Hi, i would like to have a silent system... currently using 3.0Ghz Prescott P4 processor...
I'm thinking of getting those WC Kit which is less than rm300, but i've got to know from previous topic whereby it is not as good as it claim.
Can some sifu advice, which 1 should i go for? WC Kit or air cooling cpu fan? Please let me know which brand to get as well.
Thanks in advance.

get AC freezer 7 around rm110..good aftermarket cooler and it is silent. if want to go for water cooling you need to spend much money...go for air cooling better since your budget not much..but you post in wrong section ..should be in hardware Q n A section

I'd go fanless air-cooling.

WC also use fan la....

Fanless air cooling is great but the one i bought had a heatsink too big for my casing!!

Cheap water cooling is not the way to go!!

go for AC Freezer...

Go for a after market HSF which has the fan control let you choose lower fan speed, for silent.

Example, Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

okok... many thanks... i'm now browsing through on ACF7 on the net... now i just need to figure out whether it will fit on a middleheight tower or not...
do i need to get anything else? other than the heatsink fan?

Just curious, can the Artic Cooling Freezer 7/64 pro fan being control to lower down the speed?

yes,
900RPM to 2500RPM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16835186134

u wanna control the fan for wat??? the fan is already damn silent even at its full speed (which isnt much).

seriously....silence = AC Freezer 7/64 Pro

previously i use Scythe Ninja, running fanless. damn nice.

too bad now it can't fit P35 boards. so I'm using S-963 with fan speed lowered to a minimal, almost no noise or at least covered by other noise but provide decent air-flow to cool the processor.

Hmmm, I had compared the noise level with the tuniq tower 120, seems like the noise level for Arctic was double the noise of the tuniq.
But still concern about the weight of the tuniq tower.... will it break the AM2 mobo??

if it will break the mobo, it won't be on sale in the first place.

as for the noise level, you can always connect the fan to a fan controller (rheostat like device) to adjust the RPM to an acceptable noise-level.

all the 120mm fans and the 92mm fan on heatsink of my machine are connected to fan controller. i spent some time testing out the RPM combo for the exhaust and the heatsink fan to achieve acceptable minimal noise level while not sacrificing air-flow / cooling ability.

Cool, you must be doing a lots of testing around

Thanks for clearing my doubt, I guess will proceed to the Tuniq tower 120 as it came with the fan controller. Thanks again


This post has been edited by cvshi515: Jan 3 2008, 03:02 PM

bro, would i really need to apply additional thermal compound with ACF7, from the product spec it seems that the heatsink already have a coated MX1 compound?

it's good enough.

how about evercool buffalo? seems promising as that of acf7...