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Can dual 80 rad = quiet?

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Pherret

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Ive got a bit of a dilema...

I want to watercool my shuttle with an external radbox bolted under the main case. Now my main goal for watercooling is to get rid of noise. I currently have an old beat up black Ice extreme 1x120 that I "referbished", but my problem is that if the rad box is 120mm+ tall then that brings the whole case up to about 12"... or around matx case size. Id like to maintain a short stature. So this brings me to the question:

Would it be reasonable to say that a dual 80mm rad (with quiet fans) would be able to cool a 6600gt and A64 3000+?

Judging by super low budget WC setups like this one seem to cool at near silent levels, and with the 6600gt puting minimal heat (looking at the pitiful heatsink) into the loop, the dual 80mm rad seems to be up to the task.

Now current temps Im dealing with are around 50 deg C with the fan beginning to kick up at the "safe" 55C temp. And Ive had cpus run fine 70C+ so that doesn't bother me much.

Any thoughts?
 
hmm.. not sure..

I ran a Swiftech 5002 (iirc?) and a L20 pump through a Thermochill HE80.1 80mm radiator on an Athlon XP2800+ CPU.

The fan ran at 7V and was silent and it worked as the computer was only used as a net and work machine and it worked perfectly, even handle bouts of CS fine for what the machine was.

But the thing it, temperatures were in the high 40s and low 50s at idle...

So my input, yes you probably can, but don't expect any decent temperatures you hear about in there forums as most people are running at least a single 120mm radiator, which is a lot more effecient at dissipatinf heat than a single (or even dual) 80mm radiator.
 
I'm running 2 single 80mm rads on mine and get about 28-30C idle and 44-48C load temps with them cooling my 2.4c @ 3.2ghz with 1.65 Vcore and my 6800nu running at 390 core with all the pipes unlocked.

I'm running just one fan on each rad and those are Coolermaster 80mm "Silent" LED fans at about 9v

Overall the fans aren't loud at all, my pump is the loudest thing in my rig until my cdrw drive spools up.
 
Thanks guys, thats about what I thought Id get, decent enough temps for my liking, nuthin spectacular by any stretch. Well maybe spectacular for silent 80mm fans ;)

It looks like Ill be running a modified Maze 4 ( :rolleyes: I know) and hand made GPU block with 1/2" tube and an L30 pump. Probably a bit more pump than I need for this application as it may be a tad noisy but I hope to baffel it somehow... or at least mount it on some dynamat.
 
Sounds neat, let us know how it goes. Especially be sure to post some pics of your homemade GPU block :D
 
Im sure you remember the worklog Erasmus354 ;)

Im still slowly puting together the materials and pieces as it will kind of be an all-round mod. Though with not much real moding to be honest. There are some things Im still not quite sure about, but am getting closer to the solutions rather quickly.

Id say the modifications to the maze 4 is curently going along more like a total overhaul of the ideology behind the design, and the look. So that may be something to look forward to. :cool:

Now the only problem is the closer to the holiday the less likely of recieving any ordered items in a timely fashion. So no mater what this may very well wait till after.
 
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