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Water-Cooling Systems Roundup: 16 Systems Reviewed! (page 19)

Category: Coolers

by Kirill "ALT-F13" Balalin

[ 03/30/2006 | 08:48 AM ]

Thermaltake Symphony

The Symphony is the biggest system in this review. We have also already taken it apart in our previous article called 2006 Cooling Fashions from Thermaltake: Six New Cooling Solutions Reviewed, so you might want to check it out for more extensive details. If you don't feel like digging into details at this time, here are a few most essential things about this system.

Its package can take up an entire table:

An ingenious solution, the aluminum cooling unit designed as a floor speaker:

The huge radiator behind the black grid is cooled by as many as five 120mm fans! The cooling potential of the whole arrangement seems to be immense.

Curiously enough, Thermaltake decided to use a new design of the water-block here instead of their standard design.

We liked the pipes and the fittings: when the radiator is detached from the water-block, the water doesn’t pour out of the “tower”.