The Mess Hall

I've just spent on my PC:
£233 - mobo and 8 core bulldozer
£80 - watercooling for said CPU (was upto 60c on full load, now its 38c)
£40 - case to fit it all in
£40 - 8gb ram total 12gb

total just shy of £400

Turn on my PS3 and play a couple of rounds of BF3 - Ps3 over heats, fans sound like an Apache taking off.

lol @ apache.

How u getting on with the water cooling?
My mate had that corsair one you were on about and said it had a horrible noise to it due to the voltage and air bubbles... which he had to fix..

there is a little bubbling noise, nothing major. but there is a problem with the impeller ceramic bearings causing a lot of noise from the CPU block. A fix is in production from corsair

Symonator wrote:lol @ apache.

How u getting on with the water cooling?
My mate had that corsair one you were on about and said it had a horrible noise to it due to the voltage and air bubbles... which he had to fix..

Had a tough week with the PC this week, but it's all sorted now.
Remember the problem I had with the PC not powering on? http://mess-hall.co.uk/forum/viewtopic. ... 620#p34590
Well I kept the mobo installed, laziness on my part. So this week I swapped back to the original mobo, and the Corsair H80 (CPU water-cooling) started playing up, it wouldn't cool anywhere near as efficiently as it did. So today I swapped that sucker out. Also previously the bearing noise was rhythmic, after the mobo swap it sounded frantic. So from this I could only assume the pump wasn't working properly.

Now it's so quiet I can hear (just about!) the 5x12cm chassis fans. Finally a near silent PC. The temp is now at the lowest I've ever seen it. 8°c on idle. (core temp not CPU - CPU @ 25°c) I also added another 8GB of RAM bringing the total to 16GB! Fast as fuck and quiet as a mouse!

crickey thats about 100 quid shy of what this HP im using cost and its geriatric now