mounting the pump).

It's now quiet!

Ok, have replaced the top part of the DDC/MCP350 with the Alphacool plexitop and am using the top port as the inflow. Added the GPU cooler to my loop. Threw out the (terrible) H2O-120 premium reservoir that normally is attached to the pump and am using a dangerden fillport reservoir connected to a T...

Thanks all and I will be following these recommendations. I have just ordered a number of new parts from http://store.over-clock.com including: - the Laing DDC Alphacool Plexitop - a new DangerDen 5.25" Bay Reservoir. - the Swiftech MCW60 GPU block - 5 feet of Tygon 3/8" tubing I think I have the 12...