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man_ls writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of a new Koolance water-cooled case. It has a built in watercooling system, to save people into overclocking the trouble of building their own. Unfortunately, it only works with Athlon, Duron, and Pentium IIIs. The P4 socket isn't compatible with it. "
... familiar. Anyways, here are some obligatory links:
Koolance
Overclockers.com
[H]ard|OCP
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HardOCP.com might be of some help.. you already know of Tom's Hardware. If you can't find anything to cool your oc'd hardware try the pc mods part of thinkgeek.com or pcmods.com
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From the article:
"There's a first time for everything - since our last review of a barebones system from Koolance, the company has moved mountains. But let's not get ahead of ourselves - in our article "Barebones PC Cooling Tower: A Showy Case From Koolance", we pointed out a slew of weak points in the barebones system. One of the main problems was the insufficient cooling performance of the system, which was caused by grave design errors and the use of inappropriate components. In response, the manufacturer removed the "old" system from the market and replaced it with a new one. The result? All of our gripes were heeded and problems were solved. Even our critical lab engineers were delighted by the new Koolance system..."
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Er...the $250 price tag is actually pretty low, making it one of the primary reasons that people buy a Koolance. If you add up the costs of all the components in a watercooling system (waterblock, pump, radiator, tubing, etc) plus a decent case, you'd be hitting close to that price already. Plus, Koolance builds it all for you and gives you instructions and tech support on it. Also, the Koolance system is much quieter than a decently cooled aircooled system.
And about your comment on who they're targeting...well, for starters, watercooling is nothing new, neither is Koolance or even Tom's review of the new(er) Koolance. And if it was for a "geek who needs every new god damn toy for his computer no matter what the cost" and that thinks that Mhz is of supreme importance, said geek would be running a P4, and probably would never have even heard of watercooling.
You've also forgotten that all overclockers aren't doing it just to be thrifty. A lot of overclockers do it to get as much performance as possible. You can't buy a 2ghz+ AMD chip, but you can overclock to that. Now, I'm not saying that you would use a Koolance to get 2+ ghz, but watercooling is how you would do it, and you seem to be bashing watercooling all together.
Please try to get your facts straight next time you talk.
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matt fury
My bro bought one of these for $200. He runs a 1Ghz Athlon. I have an 850MHz Athlon. I have a $30 case with fan and a $15 Thermaltake fan/heatsink. Here's the catch, my computer and his computer make the same amount of noise. My cooling system can handle up to 1.3Ghz with no sound increase. Not only that but his is a ton heavier and the first one he got didn't work and he had to ship it back (Shipping costs ~$50) When the replacement arrived, it was missing the processor clamp. In short, my bro is mad and only marginally satisified with his case.
I really like it. I got the first case from them, after the obligatory 10 week wait -- They first said 3 weeks, but after I called 4 weeks later, they informed me that they were redesigning the system. After I received my unit and installed all the components, my 1GHz K7 was reaching 160F in 45 seconds. Koolance didn't believe me when I told them the unit wasn't circulating water. I put a normal TT heatsink on the proc and there was no problem. I sent the case back for repair. 4 weeks and many, many phone calls later, the replacement case arrived. It has worked flawlessly and quietly. I really am impressed with the low noise.
I didn't buy this to overclock, but to run quietly, which is really important when I use the box for audio recording (on location -- yes, it's heavy) and editing.
All in all, I love the case. The support from Koolance is decent, but they're slow. You decide . . .