Great article ;) I seem to stil be a complete n00b when it comes to water even after years of reading stuff about them. I think i must blank out whenever it gets mentioned so its good to see there are kits out there for the total n00bie. I do however think that if i was loking to buy this kit and read that review i would definatly not buy it. The fact that there wasnt enough liquid in the bottle would be an added expense and i wouldnt just have it lying around.
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nice review there, its filled in a few holes i had about WC'ing. im thinking about a kit like this and it certainly looks better than the coolermaster kit thing
Originally Posted by monkeyville Great article ;) I seem to stil be a complete n00b when it comes to water even after years of reading stuff about them. I think i must blank out whenever it gets mentioned so its good to see there are kits out there for the total n00bie....
Ditto to all that.
The insufficient coolant seems like a big mistake - perhaps it should be diluted?
I got scared by the last line:
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Originally Posted by p4 para 6 if you out it together incorrectly.
I'd imagine it can be diluted though I wonder how much pipework you have used, I bought an alphacool kit, a ready2go one ( pretty much same stuff but preinstalled in a CM Stacker with 3x120mm rad in top, prefilled, £235 specialtech ), even better for beginners as its prefilled and you just have to put all your stuff in the new case and switch it on, although I didn't do that I drained it, added two gpu coolers to it plus some mosfet coolers and filled it with the same 500mm Alphacool bottle, it may be that your resevior is larger, mine is square and looks smaller.
Hmm, I'd love to watercool, but the thing holding me back is my socket A motherboard without mounting holes. It seems that hardly anyone makes a bracket that mounts to the socket tabs. It looks like this kit might use the tabs for a socket A. Would the BT staff be willing to verify that?
Originally Posted by Guido Hmm, I'd love to watercool, but the thing holding me back is my socket A motherboard without mounting holes. It seems that hardly anyone makes a bracket that mounts to the socket tabs. It looks like this kit might use the tabs for a socket A. Would the BT staff be willing to verify that?
Your money would be better spent upgrading hardware before moving to watercooling. £100 could buy a very cheap A64 solution which would improve performance more than what I cheap watercooling kit would.
Good review. It's great how companies are trying to get more people into WC. I'd love to try it, but I don't have enough money. :(
It would have been nice to see how well it performs when pitched against a proper, custom built WC setup, just to see how close you can get to it for the money.
How much liquid did you need in the end. I have a similar loop with an extra 3 blocks but an Aquatube in place of the submerged pump and it's completey filled with around 300ml.
I like Alphacool kit recently. It's very good value for very good performance.
It looks good for someone just starting out but if I would go to water I would want to do everything, CPU, GPU, northbridge. And the manual issue wouldnt bother me much, hardly read the things anyway unless somthings missing.
Minor point is that the you can still install it if you don't have a PCI slot free as it isn't actually using PCI, you just need somehere to stick that PCB
Major point is that it can be upgraded and expanded with part form a big range of suppliers - this doesn't tie you into one range of parts.
Originally Posted by Risky Minor point is that the you can still install it if you don't have a PCI slot free as it isn't actually using PCI, you just need somehere to stick that PCB
It is an option, but with the bare PCB I would highly recommend you don't unless you fully insulate it.
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Originally Posted by Risky Major point is that it can be upgraded and expanded with part form a big range of suppliers - this doesn't tie you into one range of parts.
Yep, as mentioned. ;)
I'll answer all other questions tomorrow when I have another play with it.
Don't be afraid of leaks, my watercooling setup has leaked twice, both times all over the graphics card (1st time a 9700np, 2nd time a 6800le), because I didn't seal the thread on the barbs on my TDX. Both times I dried it out and everything worked fine afterwards. The Irony is that I sealed everything else and assumed the waterblock would be ok . My system seems to take around a litre, possibly a little more. eheim 1250, TDX, BIX120.1, and several feet of 1/2" ID tubing.
Nice review. Good starting kit
Have also a nice kit laying around only the bloks fore gpu and NB leak because the screws are over tightend. So almost fineshed with building new cover out of aluminium so within some time I will install it in a Antec Sonata. But also thinking of buying a lianl li case. just a simple one with enough room.
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Ditto to all that.
The insufficient coolant seems like a big mistake - perhaps it should be diluted?
I got scared by the last line:
Also a small typo:
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Anyway seems like a good bit of kit
I was however very impressed with the new Zalman heatsink!!
Your money would be better spent upgrading hardware before moving to watercooling. £100 could buy a very cheap A64 solution which would improve performance more than what I cheap watercooling kit would.
It would have been nice to see how well it performs when pitched against a proper, custom built WC setup, just to see how close you can get to it for the money.
I like Alphacool kit recently. It's very good value for very good performance.
Major point is that it can be upgraded and expanded with part form a big range of suppliers - this doesn't tie you into one range of parts.
It is an option, but with the bare PCB I would highly recommend you don't unless you fully insulate it.
Yep, as mentioned. ;)
I'll answer all other questions tomorrow when I have another play with it.
Have also a nice kit laying around only the bloks fore gpu and NB leak because the screws are over tightend. So almost fineshed with building new cover out of aluminium so within some time I will install it in a Antec Sonata. But also thinking of buying a lianl li case. just a simple one with enough room.