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RE: Silent HA PC



Paul,

What equipment are you using for watercooling? Got any photos or tips?

Where did you source your equipment from?

I want to watercool a whole 19" rack cabinet. Do you think I could do
cooling for 4 computers in one run?

Cheers,

Ho Yin

At 14:59 12/05/2004, you wrote:
>I have a serious water cooling setup on my overclocked P4 3GHz
>(overclocked to 3.5GHz).
>
>It still uses a large 120mm fan - so is pretty quiet. Only trouble is,
>the 4 HDD's make a lot of noise + the fans on the graphics card, Edit
>card etc!
>
>
>
>Paul
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ho Yin Ng [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 12 May 2004 14:49
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Silent HA PC
>
>If you go for a mini itx mobo .. they have some nice fanless solutions.
>
>My only other idea is to go water-cooled.
>
>Which I am seriously looking into.
>
>After my exams I will be sourcing a 19" rack and creating a
water-cooled
>
>node 0 ...
>
>Since I will gain 3/4 of my life back I will have to find something to
>occupy it!
>
>Ho yin
>
>At 14:27 12/05/2004, you wrote:
> >I'm after an (ideally) silent PC for use as:
> >
> >p2p file sharing,
> >possible audio/video server,
> >HA - haven't decided how/what, but with a PC on 24/7 it would be
>criminal
> >not to put it to HA use.
> >Outward facing web-interface to possibly TiVo, security cameras,
>Comfort,
> >...?
> >Remote display for occasional use in the kitchen (on-line food
>shopping,
> >etc)
> >
> >Whilst I'm quite capable of spec'ing a machine to do these tasks,
my
> >knowledge dries up when looking for a "fanless"
solution.  I think that
>an
> >EPIA mobo will struggle with serving multiple
audio/video/whatever, so
>I've
> >started looking at a "Shuttle" sized unit.  May have to
go bigger to
> >comfortably fit/keep cool a couple of 160GB drives...?
> >
> >I presume Intel run cooler than AMD?  Any recommendations for
cases
>that can
> >be easily modded to provide passive cooling on everything?
> >
> >I've checked out www.quietpc.com but even their "fanless CPU
coolers"
>rely
> >on the PSU fan to maintain airflow :o(
> >
> >TIA,
> >Tony
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