the mats are good

maybe just putting it away from your roomate :)


wait until you get to college though maybe he will blow you away (pun intended) maybe he will be a geek

you are going to a tech college arent you????

just sell your loud stuff get quiet stuff




or.



go work a lot more and get your own apartment :)

no point in putting in mats if you are going to have the side panel open

i would close it if you want mats


and thermaltake aquarius 2 sux big time
not worth the money, it has a lot of problems

definately Innovatek, DangerDen, Swiftech, or Koolance

HydroCool200 from Corsair is too loud from what i heard

jeez evil


the reason he has the side off is to show his config

and where stuff to quiet down can go

its off just for the pic !!!

:lol: good point.. i thought that was a little weird but didn't wanna say anything.

well just happened that you both dont read much

Alright. I've been doing a lot of reading over the past few days, thanks to some tips from you guys.

Then, I talked to a guy I know, who might be selling me a lightly used Maze 3 kit. He said he'd include some [Brand-name] 600 pump, that's rated around 200 GPH. He also has a 110W peltier, and a pure silver coldblock, that I might pick up as well (although the silver coldblock was custom-made, so he said would be like, $50 or something). I don't care much about power consumption, so my primary concerns would be ease of setup and maintenance. Some people mention condensation as a problem with peltiers; would this be a problem with a fairly low-watt peltier like this, in conjunction with a coldblock?


[Note: I leave the side panel off my computer primarily due to lazyness. I took it off a long time ago to get at someting inside my computer (I think it was to hook up a USB 2.0 header), and never got around to puting it back on. It's been pretty convenient to have it off, though, because I've been messing around with hard drives, and such, since then.]

uh oh
peltier is a power draining whore so watch out

you might need another PSU for the peltier...

i dont think your 450w can handle it
there are also PSU's specifically for peltiers that can be added to a working system

i really dont think its necessary at all to get a peltier unless you are doing hardcore overclocking

seriously, watercooling is good enough already for a hard push for OC
unless the Maze3 block he is selling you is a premodded from dangerden that has a pelt on it which i doubt so

umm, yeah, peltiers get freakin cold, you should always worry about condensation. I assume that most come with an environment monitor to make sure it doesn't cool below the condensation point. however, this is a REALLY BAD assumption. do be careful

I did some looking, and I determined that my HSF is the Vantec CCK-6040. According to MBM5, it runs around 6,100 RPM, and cools my CPU to about 131 F, 55 C (motherboard temp reads at 109 F, 43 C, for reference).

I'm thinking that I'll take the guy up on the offer for the kit, but without the peltier and coldblock.

150 F, 66 C, are the processor temperatures under load, with the current HSF.