[Nottingham] Water cooled CPUs - worthwhile?

[Jim Moore]

Iain: you might find the vibration is either in the PSU (fan) or in
the hard drive (platters being offbalance - it happens and can result
in huge amounts of heat being generated - most of my Maxtor drives
have this problem and it's all down to the cheap platters causing the
entire unit to "bounce" and me having to use active cooling on them to
stop them literally cooking themselves).

On 8/21/09, Iain Lennon <ril at doctors.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:55 +0100, Martin wrote:
>> Martin wrote:
>> > Anyone put together a water cooled PC?
>> >
>> > Worthwhile?
>>
>> OK, I'm convinced it's worthwhile even if only for the sake of reduced
>> noise. OK, so you've got to cool the fluid but that can easily be done
>> with slow quiet 120mm fans on a radiator.
>>
>> So... Anyone done anything like that? What bits?
>>
> Quiet PC (www.quietpc.com/uk) or Watercooling UK
> (www.watercoolinguk.co.uk) have a good selection. I've used the XSPC X2O
> kit twice: once ended in a completely silent PC, the second (current) PC
> has a vibration I can't tie down (I'm convinced it's not within the
> water cooling components), but is very quiet. I've also included the
> water cooling block for my Nvidia geforce 8800 within the circuit as an
> extra. The kit has everything you need to get started, bar the fluid
>
> I had a leak second time, which reminds me to say that Tesco's sells 5l
> containers of distilled water, critical when working with electronics.
>
> Iain Lennon
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