Water Cooling cases... which one????

[WATYF]

O.K... I'm lazy, and I have extra money... so instead of trying to get a bunch of do-it-yourself kits for water cooling and mod'ing my existing setup, I just want to get a water-cooling case.


What are the best ones?

I've heard of Koolance and looked into those a bit... they don't seem too bad... are they a "complete" cooling option? (CPU, HDD, Case, etc.)


Any feedback would be appreciated.

WATYF

[Soldier_Of_Evil]

Also see the Swiftec QPower. But i digress.

While the swiftec kti is actually really good, it would pay off MUCH more if you assembeled the kit togheter yourself. If i were you i would go with innovatek, since they make awsome stuff. But if you are lazy like you said, then the QPower is for you.

[kpxgq]

yeah koolance is probably your best bet for prebuild watercooling

http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/fro...nu_search.html

[number1sixerfan]

Actually I think the swiftech watercooled cases are better. They come with a quality waterblock, radiator, and pump. Swiftech is also a lot better than Koolance in general.

You'd get better performance if you just did it yourself with individual parts from different places/companies.

[WATYF]

Yeah... but I'd have to do mod'ing to my case and blah blah blah...


I just want the least hassle.


But I did have another question... is watercooling a totally silent method? Other than a northbridge fan and a GPU fan, can I go totally silent with a watercooling setup?


WATYF

[number1sixerfan]

Originally posted by WATYF
Yeah... but I'd have to do mod'ing to my case and blah blah blah...


I just want the least hassle.


But I did have another question... is watercooling a totally silent method? Other than a northbridge fan and a GPU fan, can I go totally silent with a watercooling setup?


WATYF

If you don't care about overclocking or super low temps, you can go dead silent. You could even go passive on the radiator although I do not recommend it.

[WATYF]

see.. that's what I'm talking aboot... I don't want to overclock at all. The reason I want watercooling is because I need my computer to be dead silent.


I looked at the Q-Power and it has a big butt-load of fans on it... i also looked at reviews on various Koolance products, which have 3 80mm's on the cooling "center", and they were rated at 50 dBA's or something like that... that's way too loud.


What's the best way to cool my system totally silent?


WATYF

[WATYF]

Maybe I'm the only freak out there who's looking for dead silent cooling, but all these pre-mods look like they're for overclockers.


There has got to be some kind of dead silent cooling method.


WATYF

[number1sixerfan]

You don't have to get watercooling for your computer to be dead silent. All you need are a couple of vantec stealths, a SLK-800 heatsink and a nexus fan controller.

But if you want watercooling, You can replace those 3 80mm 50dba fans with vantec stealths, and also get a nexus fan controller. Your temps will be fine and you'll have a dead silent computer.

BTW, if you don't care about performance, just silence, then the koolance prebuild isn't bad.

[Royal Oaks]

Agreed stealths own for silence. Also, there are products to sound proof your computer now a days. Get some of that crap that places sell and apply it to your case. I know you said that you dont want any hassle, but this is a cinch. Also, putting filters on the fans will help with the noise as well. You could go totally fanless in a WC environment, but I would imagine it would do more harm then good. Try the Koolance and some stealths, I think you will be happy. You also dont have to have all 3 fans on the koolance I would imagine. The reason they do have the 3 fans os for OC'ing, so I think 2 stealths would do the trick.

[WATYF]

Well,.. see... with the Koolance, I get an Antec case (nice) and a watercooling system all in one, and I can get it for just over 200. I'm thinkin' that isn't all that expensive.


I dunno. Every time I have to deal with cooling options it just makes me want to pull my hair out. I just want a quiet system, dang it!



I'll look into the Koolance stuff. Thanks for the input. Any other suggestions are more than welcome.


WATYF

[Kill-Switch]

You won't get dead silent by watercooling alone, or any other methods alone. There will always be noise from the Hard drive, CD-ROMS and the PSU, this can be negated to some extent by soudproofing the case which is really easy.

Oh, and if you want THE quietest option, got for a Vapochill system Rerigeration cooling is almost dead silent ... expensive, but really quite and your system temps will hit the floor.

[WATYF]

Originally posted by Kill-Switch
Oh, and if you want THE quietest option, got for a Vapochill system Rerigeration cooling is almost dead silent ... expensive, but really quite and your system temps will hit the floor.

daaaaaaaaaang...

That's some freaky stuff.

But 500 just for the case is a bit too much.


WATYF

[Soldier_Of_Evil]

1) The if you look on the specs of the fans that Swiftec uses for their QPower system, you will find they are 120mms with low output, thus they are very silent.

2) While with a koolance you do get an antec case, i would no recomend watercoolgin in an antec case. With the system in there, they are cramped as it is. With watercooling, it will be VERY cramped. I got one, and while i dont have watercoolign i can easily plan it out. BAD.

Meanwhile, Swiftec uses a VERY nice and big (mostly wide) case. The name escapes me now, but it is a great case with lots of room to work in and easy assembley.

3) Quality & Performance. However nice the Koolance may seem, it cannot hold a candle to Swiftecs products. For one, koolance's waterblock is a tiny piece of copper with a aclyric cap on it. Bleh. Swiftec's block have LONG since been one of the best and definately the BEST built blocks around.

4) Pump. Hell i dont even knwo what pump the koolance package supplies. Definately not one that watercoolers respect. Swiftec includes an Enheim pump, and you cant do much better than enheim these days (except for the new LP pumps, hich swiftec also uses now, but they stil ahve to be proven).

5) Video. I know koolance offers a watercolign solution to video as well, but i also heard it is not all that good. With the QPower you can opt to get either the MCW40 or the newer MCW50 block, both of which are great performers and will cool you video card allright.

5) HDD noise. As kill-switch mentioned, watercoolign will NOT help that. What you can do for that is either mount the HDD in a 5.25 inch bay using rubber washers, or get a premade solution...ill will dig it up later its name escapes me now as well.

6) Bleeding. Have you seen the bleeding solution on the swiftec? Pure blirriance. Nuff' said.

EDIT: On a side note, the case that is used to house the Vapochill system is the WORST CASE I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. From what i gather the case dosent even have rounded edges. Pfft.