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<blockquote data-quote="gxtracker" data-source="post: 124967" data-attributes="member: 14004">sometimes a big misconception people have with water cooling is that its silent. It's not necessarily silent. all liquidcooling is doing is moving the heat away from the component - usually fans attached to a radiator are in charge of disapating the heat, and like we all know: fans generate noise.The biggest difference I've found to silencing a HTPC is to:1) reduce the voltage going to your fans. most fans, by default run on 12 volts. I've modded mine to run from the 5v rail instead, they move less air which means hotter components, but they are silent, and are much better than having no fans at all.2) stop vibration. Hard drives are a huge source of vibration - just put your finger on your hard drive when its idle. You should be able to feel the vibration and that vibration will resonate anything it is screwed into. The best solution to isolate the vibration is to mount your hard drives on a piece of foam or other soft, non conductive materal. it will dampen the vibration and prevent it from resonating your case.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gxtracker, post: 124967, member: 14004"] sometimes a big misconception people have with water cooling is that its silent. It's not necessarily silent. all liquidcooling is doing is moving the heat away from the component - usually fans attached to a radiator are in charge of disapating the heat, and like we all know: fans generate noise. The biggest difference I've found to silencing a HTPC is to: 1) reduce the voltage going to your fans. most fans, by default run on 12 volts. I've modded mine to run from the 5v rail instead, they move less air which means hotter components, but they are silent, and are much better than having no fans at all. 2) stop vibration. Hard drives are a huge source of vibration - just put your finger on your hard drive when its idle. You should be able to feel the vibration and that vibration will resonate anything it is screwed into. The best solution to isolate the vibration is to mount your hard drives on a piece of foam or other soft, non conductive materal. it will dampen the vibration and prevent it from resonating your case. [/QUOTE]

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