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Is it possible to make a nearly silent gaming PC cheaply?
I wanted cool my PC with evaporation, then I saw Bong Cooling but I found it is too loud and unreliable. So could I make it better?
I figured out the water can't fall from more than 5cm (2') and water area must be as big as possible. First I wanted to make a waterfall but I would need a high performance, loud and expensive water pump and wide tubings. Then i figured out the water must be standing. And my solution:
And it costed 100zł=25$! Pump, tubing, water blocks and metal clips It can cool most powerfull non-sli PC! 
I've been using it for a week and it works. I can't even hear it. I'm so happy, I think I'm first who did something like this!
Sources: some of my calculations are based on Engineeringtoolbox.com and my sister made me that painting


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Edit: And if somebody wonders how CPU can be cooler than water temperature. I've measured temp. in the highest box (right after end of the loop), and the pump is on the bottom so it sucks water of lower temp. Also CPU is first in the loop so it gets colder water, GPU water already heated by CPU
Some mistakes I've made and you really shouldn't:
 

High end AIOs edge out high end air coolers for temps, but that doesn't necessarily mean better overclocks. High end air coolers (think DH-15) require big cases though, making them trickier to fit, now that all but the smallest of cases have 240mm rad support. They also block off the top PCI slot (so make sure your MB just has a x1 slot there), and requires low profile RAM. However they are quieter and should last for over a decade.
 
I'd say the correct answer is what ever works best with your chosen case. Also consider you may not need a high end cooler at all, and the expense don't really make sense on a mid range CPU. A mid range (120mm) air cooler could save a useful chunk of money for a better graphics card, which for a gaming PC should be the focus of your efforts anyway.

C'mon Nick, are you even reviewing these or just linking them without checking?  
It's just $8 off a HDD, I'm reasonably confident you could get this deal any day of the week
OK now this is just silly, this GPU is over 10 years old and was low-end even when it was new, it's not worth 1/10th of this price, and it's not even on sale!

The vote video was so long ago that their whole company concept has changed. I don't see game reviews happening. Main reason being that they take way too long to prepare. They basicly could do first touch style thing. Where we see shortened version of someone playing some new game for the first time. Bit in style of old unboxing videos where you have spec sheet and really nothing else to work with.
 
Now with main editor/workhorse leaving (Berkel), I'm just interested to see who will be doing editing for it. Maybe Pelle?

I think they should do stuff like they did when they were in the old office. 

Not a masterpiece. But I think it's simple. The boxes are from Ferrero Roche

Not a masterpiece. But I think it's simple. The boxes are from Ferrero Roche

I've updated my cooling. Changed base reservoir to to smaller and transparent (I had extreme luck, I've found it in shop and it fits edge-to-edge!), mounted tubing properly and added some other improvements.
And I've added lightning, but I will only use it to show-off and turn it off for every day use, 'cos I don't want to be distracted. This was reason to make it quiet in the first place, so why now ruine it? I also wanted it to look as Polish flag and in person it looks that way.
I'm now testing different chemicals for making water fresh, Carex soap seems to work suprisingly well.
I've been using it for 1,5 month on my main PC and for now it is reliable and really usable.
Please tell me if you have any advices or questions. I just want to know if anybody cares.

The number cruncher
 
73 cores and a Titan X in oil submerged and passiv cooled
 

 
 
Yes, my friend, it is as exorbitant as it sounds!
My last build was highly focused on single thread performance and it works perfect for this workloads: Link here.
However, I came across situations where I needed a considerable amount of compute power. As these workloads can be parallelized without a significant penalty, I developed a need for this number cruncher. Also I will use if for F@H during the night.
My first attempt was to use two E5-26xx v3 Xeons with the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard. But it turned out to be way to expensive. Therefor I downgraded to two E5-2680 v1 Xeons on a Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard. As I saved a lot of money on the CPUs and the memory, I was able to include a Xeon Phi 31S1P. MATLAB is able to take advantage of the “automatic offload” feature to seamlessly integrate the Xeon Phi and boost the performance. I won’t write programs for the Phi by myself.
For the GPUs I will use one or two of the upcoming Polaris / Pascal line-up depending on the performance and price. I’m tending towards Polaris, but I have not enough information to decide.
 
