Heya
 
K I think its time for me to do it. I'm sick and tired of that little piece of %£"%"£ being the loudest fan in my case out of all 15 fans I got there. Is there any replacement fan I could use ? Or does any1 make water block for it?
 
I remember reading on this forum that some1 was making blocks for it...
 
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Wicked thanks ! So i guess the only way to get quiet out of this is to go water then right?
 
Are there any 3-5 bay (dvd one) water pumps and so on that I could install inside my xigmatec elysium? I never used water... I'd like to make it as compact as possible...
 
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Will water be even good option for me since I run 24/7 at 100% cpu ? Its workstation/render farm...

No, I hear that this fan should go as fast as It can when I oc my xeons from 2.4 ghz to 3.8... Or my chipset will burn... 
 
Which  jfan controlls it ?
 
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Edit if water I guess I could go for one of those 1 http://www.thermaltakeusa...C=1444&I=2058,1616 + the one bit from the guy on this forum...

These
 
http://koolance.com/index...25&product_id=1174

http://koolance.com/index...7_125&product_id=2

You can build a loop with or without a reservoir, when it's reservoir-less you need a T line to pour water into the system. In the case of the reservoir, you open it, pour water in there and cap it once the system is "full". Usually reservoirs are put apart from the pump, connected by tubing, but someone thought it'd save space if the pump connected directly to the reservoir. So instead of buying a pump and a "body" for it (which are prettier and allow you to use G1/4 fittings), you use a reservoir with the body for the pump directly built in.
 
Following that trend, I think there are even some radiators now with pumps in them haha :).

I run my rig 24/7 except when I'm away for longer than 2 days or rebooting. A Pump is no different than a fan is terms if it stopped working.
So if you want silence, pick up a set of blocks from Nate, get a Pump/Reservoir, and a 240mm Radiator designed for silent operation and you should be good.
Leak testing is good, but honestly, 24 hours is way to long I think. I used to test for 6 hours, I don't even test anymore. I have built over half a dozen loops and have only had one leak. That was because I didn't get a fitting screwed in all the way and I missed it when I went over everything before powering it up. So as long as you are careful, you should have zero issues.

There are ways to watch the chipset temps. mine never got over 50c at 3.8, but my fan was I think at 80%, the default if that what it is.
The cooler the better, but I'm pretty sure its good to about 70c without any problems.
Personally I would just lower the fan speed to 70, 60, 50% and test at each to see how its does on temps at full load.
Doesn't cost anything to try and could get the sound level down to where you want it without extreme water or to high temps.
I'd shoot for a 60c temp on the chipset if I wanted a quiter system, so reduce fan to what ever can keep it in that range.

I have decided to go with air cooling to avoid the high cost of the liquid cooling. Big heatsinks on CPU's can perform more than enough, another heatsink on VGA does the job. My CPU heatsink perform very well and do not cost more than a CPU water block. With liquid cooling, one still has to buy radiators, pumps, reservoir, tubes and other necessary parts.
  The only problematic part with air cooling is the motherboard chipsets as mentioned here. There are four chipsets under that large yet flat heatsink. Thermalright has various chopsets cooler that are made off-centered. These tall heatsinks that are needed for efficient cooling may still interfere with the installed cards; in particular if installed on the two chips that are very close to the PCI-E slots.

Who is going to make that chipset heatsink? I would have bought one if there was available though I don't see any use for the little fan to still running.
 
 

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to subscribe to the post. 
 
My plan would be to keep it simple, and use the same template cutout that I already have for my waterblock.  Then, To use multiple fans like here in this thread:
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=887470
 
Not sure how many fans to use (could fit probably 4 easily), but this will still be superior to the factory heatsink.  The factory heatsink is not pure copper.  In fact I don't remember any part of it being copper, but its been a while since I touched the factory heatsink. 
 
The only question, is to make a thin plate like the P67 block with slots around the chip, or to make the entire plate with lots of fins.  It is entirely up to you, but it still looks like a fun project.  The thin plate with the slots cutout (like P67 block) will be less expensive, but the thicker plate with more fins might perform better.  Hard to say at this point. 

Heya
 
I think it we would need to discuss it a bit more in private but sign me in for it - any idea on price +/-?
 
As long as it has good performance and I cant hear it I'm up for it :)

Yea that the thing... I need it to run quiet but also to run 24/7 with my xeons oc at 195 block.... its render station

Heya
 
I will use more than 1 GPU - im already using 2... So it has to work with multiple GPU...
 
I dont want to use waterblock...
 
At the end of the day do you think there is a good solution for air colling that I can use here or only big/noisy?

Right then, so lets get it rolling, as long as it will be cold and quiet I'm all in.

Uhh well if we cant get it to be quiet then there is no point to changing the stock one hehe :)