Of course, you also get a little over 1.5 meters of the good old Asetek pipe:

This pipe doesn’t bend in two even if you twist it at a very sharp angle.

And here’s one more surprise to you:

It is something to get a CD with drivers and software for a water-cooling system! I guess the old joke about a mouse pad driver won’t be a joke anymore if things go this way – and mouse pads are already attached to a USB port! So, this disc stores less than 10 megabytes of data, half of which is software and the other half, the description. There are no drivers here as such. The pump is identified by the system as a standard USB device and the user only has to install the software.

You install and launch the enclosed software to find two small temperature indicators in the system tray (they will appear only if you’ve connected the included thermal sensors):

Clicking on them makes the main program window appear:

The program is very informative and functional. In the left part of the window there are sliders to adjust the speed of the fans, the speed of the pump, the highlighting intensity and contrast of the LCD display (if such is connected) and the program window transparency level. The settings can be saved in a profile to be invoked in the context menu of the system tray icon:

It’s quite handy: instead of adjusting all the settings each time you need to do so, you can create profiles for maximum performance and for quietest operation, for example, and switch between them as necessary. The graph in the right part of the window illustrates how the parameters are changing over time. If you double-click it, this window will remain on the Desktop:

It reports the system status to you and nothing more.

So Asetek has managed to create a near-ideal pump for enthusiasts and our thanks go to the developer for that. On the other hand, only true enthusiasts will find this product appealing as ordinary users are unlikely to shell out about $100 for a pump with a small expansion tank and a software speed control & monitoring system.