Been doing quite a bit of research on this. I am not looking to buy a silent
PC from a vendor. I want to use my current computer and overclock it and
silence it. Seems that the overclocking would point me towards a liquid
cooled system. I suspect the fanless Zalman coolers would not be enough. Is
that true? I have an Athlon XP 1900 for what it is worth. Perhaps at that
speed the Zalman would be ok for overclocking?

I came across a site called www.koolance.com They make cases with the liquid
cooler for pretty good prices. In fact if you look at www.liquiddaw.com it
appears they are using the same cooler that koolance uses.

Just wondering what people have had success with before I order stuff. Man I
would love to just go with an Enermax PSU, a Zalman cooler, and be done with
it. But my desire to overclock seems to be the major factor...

Also, I am not looking at an anal-retentive degree of silencing. Just
something pretty damn good.


thanks in advance,

-brian

"Brian Huether" wrote in
:

Been doing quite a bit of research on this. I am not looking to buy a
silent PC from a vendor. I want to use my current computer and
overclock it and silence it. Seems that the overclocking would point
me towards a liquid cooled system. I suspect the fanless Zalman
coolers would not be enough. Is that true? I have an Athlon XP 1900
for what it is worth. Perhaps at that speed the Zalman would be ok for
overclocking?

I came across a site called www.koolance.com They make cases with the
liquid cooler for pretty good prices. In fact if you look at
www.liquiddaw.com it appears they are using the same cooler that
koolance uses.

Just wondering what people have had success with before I order stuff.
Man I would love to just go with an Enermax PSU, a Zalman cooler, and
be done with it. But my desire to overclock seems to be the major
factor...

Also, I am not looking at an anal-retentive degree of silencing. Just
something pretty damn good.


thanks in advance,

-brian



At current Athlon XP prices, would it not be cheaper to go with a faster
CPU & use the Zalman?

Good point! It is easy to take for granted how cheap "outdated" cpus can be,
and I certainly don't need the fastest thing out there.

-brian

"Mike" wrote in message
...
"Brian Huether" wrote in
:

Been doing quite a bit of research on this. I am not looking to buy a
silent PC from a vendor. I want to use my current computer and
overclock it and silence it. Seems that the overclocking would point
me towards a liquid cooled system. I suspect the fanless Zalman
coolers would not be enough. Is that true? I have an Athlon XP 1900
for what it is worth. Perhaps at that speed the Zalman would be ok for
overclocking?

I came across a site called www.koolance.com They make cases with the
liquid cooler for pretty good prices. In fact if you look at
www.liquiddaw.com it appears they are using the same cooler that
koolance uses.

Just wondering what people have had success with before I order stuff.
Man I would love to just go with an Enermax PSU, a Zalman cooler, and
be done with it. But my desire to overclock seems to be the major
factor...

Also, I am not looking at an anal-retentive degree of silencing. Just
something pretty damn good.


thanks in advance,

-brian



At current Athlon XP prices, would it not be cheaper to go with a faster
CPU & use the Zalman?

In article writes:

Good point! It is easy to take for granted how cheap "outdated" cpus can be,
and I certainly don't need the fastest thing out there.

Well, if you're going to be using it for audio, you will need today's
fastest thing out there tomorrow, which will come sooner than you
expect. But you don't have to go to liquid cooling and overclocking to
achieve it. A reliable air-cooled system running at its rated clock
speed should hold you for a couple of weeks.

It's up to you, though, to decide what's going to be reliable, and
what will work with your software, your hardware, and its drivers.
That's the scary part when you're making all the choices. There are
probably fewer ways to go wrong today than there were a couple of
years ago, but I know that if there's something I could do wrong, I'd
find it, whether it's in picking the wrong mother board, graphics
board, or setting something up incorrectly in the OS because I don't
understand the choices (assuming I get any).




--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

Brian,
Send Scott an e-mail (www.liquiddaw.com) he will send you in the right
direction concerning performance and low noise specs...I know he would just
give you the advice for free...
-Nick


"Brian Huether" wrote in message
...
Good point! It is easy to take for granted how cheap "outdated" cpus can
be,
and I certainly don't need the fastest thing out there.

-brian

"Mike" wrote in message
...
"Brian Huether" wrote in
:

Been doing quite a bit of research on this. I am not looking to buy a
silent PC from a vendor. I want to use my current computer and
overclock it and silence it. Seems that the overclocking would point
me towards a liquid cooled system. I suspect the fanless Zalman
coolers would not be enough. Is that true? I have an Athlon XP 1900
for what it is worth. Perhaps at that speed the Zalman would be ok for
overclocking?

I came across a site called www.koolance.com They make cases with the
liquid cooler for pretty good prices. In fact if you look at
www.liquiddaw.com it appears they are using the same cooler that
koolance uses.

Just wondering what people have had success with before I order stuff.
Man I would love to just go with an Enermax PSU, a Zalman cooler, and
be done with it. But my desire to overclock seems to be the major
factor...

Also, I am not looking at an anal-retentive degree of silencing. Just
something pretty damn good.


thanks in advance,

-brian



At current Athlon XP prices, would it not be cheaper to go with a faster
CPU & use the Zalman?