Liquid cooling considerations (Score 1)

Having installed an earlier swiftech kit, I can tell you it is not for the faint of heart. The gear is very well made, high-quality gear, but it does require some surgery on your case to mount an external radiator. It won't win any beauty contests for external aesthetics, but does give a kind of Frankenstein chic look. Bottom line: it does work really well. The 80mm fans basically silent compared to the hurricanes cooling most AMD's. You can also add video chipset headers if you need to. With RAM sinks and an aluminum case, that leaves only the power supply fan to contend with. If you want dead silent (and happen to be in Japan) check out the Hitachi Flora 270W water cooled laptop. Its a P4 1.8Ghz. It uses a hunk of machined aluminum mounted to the rear of the LCD as a radiator. The specs I saw were labeled in Japanese, so I am not sure if they are creating a bimetalic Peltier to pump heat out of the LCD as well.