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Four Liquid-Cooling Systems for the Masses (page 18)

Category: Coolers

by Vasily Melnik

[ 10/14/2005 | 03:30 PM ]

The pipes are fastened on the fittings with special clamps:

These steel clamps carry the manufacturer’s logo and are equipped with plastic pieces for your fingers:

I wouldn’t say these clamps help much. There’s no difference if a clamp is put on a fitting or not. I don’t think that such clamps should be used in water-cooling systems which are most sensitive to the quality of all connections. Moreover, the plastic pieces just fall off when you try to squeeze the clamp.

The pump is connected via a multifunctional cable:

Besides powering the pump up, the cable powers the protection circuit and is equipped with a special connector that is plugged into the Power Switch connector – if the level of the coolant is too low, the protection circuit turns the computer off.

You get a bottle of blue coolant with the system:

You won’t learn anything new here – just the basic recommendations as with the Thermaltake products.