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

Slashvertisement

[dnixon112]

Someone should quantify the effects of a quality Slashvertisement like this. How much do these companies rake in?

Re:cold

[krautcanman]

BRRR COLD!!!!!

BRRR cold as in cold beer, or as in ex girlfriend?

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!

Slashvertisement?

[Anonymous Coward]

For a theoretically open and free news site, Slashdot is -- and will continue to be -- a cash cow, a research firm said Sunday as it predicted the site will bring in more than $35 billion in advertisement revenue by 2008. Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said that overall revenue for ad-links, kool-kases, and self-promoted hardware sites running through Slashdot will reach $35.7 billion in the next four years.

ads?

[Spytap]

Wait, I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons I installed Firefox and Adblock was to get rid of ads...yet they still seem to find a way to my browser...

Overclocking is so '90s stuff .. silence is hard

[Gopal.V]

These days overclocking is no big deal for half the crowd ... CPUs immersed in cooled flourinert has made it passe to even try the basic level.

Eventhough what I really want is a silent cooling system - I was quite spooked when my fans stopped working - perfect silence is disconcerting (Alfred Hitchcock could tell you). I want a silent, zero maintanence PC cooling solution (think about the G4 cube) - I'm sure I could compensate for the silence with some nice trance ..

"Overclocking is easy, silence is hard" :)

RISE AGAINST SLASHVERTISEMENTS

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's how the /. community can respond to these adverts disguised as articles:

1- Do not click the link
2- Post comments about COMPETITOR PRODUCTS, and alternative solutions. Spread focus.
3- Contribute replies to such posts made by others, i.e. keep discussing alternatives but try to avoid the advertiser.

No need to bash the original advertisers, just form a healthy discussion with a wide area of focus. Avoiding focus of public interest on the advertiser is the goal here.

4- Mod up articles such comments. Mod down comments which tend to announce "coolness" of the advertiser.

5- Profit - (i.e. enjoy the illusion of taking your news for nerds site back.)

Re:RISE AGAINST SLASHVERTISEMENTS

[Lord_Dweomer]

I agree with everything except the bashing of the original advertisers.

As someone in advertising, I will tell you right now the saying "any press is good press" is a crock of shit. If people are GENUINELY pissed off about a company, and voice that, others will take up their cry and not spend money with that company.

I think it is quite telling that as of this posting, about a third of the posts were random posts about cooling, and the rest were bashing the Slashvertisement and the whole slashvertisement problem at slashdot.

Frankly, I'm pissed off that NONE of the admins address this concern of their readers (or most of the other ones). And I'm sure the reason is that people will continue to read slashdot regardles, but it says a lot about the company running it, and if there were a viable alternative, I would seriously consider switching.

And honestly, I don't mind disclosed slashvertisements that much. There have been times when people get stories posted blatantly whoring something of theirs, and they admit it right away and don't hide it, and I have MAJOR respect for those people.

I wish there was a story moderation option that would let people moderate the story as a Slashvertisement, then I could filter them out.

---Koolance Owner----

[mboverload]

I have the Koolance EXOS, which has pretty much the same parts but this one has them built into the case.

I bought my Koolance about 2 years ago and have had many problems. First the raditor spung 3 DIFFERENT leaks due to crappy welding. I sealed it up with some silicone I had laying around, lucky for me it has not giving me leaks since. Next, I found the part where you hook the tube onto the CPU cooler was crappily made, There was this tab on the bottom of it (something left over from manufacturing) which caused the tube to leak because it could not make a seal. I fixed that with a nail file. AND THEN it started growing algae in the system becasue Koolance didn't put enough bleach in the mix. 1 year later, when I was opening it up to clean the radiator (you have to do it to clean all the dust off or the things useless) one of the connections to the resivoir spung a leak. This was no fault of my own, the plastic was cracked and by me moving it it finnaly gave way. It splurted green water everywhere (it has UV green dye in it and it sprayed because I had the machine on) The bleach in the water semi-bleached a nice shirt I was wearing, that sucked. I used 3 sticks of hot-glue to close it up. That took 3 times before it stopped leaking.

Since I fixed those 4 problems, it has been fine for me =) If it was anyone but me, they probably would have given up, however.

I am still extremely happy with it though (probably because I want to think the 400 dollars on all the parts was worth it) It is running right now and totaly silent. (Mod me up, I realling need the points!)

Is it really worth it?

[MikeyVB]

Maybe it is true that some people over clock their CPU's more for the challenge than to save any money.

Check out the price of the cooler and compare it to the price differences between CPU's (of a comparable class. i.e. - Don't compare an intel to an AMD, nor a P4 to a Celeron) and their clock speed differences (what you would be gaining from using the cooler). You will probably notice that the cost of the cooler is more than your savings on purchasing an inferior CPU and going through the trouble of over clocking it.

Is it really worth it?

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

[evilviper]

I want a silent, zero maintanence PC cooling solution

Easy.

Get a motherboard with a 933MHz Pentium III in it. A nice big heatsink is all you'll need to cool that 12watt CPU.

No other processor really comes close to that... The 1.0GHz AMD64 is about 22watts, which might be good enough with a motherboard supporting cool 'n quiet. This is the way to go if you want a 64-bit processor, or if you require DDR RAM.

VIA processors are under-performing pieces of junk that should be avoided at all costs. I speak from personal experience.

The power supply is the complex part. I'd buy a cheapo 500watt PS, and replace the fan with something practically silent. Since you'll probably only be drawing 100watts, it shouldn't need much cooling. You might try to use it without a fan, but I'd have thermometers on-hand, and watch case and PS temps very carefully.

If you don't mind spending a bit more money, there are plenty of fanless power supplies out there, and you're only going to need about 100watts, so it shouldn't be too expensive.

"Overclocking is easy, silence is hard" :)

Overclocking and underclocking (for silence) are both easy. Silence with good performance is the only difficult part.