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Terminal Boredom
07-13-2003, 04:00 AM
Well, this may be off topic a little bit, but it works pretty well.

I OC the shit out of my machines, an run liquid cooling. The fans for the radiator/heat exchanger tend to be loud as shit. I took my case apart and sprayed it with the rubber undercoating for cars and it dropped the noise noticeably. It probably retains a bit more heat this way, but I have spare cooling capacity so....

Anyway I hope this helps someone.
adamp2p
07-13-2003, 04:20 AM
If you have the dough, get water cooling. B)
Terminal Boredom
07-13-2003, 12:14 PM
I've got it already. Plus I'm running a peltier on the CPU and the Video card with a waterblock on each.
the_faceman
07-13-2003, 02:23 PM
just a question, but if you are overclocking so much that you need to buy lots of extra cooling equipment, and have to put up with lots more noise as a result of this, and run the risk of damaging parts and invalidating warranties, is it really worth all the hassle and the extra cost? would it be cheaper just buying higher spec hardware? But then i guess if you got higher spec stuff, you'd want to OC it even higher anyways.

My PC runs as fast as i need it to, and it's as quiet as a mouse. I can understand people wanting to tweak a little extra juice out of their machine, but not if they need to hook up the fridge-freezer to the case, and wear the ear-protector things those dudes on airport runways wear just to use the damn PC.
MediaSlayer
07-13-2003, 05:58 PM
my hewlitt packard cd-r/rw drive is loud as f*ck when it spins at those high speeds. Can anyone recommend a drive that spins fast(like 32x) and doesn't sound like a vibrational circus?
chalkmongoose
07-14-2003, 01:46 AM
Originally posted by MediaSlayer@13 July 2003 - 17:58
my hewlitt packard cd-r/rw drive is loud as f*ck when it spins at those high speeds. Can anyone recommend a drive that spins fast(like 32x) and doesn't sound like a vibrational circus?
That's odd as hell. I got a Plextor that does 48 (24 with rewrite) and is "quiet as a mouse." Your CD drive shouldn't sound like the circus you have mentioned...
adamp2p
07-14-2003, 06:01 AM
What are the specs of your ocd machine anyways?
Terminal Boredom
07-17-2003, 07:41 AM
120 gig striped Raid
2 gig Rimmbus ram (800 mhz)
P4 at 4.561 Ghz
Geforce 4 128 med ddr 266
32x cd-rw
21" Sun Monitor
Bose surround system
Wireless keyboard/mouse
SOYO gateway (bluetooth enabled)