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Integrated Water-Cooled Case
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. "
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