Interesting new WC kit

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Interesting new WC kit

Post by Pjotor » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:05 am

Reviewed at overclockers.com.

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Post by DryFire » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:17 am

It is a ver nice kit but the price is 163 Euros (~203 USD).

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Post by Rusty075 » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:05 am

OC'ers.com wrote:I found fan noise at about 62 dBA (measured 8" from the fan's intake) - not excessively noisy but noticeable


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Post by TheDarkHacker » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:45 am

that is excessive noise. i wonder why he mesured it 8 in away

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Post by Straker » Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:32 pm

Rusty075 wrote::roll:
OC'ers.com wrote:measured 8" from the fan's intake
will still be too loud for most of you at 1m, but give them some credit. :P

and it seems to have two things going for it that almost no other kits do: it's not a complete waste of money, and it looks like it does better than air cooling.

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Post by Edward Ng » Sat Oct 16, 2004 1:01 pm

Adding a pump relay, swapping in quieter fans and swapping in a better CPU block (like, say, a Swiftech MCW6000) would all add up for a much better system than provided; the problem is, suddenly you've increased the cost quite a bit, and have two 120mm fans and a not-that-great CPU block sitting around that you pretty much paid for, but won't use--heck, it probably won't even be very easy to sell them, even if completely unused.

Oh well; nice try on their part, anyway.

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Post by Pjotor » Sat Oct 16, 2004 2:41 pm

Agree with Straker -- at least they bothered to measure it at all!

It has a very low C/W ratio, which may make it easier to swap the fans for quieter ones w/o compromising too much of the performance.

On a side note: I don't watercool, and never have. I may try it in the future, but...

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Post by Bat » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:50 am

All sound measurements at overclockers.com are taken at 8", so it's consistent and easy and not too affected by background noise. Not unreasonable at all.

As for the block, I don't know what it's like but here is the inside of a slightly cheaper block from the same company:
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http://www.1a-cooling.de/
I think these people might well be making rather good things. Maybe they'll review the block alone at overclockers as well.

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