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Air-, Liquid- and Thermo-Electrical Cooling Technologies in One: CoolIT Freezone Review (page 6)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 08/24/2007 | 12:54 PM ]

Then you secure the Freezone through the rear panel of the case by means of four screws with spacers.

That’s all, actually. The system is ready to be connected. The connection boils down to attaching four connectors from the Freezone to the controller card:

There is potentiometer in the middle of the top part of the card (marked as RV1) that can be used to vary the system performance and fan speed. I’ll tell you more about it in the Test Results section. The card offers four connectors for fans, but the cooling system uses only one of them. The remaining two can be used to power other fans, not belonging to the Freezone.

There are two strips of dual-sided scotch on the reverse side of the card for you to glue the controller somewhere in the system case.

Frankly speaking, I only found one convenient place for the controller in my ASUS Ascot 6AR2-B. It was on the rear panel of the case, right below the mainboard’s PCI slots.

All other places were no good due to too short cables and a high capacitor on the controller prevented me from gluing it to the side of the HDD cage. Anyway, I guess you’ll find a place for a small card somewhere. And finally you have to connect the cables to the appropriate headers (the headers are unique, so you can’t confuse them). Moreover, you have to connect another cable (from the pump) to the CPU fan connector on the mainboard.

Assembled and installed into a system case, the Freezone looks like follows:

It’s still quite roomy in there but I had to remove the system fan from the side panel which would not close otherwise.