<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 07 January 2009 01:25:52 pm Ian Clark wrote:<br>
> 2009/1/7 Brian Wood <beww@beww.org>:<br>
> [snip]<br>
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> > Water cooling adds complexity and potential problems that are best<br>
> > avoided if at all possible.<br>
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> Amen to that! It always amazes me that most people are so blasé about<br>
> putting water and expensive electronics together!<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Well, the water-cooling products are pretty well tested these days. It really is a great way to silently cool a standard (i.e. hot) PC. My main front-end is a water-cooled custom built packed into an HTPC case. It works great, but is not exactly cheap... I went with the Zalman reserator 2, which looks nice next to the rest of the theater components, but it cost me about $250.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>If I had to do it over, I would go with the mac-mini. I didn't know about it and the other fanless options at the time, but I am still pleased with the results if not the price.</p></body></html>