[Nottingham] Water cooled CPUs - worthwhile?

[Iain Lennon]

On Friday 21 Aug 2009, Jim Moore wrote:
> 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).

The hard drives are mounted on rubber blocks in the 5 1/4 bays, but I have a 
feeling it is them. Still, they're nearly full, and due a change soon, and 
will be picking very carefully!

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Iain Lennon
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