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"Out of This World" Liquid-Cooling System: Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Review

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 07/21/2005 | 08:17 AM ]

We are testing a new liquid cooling system from Gigabyte represents a complete kit including everything necessary for immediate use. This CPU cooling solution turned out very is simple and reliable, quiet and highly efficient. Read more in our review.

Table of contents:

• Package and Accessories
  
• Water-Block and Its Peculiarities
  
• Water-Block Fan
  
• Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Heatsink
  
• Pump and Expansion Tank
  
• Accessories and Assembly
  
• Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Technical Specification
  
• Testbed and Methods
  
• Performance
  
• Conclusion
  

We have been very lucky with the latest and greatest samples lately. We cannot claim that all of the solutions we tested were impeccable; however, they were all extremely interesting to take a closer look at, no doubt about that. Today we would like to introduce to you the star of this year’s Computex show. From the news right into our test labs – welcome the liquid cooling system 3D Galaxy from Gigabyte!

Package and Accessories

The window on the front side of the box allows you a look at the liquid-cooling system inside – the text nearby reads “that is out of this world!” Through the window you can see a tube with coolant, a heatsink with a 120mm fan, a copper water-block, a pump with an expansion tank, and a water-block’s fan. In other words, you can see all the main components of a decent liquid-cooling system displayed.

The front side of the package also enumerates the basic advantages of this system, lists the supported CPU sockets, and shows a snapshot of the assembled system. The box has a carry handle for easy transportation.

There are no windows on the back side, but there’s more info instead:

Here you see a detailed specification, large photos of the system’s components and more…

The external box contains a smaller black cardboard package:

The black package has two compartments. The first and larger compartment contains a plastic box with carefully placed components of the system. The other compartment contains various accessories.

Let’s examine each component one by one.