Athlon 64 4000+ & Gainward 6800Ultra

Wingerr

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Hi,

What's the best way to cool Athlon 64 4000+ and Gainward's Geforce 6800 Ultra?
The most important for me is the noise - I want it possibly noiseless, totally quiet.
I was thinking about Zalman's Reserator 1, but will that be enough even for a processor only?
If it will work for CPU but not CPU + GPU, I think about using two separate Reserators, one for processor, other for graphics...

Or there is any other product I should look at, which I can buy in Ireland/UK? Or maybe something else than water cooling?

What say you?
 

scottchen

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Get an Astec waterchill kit, the one with the 3 fans radiator, with possibility to mount 6, that'll cool your computer nicely, and the fans that comes with the kit are very quite. Definently quiter than your chipset/power fans.
 

shawnlizzle =]

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uhh... i'm gonna be straight forward, Reserator is crap...period. the intention of it was good, but it does NOT work well. the purpose of water cooling is mostly to OC, but the totally silent and the 20dbs isn't very different. get a BIP2 and put some quiet fans on them and it'll do a MUCH better job than the Reserator

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Crashman

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Reserator has the quietest pump I've tested, no fan noise, and works fine with an overclocked 2.6C at 3.2GHz and 9600Pro at XT speed...

His GPU might produce twice the heat, but I bet his CPU produces a lot less.

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