Koolance Water Cooling Kit

VL writes "Overall, Koolance has a very impressive kit in the PC3-720 and is definitely worth considering if you're interested in an easy to use water-cooling setup. Performance is very good, and the case aesthetics are top notch in our opinion. Pricing is something we do have a problem with. Aluminum case aside, this is an expensive setup."

Comments

Feh

[ErikZ]

Expensive cooling kits that come with NO waterblocks? Flexibility my ass. They should include a "Select 1 waterblock of your choice" to come with the kit. But I'm guessing that's where they make their money. Carving up 1$ worth of aluminum and selling it for 40$

Until they start cutting their prices, I'm going to have to stick with homebuilt water-cooling. My current reservoir is made from a Tupperware container!

Re:Feh

[werelord]

Its not as bad as you think.. I bought the stand-alone Koolance system (not attached to the case) this past summer; yes, it was expensive, and yes, it did not come with the water blocks. But I look at it this way; the actual resivoir, tubing and such is in investment; its not like normal computer equipment that will lose value with age. The system can easily be transferred to another system; even the cooling blocks are compatible with different processors/sockets, and can be reused. If I were to get a processor that the block couldn't handle, I don't need to buy a new system; just a new block.

All in all, I'm happy with my Koolance solution; its well worth the money.

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Re:Overclocking is so '90s stuff .. silence is har

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a silent rig for my home theater. It's an underclocked, undervolted Barton XP Mobile with no fans and no drives.

The CPU peaks at 75C, but it's stable. The driveless aspect is handled by using Venturcom BXP to network boot XP. There is an external dvd drive used for rentals/borrowed discs, but is so rarely used it's kept powered off.

It took a fair bit of tweaking to find the right balance of speed, volts, and temp for this chip, but it's doable.

My previous processor for this box was a P3 Tualatin, very easy to run fanless. I upgraded for video scaling and game reasons, but if you just want a box for DVD/mp3 playback, the P3 is fine.

If your cpu loads are even lighter, say for just an mp3 station/cd player, Cyrix or Epia are a good way to go...those chips are stable fanless in almost any environment.

For fanless operation, the Barton Mobile is the fastest chip right now you can reasonably get working, and the lower your horsepower reqs, the easier it gets.

Cheep water cooling

[lhaeh]

Water cooling can be done on the cheep as well, under $50 for the whole setup.

The hardest part is the water block, making one isn't all that easy. The way I did it is by taking a smaller then normal heat sink and surrounding it with plexiglass. It has holes for an in and out tube in it. Figuring a way to keep it on the cpu securely wasn't easy, I ended up using thermal epoxy.

I got my radiator from a store that fixed air conditioners. I got the plexiglass from a surplus store. The pump from an aquarium store. Everything else from the hardware store.

Re:Cheep water cooling

[Vo0k]

What about getting a radiator with thick, long ribs and draw copper pipe between them? Not a single leakable point from the beginning to the end of the setup (you never cut the pipe, just bend) except of attaching the pipes... (but if you want, you can pull the copper pipe outside the case, so it runs without a single joint through the whole inside)

Re:Overclocking is so '90s stuff .. silence is har

[Monkelectric]

I bought the VERY FIRST koolance case to run in my studio because they are pretty quiet. I was very happy with it, until the radiator died and dumepd water into my PC. Wasn't so bad though, only lost a stick of ram in the whole thing!

Flash forward a year ... My PC is overheating all the time. The *ENTIRE* system is filled with this white stuff with the consistancy of phglem (even though I used the growth inhibitors). The pumps are jammed with it and barely moving any water...

Long story short... WATER COOLING IS NOT MEANT FOR PCs. I think the quality of the koolance product is high, but face it, the idea is TERRIBLE.