you could say it's been a lifelong journey of mine to build the quietest pc
possible my old tj07 build used two radiators so
that i could run my fans at just 600 RPM and my current setup has the pc
literally in a different room with a cable running through the wall
but that is both expensive and kind of a pain in the butt
what if there was another way
a way that looks super cool but that may or may not be even more
expensive and with even more butt pain
i'm going to tell you about it but first something that comes with no butt pain
the be quiet! dark base 700 is a versatile case that features RGB
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so this idea was actually pitched months ago in a writer's brainstorming meeting
when well let's just say we got totally off
topic discussing old computer hardware memes but instead of making a case made
of fans we should do a case made of radiators right and it should have no
fans at all yes
well somehow that made it onto the production
calendar with the original plan actually being to basically no actually to
exactly just jury rig together every
radiator in the warehouse with some l brackets we had lying around and zip tie
in a motherboard power supply and graphics card that got canned pretty
quickly and the project evolved into its second form a bunch of radiators
attached with l brackets and some metal mounting brackets for the
internal hardware courtesy of our friends with the machine shop that
totally isn't the only reason we hang out with them after school proto case
then by this point if we're gonna get some custom mounting hardware we might
as well create our own frame for the radiators right
yeah obviously so it was off to autodesk
inventor where a bunch of time was spent measuring and mocking up the brackets
required for our build as well as for the case frame itself
we ended up with a shape that's actually sort of reminiscent of a pc case but
without front fascia or side panels
or a bottom i guess it is to a case kind of what a
go-kart frame is to a car but
these uh feet that we got from mnpc tech are pretty cool and anyway it's perfect
for our purposes since it is perfectly
sized for ek's ultra thick xc series
radiators in the 360 millimeter variant
and then it's also got another spot on the back for the three by three 120
millimeter rad that we've had sitting around unused in the warehouse since
2013. for style points for this build we went
with hardline tubing using fittings for all of the bends giving us a finished
product that i wouldn't think would be
beautiful to most people in like a traditional sense but that has a raw
industrial look to it that i personally absolutely love
and the real story here isn't beauty anyway but rather pushing the limits of
performance and cooling so let's take a look then at the insane specs that we
loaded it up with for testing we started with 18 cores of pure Intel
core i9 power then we threw in 64 gigs of quad channel
sodium ddr4 from g skill 64 gigs and a
whopping 3 by 960 gigs of NVMe SSD raid
0 goodness though we actually ended up needing
those high capacity drives for another project but
their 240 gig siblings look pretty much the same oh and then we threw in a gtx
1080 because come on what i9 rig doesn't have a bitching GPU
finally at the heart of all that the way that we fit this much radiator power
into this much space was asrock's brand new x299e itx with a custom bits power
full cover block that thankfully replaces the micro sized vrm cooler on
this puppy okay then enough about that how does it
perform we decided to test our creation a couple
of different ways first with no fans in
it at all except for the one that was built into our silverstone 800 watt
modular sfxl power supply
and that idle mission accomplished our temps were near
ambient with our pump handling all of these radiators like a champ with that
said a system like this when it's not doing anything doesn't
kick out a lot of heat so we added a CPU load measured the
results and ended up even more impressed
even at this power level we are easily dissipating all of the heat and keeping
our processor at a safe temperature but then what about the graphics card
no problem so i think at this point it's safe to
call the project a success it should be noted that the fan in the power supply
did spin up while gaming adding to the noise already being made by our d5 pump
but thanks to the massive radiator surface area this is still among the
quietest systems we have ever encountered even at full load and
perhaps the coolest thing about it is that by borrowing a page from the build
that originally inspired it we can take it of course to a completely new level
now we weren't able to fit fans onto all of the radiator spots but
even running at a low RPM we ended up with some seriously impressive cooling
results so then conclusion i guess
if this was a product sent to us by a manufacturer asking for an objective
review what would we say well in this exact configuration we're
looking at almost twelve hundred dollars worth of water cooling hardware
so we'd start by saying that you might wanna think about saving a few bucks by
using soft tubing at the very least
but we'd also say that you cannot question the performance of what is
effectively an 18 by 120 millimeter
radiator setup and you can't question the fact that it
not only ran passively but also did so
with performance that wasn't far off what you'd expect from decent
aftermarket cooling systems so
it's not a great value but it's definitely rad
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