About the adventures of the media center in the new entry - just about the current Setup,. For two years I was the holder of the housing Silverstone LC-10, silver in color and frame sizes legitimate home theater with a real event. 9 kg of metal. For this album bought for allegro Asus, the new power supply, and the rest of the guts of old (because in case the shuttle has already rocking brand new Via Epia). Set acted while in such a setup, replaced the fan on the Zalman on the card (much quieter) but was still far from ideal. In addition to power supply (which is slowly air we've had 12-centrymetrowym fan and busily throwing them out) was still on the pair graduates with heatpipe heatsink to the processor, and a fan inlet ...
After displaying a bit faster, and definitely warmer Prock HT 3.2 (no damage because it guts and slabs, and power always need more) and replacing the X1950 XT graphics (including together without a tuner, it's hard, but Rainbow Six Vegas without it did not want to move:)), it became clear that housing is getting a tad ciepławo. While the council gave 2.4 at 50 degrees under stress, for the 3.2 70 degrees was not too great. The wall on the back of the computer was one of the most heated walls in the area.
As it turned out, saved the situation ... power supply fan, wypompowujący heat from inside. Unluckily, that the power supply first victim of the struggle for peace - somehow at the end of last year I mentioned it on the 450W version of the Silverstone Night Jar. Zero moving parts, protected static heat radiators, the silence from the power supply.
When the fan ran out of power - the air in the cabinet stood in one place. Housing is not a work of art when it comes to cooling (warm air has a tendency to resort to the mountains, not to the rear of the enclosure, even urged by two wentylatorkami), but in these conditions definitely did not give advice. Suffice it to say that the max hours H.264 Thermal shutdown resulted. 100 degrees was not really a feat.
After a two-three months of tweaking and building wind tunnels for air decided to take serious steps, specifically in the direction of a friend already shop with accessories for cooling. Prepared as never before (Figure enclosure with dimensions and heights of elements) I started thinking of two options: a really quiet air cooling involving the modification of the cabinet (a hole etc.) Or the previously uncharted water-cooling, involving mainly the visions of puddles under the cupboard .. .
After 15 minutes of conversation with the guys from the store (cooling.pl, greet) I decided on a hydraulic option:) In addition to the CPU cooling system I decided to turn the graphics, and cooler - to throw out.
In short, the system consists of two blocks of water-Polish manufacturer of MNP on the CPU and graphics, a small and very quiet pump with a small reservoir expansion, 3 meters of tubing and cooler with two fans niesłyszalnymi (12 cm, 900 rpm).
Below - photostory of the installation:)
Submission Agreement took me almost three hours, due to the measuring tube in the air and attempt to install high-speed connectors (if they are fast, I shudder to think about content.) Hint 1: The tubes are significantly more likely to cooperate after being heated in hot water. Hint 2: Murphy's Law applies to a length of pipe cut to size.
underneath the CPU and graphics unit, the tube has already flooded and taken outside to the cooler.
system during the filling of the reservoir pump set to the left, above the rest of the components. Getting rid of the remnants of air - especially with the cooler - 20 minutes shaking and tilting. Guts have not yet installed.
CPU block already in place. Screws as the Polish construction little subtle, but effective. Laying Pipe - nightmare.
graphics card already in place, basically the end of installation, the tube is almost sorted. In the background of power - the perpetrator of the confusion about all the extra guts.
view of the whole mess from the air - basically everything already in place. The hard disk hidden under the DVD drive, a basket on drives removed because disturbed graphics card. Cables and tubes, arranged with the greatest possible care as the third morning.
And finally, proper cooling - cooler, plus two lazy fans hooked on the extended cable from the CD.
And finally, proper cooling - cooler, plus two lazy fans hooked on the extended cable from the CD. 
Conclusions:
- is quiet! interferes only hard drive (SSD zabudżetował already:))
- water in the system is a little heat, a processor with 90 before the water went down to 40 under stress
- motherboard, unfortunately, a little worse, radiator warms northbridge'u it to 55 -60 degrees - there is room for adding another block (though frankly I do not want to do)
- cooler hidden behind a cupboard with a computer - out of sight, out of mind
- impossible to play back and encode movies. `
And last: I decide not to continue unless exchange (board, processor, graphics). Cushion the equipment until natural death, and then ... probably buy myself a Mac Mini and PS3.
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