X-bit labs

Started by: OldDummy | Date 11/30/07

Comments: 8 | Last Comment:  03/31/08

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1. Good atricle. Makes me want to reconsider the water option. Always thought that it was too muich work and problems for what it does. hmm...have to think about it.

2. How about you now try comparing this versus an actual quality water cooling system? Go try a high-performance kit from www.petrastechshop.com or somewhere similar. Koolance is a joke - they lie to their consumers, and make horribly skewed "tests" in a pitiful attempt to show why they use aluminum instead of copper.

Copper is good at absorbing heat, aluminum is good at dispersing it nitwit.

As for actual water cooling setups, they cost more, and is a hell lot harder for average nitwit to use on his shiny new phenom 9600 and 2400XT CrossFire.

3. that serious drawback is even more serious than the conclusion would indicate. Since Koolance uses aluminum radiators and blocks, you cannot simply swap in a third party block without putting your system on the fast track to some serious galvanic corrosion. Copper and aluminum don't mix in water because there will be an oxidation reduction reaction.

I like Koolance's radiator and case design and would probably buy them if the better waterblocks were compatible.

I'm 99.99% sure Koolance uses solid copper bases, plated in 24k gold. Where are you getting 'solid aluminum blocks' from? And they use aluminum radiators to better dissapate heat and because Koolance's radiators are BRAZED together and not spot welded, they use aluminum because again aluminum works better in that situation. Do your homework before you spout off about something you obviously dont know much about.

4. Good one.
There is MOSFET blocks. I'm thinking of water cooling system for few month and cant find answers to my questions.
1. Assume I'm not "The Overclocker" (E6300@2.8 on P5N32-E SLI 680i)
2. Ambient temperature about 28 most of the year.
3. Need to be very quiet.
4. All internal.
5. CPU + NB + SB + MOSFET + Graphics .
Closest thing was form swiftech. But the optimal kit would be reservoir + pump + cpu block + Radiator (120) for 3x5.25 bays + NB + SB + VGA + radiator (120) rear connected in same order
And what is most important, I'm looking for review on every day use.
Something useful beside "WOW".

5. Very paractical approach to the evaluation and thorough going-over.
A very good basis to consider this product.

6. loved the GPU block... will the AMD version fit the 3870/3850 ?

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