The cooler unit is fastened to the system case with four solid-looking screws. By the way, you must not carry the assembled system by the top: the aluminum panels may get deformed around those screws due to the very heavy bottom. Generally speaking, it is really troublesome to move the system around because the weight is huge (even if compared with the Asetek VapoChill XE), and the whole arrangement is not at all suited for transportation.

After undoing the above-mentioned screws, we took the casing off the cooler unit – the tests were all performed on an open testbed. The only thing that goes beyond the chassis’s dimensions is the heat-insulated flexible hose with the evaporator on its end.

The evaporator’s design differs dramatically from the design of the VapoChill XE (and the hose is also much handier and more reliable than the copper tube employed in the Asetek product). This square-shaped evaporator resembles the water-block of a liquid-cooling system. The massive plastic casing not only provides effective thermal insulation of the evaporator but also contains an 8W heater element to keep the external side of the casing hotter so that moisture would not condense there. In the next section we will discuss how the evaporator is fastened on the CPU using one of the different CPU kits.