Originally posted by XanthosNZDon't look at me, I've got a Russian-technological-revolution-built fan, with more pipes on it than a spider's got legs. I'm perfectly happy with air-cooling.
For that to be true you would have to running bleeding edge stuff at a large overclock. For one buying bleeding edge is a bad plan in terms of value for money anyway (if you look at the graphs on the guide I posted you'll see why, you pay a huge premium for maybe a few percent improvement). For another water cooling is expensive in and of itself. Well expe ...[text shortened]... s then you are wasting your money as the system could easily be run cheaper using aircooling.
Originally posted by gambit3More Space. If you really really wanted to you could set them up in an array so you have much less chance of losing your data (don't do this, it's stupid).
What are the pros and or cons of having two or more hard drives? Some of the gaming computers I have looked at have offered up to four hard drives.
Originally posted by XanthosNZIt would be stupid in that the data on gaming comps wouldn't be worth it to go the raid route. If you are running a company with financial data, raid would be worth it. BTW, overclocking is only a stopgap measure, you can't for instance, double the speed of the processor with overclocking. Processors advance too rapidly to spend a lot of money on water cooled rigs when 6 months later someone comes out with a processor faster than the overclocked monster you just bought.
More Space. If you really really wanted to you could set them up in an array so you have much less chance of losing your data (don't do this, it's stupid).
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Another point is that there is nothing wrong with having a spare hard drive to store valuable files on. Hard drives do have a limited life span and do go @POING@ eventually. It would only be a fool who didn't implement some kind of contingency plan, in case the worse case scenario occured. What media a person uses, is down to them, be it DVD, online or a spare HDD. 😛
Originally posted by jimslyp69darn right! i have an acer laptop, and i decided that my files were not precious enough to store in the 10G backup partition. at christmas i got a virus that didn't let me start up my computer and so forced me to reformat my hard drive, and in the process loose all my files. (i didn't have enough time to do it the slow way, thus saving the data. and it (the data) wasn't thatprecious. just a bit precious...).
Another point is that there is nothing wrong with having a spare hard drive to store valuable files on. Hard drives do have a limited life span and do go @POING@ eventually. It would only be a fool who didn't implement some kind of contingency plan, in case the worse case scenario occured. What media a person uses, is down to them, be it DVD, online or a spare HDD. 😛
i dislike viruses intently...
Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveHow much quieter are water cooled units? I asked because my studio machine, recording audio, needs to be very very quiet if it is to be in the same room as the microphones. Modern mikes and mixers and mike preamps are exremely quiet and can pick up a termite fart from 50 paces🙂 I use a dell which is pretty quiet for an air cooled box but it is still too noisy to have near the mikes. So I drilled a 5 cm hole in the baseboard and put the box on the other side of the wall in the hallway so the recording room is as quiet as it can get in my noisy house. It is still a pain in the butt to walk clear around a 10 meter room and back again just to put in a CD to mix down the latest recordings. It would be nice if I could have the box in the same room. So do you think water cooling would be quiet enough for that?
They run more quietly.
And they are more efficient.
Originally posted by sonhouseI would think having it isolated the way you have would be the best way if the mics are very sensitive. They would probably also be able to pick up the hard drive noise if it was closer, I guess.
Modern mikes and mixers and mike preamps are exremely quiet and can pick up a termite fart from 50 paces🙂
Could you not somehow wire up the cd/dvd externally so that it could be inside too? [but even they make noise so.....😕 ]
Originally posted by sonhouseNo it won't. I did hear rumours of a water pump capable of litres per minute without moving parts (and therefore next to no noise) but I don't think it's on the market yet.
How much quieter are water cooled units? I asked because my studio machine, recording audio, needs to be very very quiet if it is to be in the same room as the microphones. Modern mikes and mixers and mike preamps are exremely quiet and can pick up a termite fart from 50 paces🙂 I use a dell which is pretty quiet for an air cooled box but it is still too no ...[text shortened]... uld have the box in the same room. So do you think water cooling would be quiet enough for that?
There are sites out there that deal just with the noise aspect of computers. If you look around you'll find some passive way to cool your computer (assuming it's not some high powered bar heater computer).