Cool Your PC With Parts From Home Depot

So the other day I’m sitting in my home office and the GPU fan in my PC decides to start doing the dry-bearing death rattle. Just great, more noise. With the bad GPU fan, the inefficient CPU fan, PSU fan and two case fans the thing sounds like a garbage disposal ingesting a hand full of TTL logic chips.

Oh, and the external chassis for the pair of SCSI changers I use for CD ripping has it’s own really loud fan.

About this same time, I acquired an old DELL PowerEdge 4200 server which came in a huge double wide case that could hold all of my drives plus some. But what to do with the empty half? A second motherboard? No! Water cooling! But not just water cooling, there’s plenty of room so let’s see if we can water cool an Athlon 2400+ with no fans and no pumps, let’s see how quiet a PC can be.

Now, I’m a cheap bastard so I’m not going to pay for a bunch of fancy-ass water cooling swag from Koolance or Zalman or some such. Nope! I’m off to the plumbing section at Home Depot!

Silent Convective Water Cooled PC

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