First of all, don't use waterwetter. Like the post above said...yeah... While I do admit changing parts in a watercooled rig is more difficult than with aircooling parts, if Quick Disconnects and the right parts are used, it is only a very slight disadvantage over air. It does indeed take some time ...

I would say either the latest Seagate or Maxtor, preferably Seagate.

I tried that with a 6800 Vanilla and my temps shot over 100C before crashing.

well the Spinpoints don't even come close to the quietness of a 2.5" notebook drive, and even my WD Scorpio 80GB is pretty loud. Imagine hard drives that are even louder, louder by far! Oh the horror!

According to the SPCR review, the Spinpoints are quite loud. You can easily hear the thing from a meter away! Also, I should mention that it's reliability rating is ~50% percentile according to Storage Review surveys. In contrast, the Seagate Cheetah 15K has a high reliability of 97% percentile.

As mentioned in tons of previous posts, the Seagate 7200.7 SATA sure has some loud seeks. It's like there's a helicopter inside my computer. I have two of these drives, one is firmware 3.01 with SeaShell, and the other is 3.05 w/o SeaShell. Both are 120GB SATA, so there are TWO helicopters inside my...

11.7 volts on an S12? That's horrible! Whether or not that is the source of your problem I don't know, but that's a lot worse than a Super Tornado 300. My old computer has is far more power-hungry than your rig, and my Super Tornado 300 gave it 12.10V on load, as well as on idle.

You can add waterblocks to the aquagate r120 to your desire. You can get GPU blocks for about $15 online or around $30 in retail stores.

Looks good, but why Phantom 500? Phantom 350 is the same thing and better too! Phantom 500 spins up at 200W, although in your system it will probably never spin up even under Doom3. If watercooling, the Phantom gets warm but never hot, so you have nothing to worry about. Why do you need an artic sil...

If watercooling, definately go for a fanless PSU. I never realized how loud and annoying my Seasonic was until I installed a passive watercooling system and silenced my hard drives. I thought the Seasonic was dead silent at first, but it is actually very loud if you have a quiet system. Also, the fa...

A 300W PSU will do, even if you're going to use 2 video cards.

Your system specs barely pull over 100 Watts.

amazing...

Get a Geforce7800GTX so you can watch H.264 movies, since you mention that you like to watch movies. They don't come cheap however. And then you need to find a way to silence them.

He has a Ninja as his CPU cooler, but he needs a video card cooler. The stock cooler is both ineffective and loud. You will need a Creative Audigy 2 if money isn't a problem. Its sound quality is much, much better than motherboard audio, and it has very good 3D audio positioning, so you can tell whe...

My Seasonic Super Tornado 300 can do this with rock stable voltages: All passively watercooled: Prescott 4.0GHz (3.2GHz) w/ ASUS Motherboard nVidia Geforce 6800GT OC'ed 4 x 512 Crucial Ballistix PC4000 Memory OC'ed CSP-MAG pump Six 2.5" 80GB Notebook Drives Two external SATA drives MAudio Sound Card...

The Phantom 350 and the Phantom 500 is the same thing, I've seen them opened up. 500 just has an annoying fan and costs more. Yes, Phantom 350 is more than enough. It can deliver a lot more than its rated 350W in a nice case like the P180. The PSU itself doesn't overheat, but in cheaper cases will m...

You sure you want to use a 5" LCD as your display? Hmmm... Phantom > Seasonic because on idle it is dead silent. Also I hear that the Seasonic 500 model is louder than the 430 model. I'm pretty sure that even a Phantom 350 can power up your computer, since it powers up my Prescott-based SLI rig (w/ ...

This mouse is not silent unfortunately.

However, I bet they can make the ipod into a silent mouse/ipod combo.

Are you sure it's silent? I mean, I don't own one (I have 6800GT), but judging from the stock cooler's design I have doubts about its silence. But maybe I am wrong. Oh, and the stock cooler doesn't cool very well. My temps get into the low 90's also, and I often see bizzare artifacts. Later I decide...

Yes, in that review at systemcooling.com, they tested the Thermalright GPU cooler both fanless and with a fan. In fanless mode, it did pretty well as far as fanless goes, but not as well as stock cooling. In my personal experience, fanless temperatures surpass 100C and I get artifacts and crashes du...

It is pretty darn loud by SPCR standards, and doesn't cool all that well either. Sometimes I even hear of artifacts due to weak cooling. Artice Silencer is both more quiet and cools much better. But watercooling is even better, in fact 20-25C cooler in idle and 40C cooler in load! The thermalright c...

Yes yes go for the Antec Phantom 350. I had the Seasonic Super Tornado 300 and my cousin has the S12, and if you listen carefully there is some ticking noise from the fans. Definately not near-silent, quiet yes, but silent not even close. The Antec Phantom is dead silent, no fans and no coil buzz. H...

Suspending still won't kill the seek noise. You also need a quiet hard drive. For hard drive get WD Scorpio, they are far more silent than any 3.5" drive by a large margin. I mean, they are really really quiet! Blows away Spinpoint and Barracuda, beleive me I've went through very many hard drives to...

I see where you're coming from, and I had the same problems with my first watercooling setup, which wasn't quiet at all. However, a well-built all-internal watercooling system should solve the problems you're experiencing. It can actually be just as easy to change hardware/configure/etc. a watercool...

After some research, I've found that it's only a heat problem due to faulty construction. If you were lucky enough to have gotten one of the "good" Phantoms, then heat really isn't an issue at all. I run my Phantom with no fans in my computer at all (a passively cooled A64 Venice machine) and little...

I agree. I think an even better strategy to combat annoying noise at home is to do the exact opposite of what people at SPCR is trying to do, which is to use very loud fans. Yeah, 120mm 200CFM fans would do the job quite nicely. If you want quiet, you can turn down the fans, but once those annoying ...

I praise the Antec Phantom! It has very stable voltages and is dead silent, the upgrade from my Seasonic is definately worth it. No coil buzz or any other noise here. Also, I've been running it in virtually zero ventilation for three months with no case fans and it runs just fine. The Phantom blows ...

Hmmm... since you have a Venice, you don't need any fans in your system at all. You can run everything passive.

Don't get the Seasonic S12 430, get the S12 380 instead. 430 is overkill. My old Seasonic 300 can run overclocked Prescott CPU@4.2GHz and Geforce 6800GT no problem at all. But once you silence everything else, you do realize that even the Seasonic PSU is not quiet. That's why if you know what you wa...