Globalwin Jefi Watercooling Kit Reviewed

shockNZ writes "[H]ardOCP has reviewed what appears to be a first in PC watercooling - an 'open reservoir evaporative cooling system.' The Globalwin Jefi has a radically different design to most systems on the market. The reservoir is open at the top, and utilizes something akin to a showerhead in order to rain the incoming hot water from the PC down onto a floating heatsink. Perhaps surprisingly, it demonstrated excellent performance and low noise levels - and as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium."

Comments

Tropical fish casserole

[syrinje]

Does the temperature of the water go high enuff to poach them??!

Re:Tropical fish casserole

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Well, given that the cooling depends to some degree on the processor load, which in turn depends on what you are running, it mainly depends how long you play your FPS for.

Where: FPS = Fish Poaching Software; natch

Re:Tropical fish casserole

[gbjbaanb]

which is about 8-10 degrees too warm for most common freshwater tropical fish

Are you saying I have to get a heatsink and fan to cool it down then?

Er

[Billobob]

Hasn't open reservoir evaporative been done many times before, also called a bong? Granted it probably hasn't been done exactly this way, people have been bong cooling for years - its just a little forgotten.

Re:Er

[Billobob]

I know the above got modded as funny, but it really does exist - http://www.overclockers.com/articles389/ . Bong cooling hasn't been that popular in recent years however, seeing as people usually want a sexier way to watercool their PC.

Re:Er

[MikeLip]

This type of cooling is used in power plants - particularly nuclear. That's what those cooling towers are doing. The coal fired plant in my local town uses towers as well. It's very efficient.

hot as a teakettle

[Madcapjack]

And if you overclock, you can make tea with it.

Re:hot as a teakettle

[rzbx]

As the article poster stated "...and as a bonus, the reservoir can be used as an aquarium."

So you could cook up a bowl of fish soup too.

Case Mod?

[mungeh]

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that a CPU cooling system that can double as an aquarium is something us serious modders have been waiting for. But how about a mouse pad ant farm? or a monitor that can be a hampster cage?

Fishies

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I really want fish crap flowing through my PC.

Dangerous innovations

[syrinje]

The only novel idea in this whole thing is the open tank shower cooler - which also poses the spill hazard. Admittedly the tank looks like a futuristic acrylic ventilated crab and could be considered cool in some sub-cultures - BUT - if you have kids (yeah, some ./ers do!) or pets KEEP THIS system away from your PC. If you think you have problems with your dog drinking outta the toilet bowl now....

Silence

[bmiller949]

It may be a bit too noisy for the silent enthusiast crowd. With the pump producing 22db and the fan doing 20db at the lowest voltage, it is not as silent as the Zalman Reserator. Then again, if you used the Zalman product on an AMD 64, the reservoir would double as a drip coffee maker.

Big cenceptional problem

[imsabbel]

with open circuit watercooling system is water contamination. Algae seems to be able to grow on little more then the casual dust that enters the water, and the best place to grow is where you dont want it: The nice warm and thin parts of the CPU heatsink.

Take that salt-water aficionados!

[Anonymous Coward]

Up to now there's been no affective way for home aquariums to host the exotic creatures found near deep-sea volcanic vents - until now!

(Sulfur not included)

2 AM IT call...

[secondsun]

I can imagine being woken up at 2 AM for an emergency outage because someone forgot to water the server.