Zalman ZMachine LQ1000

Originally Posted by Baz
This is pretty much what we said in the review. While you'll get better and cheaper watercooling performance elsewhere, you won't get as high a quality product, or have the watercooling so well integrated into the case design.

Takes the fun out of it, booo :P

Still, it looks pretty delicious.

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
I watercool my systems since 2001 so I know where I am talking about.

You're not exactly the target market though. ;)

These cases are simply gorgeous, they are super nice but not worth the asking price.

I managed to pick one of the old revisions up for £31.54p from the local auction house, and we only got it at that price because we paid £95 for coolermaster cosmos, gigabyte 3d auraora 750, zalman z-machine gt1000.

And it was only because i knew what i was looking at that we ought to buy it!

We managed to get £195 for it on ebay....not bad huh. I was actually really sad to let it go, in a way that i could have kept it for myself and had an awesome case, but the offset was that i could sell it and make £160 profit?

The build quality is fantastic, the whole thing as soon as you pull it out the box and touch it, it just oooozes coolness.

The case looks a bit tacky IMHO... It might be built from high-class materials, but the front especially looks like something from 3RSystem or Thermaltake. I still say Lian-Li all the way, even though their build quality seems to have dropped of late.

But... it's so ugly.

I preffer rather the Zalman aircooled GS1000 with the new fashion way of the PSU at the bottom of the case

In response to the review comment about some people disliking the silk-screen logos on the case, I have it on good authority that these can easily be removed without damaging the aluminium finish by using paint-stripper such as Nitro-Mors etc.

I've never given the whole W/C thing a try. I just registered to this forum specifically to post on this thread. My question is...As someone who has ZERO experience with W/C, isn't this maybe an attractive option because of ease of use?... and is this possibly Zalman's target audience? It's got me thinking about taking the plunge. (Pun intended)...LOL