clintfan
Location: USA
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 Posted - Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:16 pm
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I'm planning my new PC, and have finally selected just about everything I want, except a case to put it all in, and the cooling.
Just how does one choose a case? I know I need an ATX mid-tower or tower to fit the drives, and it won't be inside a studio, but beyond that how do you choose from amongst the hundreds of cases that are probably available? Seems such a daunting task, I haven't figured out how to start (but I also tend to overanalyze). Who's got a good website, maybe with detailed photos of the insides?
And what's the deal with water cooling for a CPU? Naturally a forum search turned up last December's joke thread --water, methanol, gas, etc.-- ROFL but no real help. Is it all about fan noise? Because if so, don't you still have (1)one or two fans in the power supply, (2)a fan on the chipset, (3)a fan on the water cooler radiator, and (4)potentially aother fan for the hard disks or etc.?
Tonight I spent hours dredging the web for CPU blowers to use instead of fans, expecting that blowers would be quieter. But with only a couple non-1U exceptions, there don't seem to be many blowers out there designed to cool the latest P4 processors. I'll be cooking a 2.8GHz P4 in there, so I do need serious cooling.
So to sum it up, I recognize that unless I cool the CPU right, I'll fry it right off the bat. Constant fan sounds annoy me, quiet would be nicer. Blowers don't seem to be very available. Yet I have trouble justifying water plumbing vs. a CPU fan: when there would already be so many other fans in there, what's one more?
Comments welcome,  thanks--
-clintfan
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