Water cooling for near zero noise.

[MxM]

First of all this is not about overclocking, this is about noise reduction.

I have a water fountain at home, a very small one with small pump. You know, the ones for $30. And I have noticed how quiet is the pump there. I basically can not hear it unless I put my ear withing few inches.

So I have a question, is it possible to build a cooling system with a small pump the whole purpose of which is not to overclock and provide extra performance, but to keep the current clock frequencies and remove ALL the fans from the computer? Cool processor, video card, and somehow (!?) the power supply with water, and the rest should be cooled with air.

What do you think? Do you know if anyone tried this?

 

[kyleawesome]

There are a few commerical solutions out there that use passively cooled water. But doing that would really only keep your CPU at the same temp it is at now, they would struggle also removing the extra heat generated by the GPU. Now if you dont go passive you'll still have to have some fans cooling your radiator. So haveing a fanless setup might not be totaly feasable depending on your hardware.
About the PSU I'd tell you to stear clear of anything liquid anywhere near that, any good PSU fan shouldnt spin abouve 1000rpm and should be fairly quite. During load I'm sure the seeking of your HD's would be louder then for PSU fan at 700-1000rpm.

The three passive H2O units that come to mind right away are the Zalman link 1, Zalman link 2, TT Rocket

 

[Breman]

I wouldn't touch water cooling my PSU with a 10 meter poll.

You might want to look in to Zalmans TNN(totaly no noise) cases.

No clue where you can buy them or for how much.

 

[MxM]

Now if you dont go passive you'll still have to have some fans cooling your radiator. So haveing a fanless setup might not be totaly feasable depending on your hardware.

No, you just have to have large enough radiator. The links that you have provided are fanless.

Thanks for the links.

 

[shawnlizzle =]]

you can have both silence and performance given the investment

pump: lain DDC (most quiet pump there is) or D5, both are extremely quiet
radiator: PA120.2,3 or bip3, use yate loon fans, they are extremely silent

you probably can't tell the difference between no noise and very quiet, so go ahead with that setup because the performance will be really good and you can have a lot of OC head room even if you don't want to OC