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Building 0 db gaming ready pc

Hello Linus people, (as in everyone, not just the team :P )

My friend wants to build a 0 db gaming ready pc for his birthday. Our ideas so far are oil submereged cooling like Slick's cool oil cooled pc with the plant, or passive liquid cooling similar to this.

 

The pc is gonna have:

High end i7 cpu

probably R9 290 graphics card

Some good small motherboard and psu

1TB SSD

Hopefully 2x8GB 2333hz ram

 

We're open to suggestions and ideas to obtain a 0 db build. My friend is trying to completely avoid fans.

My questions would be: What risks do we take by building a mineral oil submerged pc, are there bad long term effects and what kind of maintenance does it require?

 

This is my first post on these forums and Thanks :D

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Just don't use any fans, at all. Completely silent. Might want to leave the hard drives out too.

He doesn't need RAM that fast. 1600 is good for gaming.

depending what games he will be playing he won't need an i7.

GPU looks aight.

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building a mineral oil submerged pc, 

 

If you are using mineral oil you still need a pump rad and fans, just plonking a PC in mineral oil will not cool it, in fact it will heat up faster than in air as the oil will warm up and will not cool down without active cooling

 

 

You are best to get a Passive CPU cooler like this

 

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And get a passive GPU

 

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And a passive PSU

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and finally use only SSDs

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good luck trying to get a passive gpu cooler for the 290, it runs hot and thats fine, but a constant 95C  will raise the temp for your cpu and PSU

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If you are using mineral oil you still need a pump rad and fans, just plonking a PC in mineral oil will not cool it, in fact it will heat up faster than in air as the oil will warm up and will not cool down without active cooling

 

And get a passive GPU

 

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Pffffft, you call that a passive GPU? This is a passive GPU:

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Also, not every fanless PSU is gonna be 0 dB because of the possible coil whine. 

 

If I were to build a 0dB gaming rig, I'd probably go with watercooling and tremendous low-FPI rad.

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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Also, not every fanless PSU is gonna be 0 dB because of the possible coil whine.

 

That is true but its about as quiet as you can get

 

I guess you can work out if they suffer coil whine from the reviews

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That is true but its about as quiet as you can get

 

I guess you can work out if they suffer coil whine from the reviews

Actually you could also get a massive overkill PSU (AXi1500 maybe :D ), so your rig will always be in zero-RPM mode.

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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 Wow, thanks for the super freaking quick replies.

 

depending what games he will be playing he won't need an i7.

The i7 is for work and not the games.

 

0 db is close to impossible 

It is possible without the fans and hard drives. And we can probably find 0db pumps for the passive liquid cooling.

 

There are many silent PSUs out there, so I don't think that'll be a problem.

 

We are most probably going to install rads but without the fans.

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 And we can probably find 0db pumps

 

We are most probably going to install rads but without the fans.

 

You are best just going for a passive air cooler and getting a well ventilated case so that passive air movement can extract the heat (a well vented top of the case would help too)

 

Rads without fans are not going to be the best for cooling

 

and 0db pumps are impossible, sure there are quiet ones but they will make sound

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gaming

 

 

Wow, thanks for the super freaking quick replies.

 

The i7 is for work and not the games.

I read nothing about work.

Someone told Luke and Linus at CES 2017 to "Unban the legend known as Jerakl" and that's about all I've got going for me. (It didn't work)

 

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I read nothing about work.

First, its Gaming ready :D and second, that's why I told you now that the i7's main purpose is work. And Gaming ready would refer to the graphics card.

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First, its Gaming ready :D and second, that's why I told you now that the i7's main purpose is work. And Gaming ready would refer to the graphics card.

I see. I tend to skim. Bad habit. Must not have seen it. I have a i7 and it bottlenecks me on Planetside 2....

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SSD's and noctua

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I have a i7 and it bottlenecks me on Planetside 2....

 

Everyone has this problem (including me)... I would blame Planetside 2.

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Everyone has this problem (including me)... I would blame Planetside 2.

I guess. It's not the best optimized. I can't pull a stable 60 fps @ 720p. AND I HAVE A GTX 780...

