Watercooling a shuttle

[AdamAdsy]

Im hoping to buy an nforce2 shuttle case the moment they come out with an XP2700 cpu and a radion 9700.

I want this computer to be completely silent so i thought about making it fanless with water cooling. The setup would be something like:

pump -->
splitter -->
cpu
chipset
graphics card gpu
graphics card memory
psu -->
reverse splitter -->
large radiator -->
pump.

Does this sound like it will work? There will be no overclocking, i could even underclock to keep the system stable.

The radiator will most likely be placed to cover the whole top of the case but there will be no resevoir.

[DocEvi1]

why pray are you going to buy a shuttle nforce board and then put a raedon 9700 in? If you are wanting to make it ultra-quiet water-cooling is the way to go, but you are going to need a case WAY bigger than the crappy little shuttle cases....

Stefan

[stix_kua]

yeah...get a bigger case and make the system nice...so you can be proud but I like ur idea...ahhh, the power of H20...:D

[genesound]

1. AdamAdsy where would you hope to put all the h20 hardware in a Shuttle case? Kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?

2. DocEvi1 what's crappy about the little Shuttle cases? I'm serious here, I think it'd be great to have relatively portable real power that's not a laptop, (have 1.7G P4 Toshiba laptop) and am considering one of these. I want something I can pack in carry-on, I fly a lot. If you have some input I'd appreciate it.

:t :t

[DocEvi1]

2) nothing, in relation to water-cooling the cases are crappy. I quite like the way they work and indeed the look of them. I nearly bought one for one of the teachers at work....

Stefan

[genesound]

Oh, OK Stefan, yeah I'm really interested in them. I wish they'd make an iddy biddy rack mount version of it. Most of the rack mount cases are way too deep for my liking, and just don't have all the provisions that the Shuttle mini's do.

I think for H2O I'd be pretty tempted to buy a pre-built case solution.

[DocEvi1]

zup

Stefan

[Giblet Plus!]

I'd change one thing for sure - Don't use splitters. Put everything in series, so you keep your flow rate.

Another thing is you don't need northbridge or video memory blocks. Passive cooling is fine there. Water cooling a psu is difficult, and it would require a larger radiator than you'll have room for.

Since that case is so small, you might have to use one of the "black ice micros" since a heatercore or reg. black ice won't fit.

The water-cooling forum here might be more helpful than sysopt:
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/

Sounds like a fun project. :)

[Giblet Plus!]

Oh, a question:

Are you planning on buying the sff nforce 2 motherboard and the shuttle case together, or just the motherboard?

Your idea would work a lot better if you made a custom case.