Server Liquid Cooling Stealth Mode

[Snowman]

What I am looking ot do is to liquid cool my server, as to me it has to be the loudest computer I have ever owned. It is an older socket A, and I have been able to find a waterblock for the cpu albeit the price I am not so happy with. I plan on repurposing an old oil or tranny cooler for the rad which I plan to mount on the inside bottom. The plan is to pull cold air from the bottom through the rad and vent the fans straight out the side with a little bit of ducting. I have two issues yet to be resolved. I need to find a way to stealth the res as this is to my best knowledge a mid 90's desktop, one of the first atx with the atx power supply instead of the hybrids. My options as I see it are a 5 1/4 bay res or possibly a closed system with no res, which would be a pain possibly. The second unresolved issue is that the other half of this case being loud is the psu fan. I reused the psu that came with this case because I didnt need much power. I may be replacing it with a psu that has sata because I plan on putting in a sata card and upgrading the hdd's eventually. Is there a way to temporarily quiet this fan down such as lubing the bearings?

[Spawn-Inc]

i'm not sure how good you are with your hands, but you can always make your own block. get a 1" copper end cap, solder it to a sheet, or hammered flat coupling. 2"x2"x1/4" copper plate - 6.00 (http://www.petrastechshop.com/2x2x1cobl.html) and make your own block.

if you use a rad like that make sure you clean the crap out of :).

the Swiftech Micro Res is about the smallest res i've seen. link (http://www.petrastechshop.com/swmcmirere.html)

[Luke122]

High pressure, high temperature flush is needed to clean out a rad like that, or get a new one. :)

The homebuilt waterblock is actually a good approach.. I've seen a socket A cooler that was homebuilt, and testing showed it to be suprisingly efficient.

[Snowman]

Don't really have the steady hand to do my own water block and i found one that supports socket A, and as far as the rad goes im really cheap at the moment (two kids + planning and paying for a wedding) i can get a compact oil cooler from vdub for next to nothing. The res was my only stumbling block and i have looked at 5.25 drive bay reservoirs because my two unused bays are behind a door anyway. I really like your guys' input hopefully i get more.

[Spawn-Inc]

if you are on that tight of a budget, then skip the res. a Tline works plenty fine, it just takes a bit more time to bleed.

if your mixing metals (copper/aluminum) then you need to use antifreeze to slow down the corrosion.

[msmrx57]

Another rad option would be a heater core. Most of the older ones are made of copper so you would avoid the mixed metal issue. It would still need a good flush. Just a thought.