Someone told Luke and Linus at CES 2017 to "Unban the legend known as Jerakl" and that's about all I've got going for me. (It didn't work)

 

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You COULD make an overkill watercooling loop and run that passive. Probably the most expensive solution but a pretty cool one imho.

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I also thought for the oil cooling, what if I use an aquarium chiller? (Does this thing do noise, other than the fan?) Can replace the fan with some passive cooling or a slow noctua fan.

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0db build. Either you make yourself deaf or place your pc in a different room.

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I also thought for the oil cooling, what if I use an aquarium chiller? (Does this thing do noise, other than the fan?) Can replace the fan with some passive cooling or a slow noctua fan.

A huge ass fish tank would probably be good so it has enough liquid to not heat up (cool down at the same rate). But i'd have to be like 300liters.

But you could also get a smaller tank and attatch a huge ass x.200mm with slow fans to it.

Gaming HTPC:

R5 5600X - Cryorig C7 - Asus ROG B350-i - EVGA RTX2060KO - 16gb G.Skill Ripjaws V 3333mhz - Corsair SF450 - 500gb 960 EVO - LianLi TU100B


Desktop PC:
R9 3900X - Peerless Assassin 120 SE - Asus Prime X570 Pro - Powercolor 7900XT - 32gb LPX 3200mhz - Corsair SF750 Platinum - 1TB WD SN850X - CoolerMaster NR200 White - Gigabyte M27Q-SA - Corsair K70 Rapidfire - Logitech MX518 Legendary - HyperXCloud Alpha wireless


Boss-NAS [Build Log]:
R5 2400G - Noctua NH-D14 - Asus Prime X370-Pro - 16gb G.Skill Aegis 3000mhz - Seasonic Focus Platinum 550W - Fractal Design R5 - 
250gb 970 Evo (OS) - 2x500gb 860 Evo (Raid0) - 6x4TB WD Red (RaidZ2)

Synology-NAS:
DS920+
2x4TB Ironwolf - 1x18TB Seagate Exos X20

 

Audio Gear:

Hifiman HE-400i - Kennerton Magister - Beyerdynamic DT880 250Ohm - AKG K7XX - Fostex TH-X00 - O2 Amp/DAC Combo - 
Klipsch RP280F - Klipsch RP160M - Klipsch RP440C - Yamaha RX-V479

 

Reviews and Stuff:

GTX 780 DCU2 // 8600GTS // Hifiman HE-400i // Kennerton Magister
Folding all the Proteins! // Boincerino

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I also thought for the oil cooling, what if I use an aquarium chiller? (Does this thing do noise, other than the fan?) Can replace the fan with some passive cooling or a slow noctua fan.

A chiller makes a lot of noise.

 

Most passive components depends on airflow from other things to be passive.

 

You will always have a coil whine issue with most components.

 

0db is impossible. Not even a silent room is 0db.

Feel free to PM for any water-cooling questions. Check out my profile for more ways to contact me.

 

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A passively cooled 290 is a recipe for disaster. 

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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Hello Linus people, (as in everyone, not just the team :P )

My friend wants to build a 0 db gaming ready pc for his birthday. Our ideas so far are oil submereged cooling like Slick's cool oil cooled pc with the plant, or passive liquid cooling similar to this.

 

The pc is gonna have:

High end i7 cpu

probably R9 290 graphics card

Some good small motherboard and psu

1TB SSD

Hopefully 2x8GB 2333hz ram

 

We're open to suggestions and ideas to obtain a 0 db build. My friend is trying to completely avoid fans.

My questions would be: What risks do we take by building a mineral oil submerged pc, are there bad long term effects and what kind of maintenance does it require?

 

This is my first post on these forums and Thanks :D

0 dBA is pretty much impossible. The good news is, it doesn't have to be that quiet as 20 dBA and even up to 30 dBA is pretty much considered inaudible. The most practical but expensive solution would be a full custom loop with enough rads to be able to maintain a good deltaT while running your fans at sub 800RPM.  

 

The only other fan you'd have to worry about is the PSU. Getting an overkill PSU in which the fan that stays off until 60% load or something would solve this. 

 

Storage would have to be SSD only. 

 

Voila, you have an inaudible gaming PC. 

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