This leads me to the part list:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
 
As you probably know, I have an addiction to passive cooling. This time around I tried to get rid of the heat pipes. They are expensive and vulnerable. Also I'm lacking the appropriate tools to make a CPU block out of copper. Mounting the GPUs directly to the heat sinks proved itself as a good solution. Sadly, this is not feasible for the CPUs.
So I will use two Noctua NH-U12DX i4 cooler. But now I have to get rid of the fan somehow. This is certainly possible if you look at the definition of fan:
 
 
 
Source : http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fan
 
So be filling the box up with mineral oil, I’m not only getting rid of the noise. There are no fans left in the build by applying this definition
However, the build is not completely passive cooled, as the cooling used needs about 3 watts. But considering the total power this is negligible. So I will call it passive cooling. Also the oil itself is passive cooled.
 
More renderings:
 
 
 
 
Update 1: Super loud coil whine
 
Update 2: Design finalized
 
Update 3: Xeon Phi
 
Update 4: Vapor chamber
 
Update 5: 40 kg heat sinks
 
Update 6: 73 cores, 450 watts, 846 GFlops
 
Update 7: How to submerge a HDD
 
Update 8: It realy hurts doing this!
 
Update 9: Moved the build across a lake
 
Update 10: Assembly
 
Update 11: Filled the PC with 40 liter of oil!
 
Update 12: Finished: Pictures and summary!
 

Is it possible to make a nearly silent gaming PC cheaply?
I wanted cool my PC with evaporation, then I saw Bong Cooling but I found it is too loud and unreliable. So could I make it better?
I figured out the water can't fall from more than 5cm (2') and water area must be as big as possible. First I wanted to make a waterfall but I would need a high performance, loud and expensive water pump and wide tubings. Then i figured out the water must be standing. And my solution:
And it costed 100zł=25$! Pump, tubing, water blocks and metal clips It can cool most powerfull non-sli PC! 
I've been using it for a week and it works. I can't even hear it. I'm so happy, I think I'm first who did something like this!
Sources: some of my calculations are based on Engineeringtoolbox.com and my sister made me that painting


Older ver.:
 
Edit: And if somebody wonders how CPU can be cooler than water temperature. I've measured temp. in the highest box (right after end of the loop), and the pump is on the bottom so it sucks water of lower temp. Also CPU is first in the loop so it gets colder water, GPU water already heated by CPU
Some mistakes I've made and you really shouldn't:
 

@0ld_ChickenThanks for the link. His work just looks amazing, but it's totally different target. I bet mine is not that much hotter, it is nearly completly silent while he has 4 fans and droplets falling falling from 0,5m. And mine was made to be unhearable. Also his one extremly complicated. But that towel cooler is really clever.
And on the other hand mine looks like sh!t. I need to work on this. But as it is hidden behind my desk and I don't have to show it off it is ok.

Is it possible to make a nearly silent gaming PC cheaply?
I wanted cool my PC with evaporation, then I saw Bong Cooling but I found it is too loud and unreliable. So could I make it better?
I figured out the water can't fall from more than 5cm (2') and water area must be as big as possible. First I wanted to make a waterfall but I would need a high performance, loud and expensive water pump and wide tubings. Then i figured out the water must be standing. And my solution:
And it costed 100zł=25$! Pump, tubing, water blocks and metal clips It can cool most powerfull non-sli PC! 
I've been using it for a week and it works. I can't even hear it. I'm so happy, I think I'm first who did something like this!
Sources: some of my calculations are based on Engineeringtoolbox.com and my sister made me that painting


Older ver.:
 
Edit: And if somebody wonders how CPU can be cooler than water temperature. I've measured temp. in the highest box (right after end of the loop), and the pump is on the bottom so it sucks water of lower temp. Also CPU is first in the loop so it gets colder water, GPU water already heated by CPU
Some mistakes I've made and you really shouldn't:
 

Is it possible to make a nearly silent gaming PC cheaply?
I wanted cool my PC with evaporation, then I saw Bong Cooling but I found it is too loud and unreliable. So could I make it better?
I figured out the water can't fall from more than 5cm (2') and water area must be as big as possible. First I wanted to make a waterfall but I would need a high performance, loud and expensive water pump and wide tubings. Then i figured out the water must be standing. And my solution:
And it costed 100zł=25$! Pump, tubing, water blocks and metal clips It can cool most powerfull non-sli PC! 
I've been using it for a week and it works. I can't even hear it. I'm so happy, I think I'm first who did something like this!
Sources: some of my calculations are based on Engineeringtoolbox.com and my sister made me that painting


Older ver.:
 
Edit: And if somebody wonders how CPU can be cooler than water temperature. I've measured temp. in the highest box (right after end of the loop), and the pump is on the bottom so it sucks water of lower temp. Also CPU is first in the loop so it gets colder water, GPU water already heated by CPU
Some mistakes I've made and you really shouldn't: