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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #40 on: June 23, 2004, 10:49:36 pm
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Back on-topic, though - that's probably the best case mod I've ever seen! Actually original and interesting, rather than a load of leds and fluorescent tubing.


Indeed, it actually looks industry-grade.

Re the off-topic discussion, wasn't there some talk about coolers that did cooling through electrical cooling or somesuch? Whatever happened to them?
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #41 on: June 26, 2004, 05:34:47 pm
That'd be Peltier cooling, aka thermoelectric cooling. Runs through sending current through two dissimilar conductors. That's about the 4th level up in cooling, you'll find it on high-end water and incredibly high-end air. Problem with it is that it can push the limit of your PSU, unless it runs off of an external power supply. Most people tend to skip right past it to phase change cooling.

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2. Active Air (fans)
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4. TEC Water
5. Phase change cooling (Prometia, Vapochill, etc.)
6. Phase change cascades (the very top of the line)
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #42 on: June 27, 2004, 08:48:43 pm
This is kind of cool, just for the amount of stuff they managed to fit into this SFF case....

http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?name=The_Snarf&page=pics
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Reply #43 on: June 27, 2004, 11:54:35 pm
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Originally posted by kasperl
Are you using watercooling?

And LAN partys might not be the only issue. Just a small tear in some tube might kill a very expensive system.


It's called copper tubing and you affix it by soldering.  Saves space and looks cool.  I'll probably do something like this with my next box.
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Reply #44 on: June 27, 2004, 11:56:50 pm
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This is kind of cool, just for the amount of stuff they managed to fit into this SFF case....

http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?name=The_Snarf&page=pics


Geez. Just another reason to regret buying a miniATX board, I guess. :p

I've actually been having some suspected cooling problems recently, too bad I don't have the cash for anything but another fan.
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Reply #45 on: June 29, 2004, 05:36:46 pm
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That's my beef with watercooling too. The reason why I may end up with it in my PC is because I can't seem to find a decently quiet air cooling system... all the ones we've tried so far have been deafening. :no:


I just got this in a package for my new computer... I'll tell you how it goes once I get the motherboard and HDDs. :D
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #46 on: June 29, 2004, 07:14:33 pm
If that's the part that I believe it is, I've heard decent things about it. Performance is a bit lower than the Thermalright parts though, and the Zalman will still be quieter.
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Reply #47 on: June 30, 2004, 02:17:12 am
Yeah, but you can control it - dial it up to 4000 rpm for best cooling (better than Thermalright IIRC), or dial it down to 2000 rpm for extra-quiet 35db noise levels (ambient room noise hovering around 32db in one review I read).
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #48 on: June 30, 2004, 03:47:05 pm
I can't quite remember who's ahead (the SP-94 or the Gigabyte, it was quite close), but the Zalman is quieter.
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