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can someone who's WC'ing savvy have a look at this please?

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its good, there is a Db1 PRO pump out that costs not too much more and performs better than the MCP655. search martinm's website for more. the rad is good but could be better, thermochill, feser and swiftech are the best.
for the fans yateloons are great if you are on a tight budget. d12SM i would say.
 

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I thought the only Yates that built enough static pressure were D12SL??
 
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its good, there is a Db1 PRO pump out that costs not too much more and performs better than the MCP655. search martinm's website for more. the rad is good but could be better, thermochill, feser and swiftech are the best.
for the fans yateloons are great if you are on a tight budget. d12SM i would say.

I chose that radiator because its cheap and aparently performs rather well . . . Im going to look the others up mind. :toast:
 
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I know this guy who has been making SFF cases for quite a while, perhaps if you ask him..;)

Hmm... I dunno, I kind of figured he might be a bit busy with 'other projects' ;)

Although, I would be willing to pay handsomely... which could in turn help fund certain aspects of aforementioned projects. :toast:

I'll work on getting a diagram drawn up with measurements and let you take a look at it. I think you already have an idea of what I have in mind... but I'll draw it up and we'll go from there.
 

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IDK

1/2 cpu/video cards. 3/8(Mountain dew) chipset then the tec.


What else should I do?


(2 9800gtx are going in as sli the 8800gt is staying in for vantage)
 

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IDK

1/2 cpu/video cards. 3/8(Mountain dew) chipset then the tec.


What else should I do?


(2 9800gtx are going in as sli the 8800gt is staying in for vantage)

o damulta what are we gonna do with you?
 
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damulta please do explain..:wtf:
 

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I thought the only Yates that built enough static pressure were D12SL??

uh? SL are low speed (1350rpm). they are quite silent and good on low speed rads. SM are medium speed (1600rpm), good noise/performance, build up more pressure. d12sh are the highest speed (1900rpm i think). quite noisy but downvolt very good and are very good on thin radiators. the best fan tests that you can find on the net are made by Vapor at xtremesystems, just google it and you should find the 3 tests he did. they are very helpful and interesting. Yates come out to be among the best fans, and they cost a fraction of the others!
 

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oh okay - in one of the fan compilation tests vapor ranked it lower than the SL for the reason I gave...I might have remembered it wrong...sorry man
 

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oh I remember why - being from the UK according to Vapor I'd need to order some PTS Yates stateside...unless someone knows if the difference has been sorted out..
 

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http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=78174

This is the other part.

Is my idea bad? It's just the start:)

A rough build of what I want to do. I might paint it and everything LOL.



Whats wrong with it/?

Both are the high end black ice.

Both rip out a ton of heat


The 120 up from goes to MT to the chipset, then to the tec on the video card that also has a phase on it. That will be the physics card(8800gt) The back to the pump and 120. The dual will go CPU and 2 two 9800GTX and back up again.

I was thinking about making a top then I dont know.....




Also thinnking about spray painting my 790i with white plastic spray paint lol
 

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Also thinnking about spray painting my 790i with white plastic spray paint lol

I wouldnt, it will spoil the look of the rest of the case.:)
 

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oh I remember why - being from the UK according to Vapor I'd need to order some PTS Yates stateside...unless someone knows if the difference has been sorted out..

mh, from what i've heard at XS, PTS is the only shop actually carries the good yates. with other shops you can get good and bad yates. There is a controversial about that, Petra says they have called YateLoon, and that they (YL) said the only resellers they have in the US is Petra itself. So, since Jabtech, PPCS and other's fans are different in the motor, in the plastics, and even in the leds, someone suggested that the bad yates could be fake, since the guys at YateLoon seem to know nothing about them. Sorry for the long Out of Topic ;)
 

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now to find the orange/black yates I like in PTS range, which they don't do :cry: thanks anyway Odin - do you think UK suppliers are also tainted with these supposed fakes?
the ones I want are clicky
 
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I wouldnt, it will spoil the look of the rest of the case.:)

Don't tell me that hell it's not in a case half the time LOL

White with black marker traces all over would be sweet

Click that link above and that is how my pc is most of the time. On a tray

I wouldnt, it will spoil the look of the rest of the case.:)


does up above look like shit?
 

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I dunno if I like it or hate it...it's ...it's

yours...:D
 

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now to find the orange/black yates I like in PTS range, which they don't do :cry: thanks anyway Odin - do you think UK suppliers are also tainted with these supposed fakes?
the ones I want are clicky

i've read that orange yates arent of the same quality of the PTS ones, but, heck, dont take my word like it was the Bible :p. The only thing possible to know if they are good or not is to try them out. however, even if they arent as good as the PTS ones, they shouldnt be that bad, and for the price its still a bargain. Are you looking for orange fans? I always suggest xigmatek's ones with white leds. they are ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and push some good amount of air at decent noise. In EU you can find them for about 5,50€ (http://www2.hardwareversand.de/2VQ62vWZ05_jK6/articledetail.jsp?aid=23773&agid=42), so in the UK it shouldnt be too much more than the yate you listed
 

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Are you looking for orange fans? I always suggest xigmatek's ones with white leds. they are ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and push some good amount of air at decent noise. In EU you can find them for about 5,50€ (http://www2.hardwareversand.de/2VQ62vWZ05_jK6/articledetail.jsp?aid=23773&agid=42), so in the UK it shouldnt be too much more than the yate you listed

I guess at their price I can afford to try out the orange yate..sigh, I don't really like buying unnecessarily :laugh:
and yeah I am, but then I don't particularly want LEDs..unless I mod them to orange somehow.. *slap self* lol

I've bought black Xigmatek fans before and although I didn't have a fan controller they pushed a lot of air..couldn't tell how noisy they were by themselves..they were £2 more than the yates are on the site I linked however!

I'm well and truly undecided now - every time I try to think it over I end up muddled :ohwell:
 

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would I get better silent performance buying some Ultra Kazes' and running them at ~5v?

choice goes either
Yate SM-12s, testing UK/US suppliers in the process
Xigmatek, I see what the Xig fans I have can do (isolating their noise so I know how much they are to blame this time)
Deltas, lol out of stock atm but I can wait
or the Ultra Kazes'...

what do I do :cry: I just want decent silent performance...and that would mean lower volts yes..
 

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I'd say possibly the ultra kazes, on a fan controller.
Undervolt for quiet, but still gives you the option of pushing air if you need it.

Another option is the Zalmans. Apparently a good rad fan that is fairly quiet when undervolted.
I often use them.
 

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I'd say possibly the ultra kazes, on a fan controller.
Undervolt for quiet, but still gives you the option of pushing air if you need it.

Another option is the Zalmans. Apparently a good rad fan that is fairly quiet when undervolted.
I often use them.

kazes are good, but personally if you dont wanna put them in a rad setup they are not worth it in my opinion. for the looks, i would go xig, but if you only look for performance, zm-f3s from vapor's tests came out to be the best fans, and they are pretty quiet too if undervolted
 

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Umm, off topic, but does someone have the link to vapor's reviews?
 

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