This is an ordinary 220V aquarium pump.

It’s cheaper, to be sure, but this method of connecting the pump to power is rather too troublesome. You’ll have to get used to this if you’ve dealt only with PC-oriented pumps before. Soon you’ll learn to avoid typical mistakes like forgetting to turn the pump off after shutting down the PC and letting the pump work all day long after that. Or you can forget to turn the pump on and the computer shuts down on its own due to CPU overheat. Ideally, the user needs a relay to automatically turn such a pump on and off or a highlighted button on the front panel of the system case in order not to forget about the pump. You should also keep it in mind that there are no electric sockets inside the PC case and you have nothing to connect the pump to if you want to place it inside the computer.

A good feature of this kit is that it permits to replace the standard fittings with bigger ones:

You can see a threaded connection on the pump, so the fittings can be replaced. Otherwise, it is just an excellent external pump. It is cute-looking, small, quiet and high-performing. It comes from a renowned manufacturer and is easy to install. There are fasteners for suctions cups (included in the kit) on the pump’s bottom to suppress the vibration the device produces at work.

The water-block is far inferior to the senior model:

And its design is very simple:

The water comes into the center of the block along a special groove and goes out into the output fitting. This design doesn’t look promising, but the manufacturer managed to get quite an acceptable performance out of a very primitive design (primitive in terms of production complexity).

The fasteners are absolutely the same as enclosed with the 03-L-2010 [1/2”] block – they didn’t economize on that.

So, that’s the end of the description and we can proceed to the tests section of the review.