Thermaltake Fanless Liquid Cooling System -- The ROCKET

daba · Post by **daba** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:35 pm

http://www.thermaltake.com/watercooling ... -w0011.htm

Houston, we're ready for take off.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:42 pm

Russ, does this look anything like the WACC?

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:58 pm

I will be considerate and keep this G-Rated, leaving out the obvious male anatomy that it resembles.

Looks like a Reserator with the pump gutted out. ~.~ Wonder if their pumps don't go out after 3 months ;P

Post by **Rusty075** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:11 pm

Halfway between a wacc P/A, and the Reserator.

Now Tt can have two sets of lawyers hounding them simultaineously.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:18 pm

So it's a Thermaltake Wack-o-rater.

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:32 pm

KEEP IT G-RATED! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:23 pm

Why did they put the cap on it? With a whole inteh center no less.

But slighty back on topic the tower does not have a pump integrated and teh pump has another res for itself?

Tis intersteing wonder how much it will be.

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:32 pm

The pump is external, so says the diagram on the site.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:42 pm

what i meant is why not stick the pump in the tower instead of giving it a second res.

perhaps i should not be typing this late.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:51 pm

The reason is because they're simply reusing this reservoir & pump unit from their older water cooling kit. It saves them on engineering costs to reuse parts from previous products.

-Ed

acaurora · Post by **acaurora** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:51 pm

That's a good question. Ask Thermaltake why didn't they just copy Zalman detail for detail? It would've been a better product.

Sizzle · Post by **Sizzle** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:37 am

How can you make a quiet system with this? I could not stop snickering at it.

In the imortal words of Beavis "boooooing!"

davidstone28 · Post by **davidstone28** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:46 pm

Thermaltake really have lost the plot

You gotta see some of their other products. I don't know what to make of that door! ROTFL.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:05 pm

could almost stick teh water cooling tower inteh front of this case

Kidding aside this cooling solution is interesting.

eander315 · Post by **eander315** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:40 pm

Seems like none of the big cooling companies are very concerned with galvanic corrosion. Copper heatsink, aluminum radiator. At least Zalman anodized theirs and gold-plated the waterblock. The fins on the Thermaltake unit look extremely small. I can't see how that thing is going to perform very well, even compared to the Reserator. The Thermaltake unit pushes the hot water to the top of the tower, but the Reserator can be modified to do the same with the addition of 1.5 feet of 3/8 ID tubing (the compression fitting on the intake side is already there, making the modification extremely easy). It would look pretty cool sitting next to a Reserator though

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:20 pm

eander315 wrote:Seems like none of the big cooling companies are very concerned with galvanic corrosion. Copper heatsink, aluminum radiator. At least Zalman anodized theirs and gold-plated the waterblock. The fins on the Thermaltake unit look extremely small. I can't see how that thing is going to perform very well, even compared to the Reserator. The Thermaltake unit pushes the hot water to the top of the tower, but the Reserator can be modified to do the same with the addition of 1.5 feet of 3/8 ID tubing (the compression fitting on the intake side is already there, making the modification extremely easy). It would look pretty cool sitting next to a Reserator though

That depends. You don't count Swiftech as a big company?

Bill A. would not be amused...

-Ed

Chris`I · Post by **Chris`I** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:17 am

Just like you say Ed, amazingly like the WACC pa-res I have under my desk.

One day, just one day, TT may have an original idea

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:02 pm

Chris`I wrote:One day, just one day, TT may have an original idea

Thermaltake Have an origional idea? *shudders*

Also ed does Bill A come around here? It would be funny to see his response.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:23 pm

DryFire wrote:
Chris`I wrote:One day, just one day, TT may have an original idea
Thermaltake Have an origional idea? *shudders*

Also ed does Bill A come around here? It would be funny to see his response.

Not as far as I can tell, unfortunately. I'd love to have him in our community!

-Ed

eander315 · Post by **eander315** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:17 am

Oooh, you're right. Bill would probably have a few (minimum 10?

) choice words for me if he saw that. So maybe I should qualify my statement by adding that Swiftech is beyond big. They're in a league of their own

bobkoure · Post by **bobkoure** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:54 am

eander315 wrote: At least Zalman anodized theirs...

Anodizing does not have to have a color. Hard to say if something aluminum colored is anodized or not...

elec999 · Post by **elec999** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:19 pm

How does it compare to the Zalman external cooler. And this may be offending, it looks kind of....
Thanks

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:41 pm

elec999 wrote:How does it compare to the Zalman external cooler. And this may be offending, it looks kind of....
Thanks

...like a...

Elixer · Post by **Elixer** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:26 pm

Edward Ng wrote:
...like a...

Rocket?

elec999 · Post by **elec999** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:25 pm

Honestly, I wouldnt buy this, just cause of the way it looks.
Thanks

ATWindsor · Post by **ATWindsor** » Sun May 15, 2005 2:14 am

elec999 wrote:How does it compare to the Zalman external cooler. And this may be offending, it looks kind of....
Thanks

I know that a lot of people here in norway bought the bigwater-set, because it was so cheap, and seemingly a good deal had problems with cracks in the plexi on the CPU-block and/or the pump giving up, the block and radiator seems to be the same on this one. Although I myself have the bigwater-set in my current (and noisy) computer (and it works fine), I think I will be buying the resirator for my next comp, I just seems like the ultimate in silent computing, effective and noiseless.

AtW

Reyn · Post by **Reyn** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:25 pm

A: Communist is evil!!!

B: How much do you know about communism?

A: Not much but I know they are evil!!

B: Why's that?

A: Because everyone else says it's evil.

This is exactly what people do. We have about 25 people in this thread bashing on this product. Now, how many of you out of this 25 actually OWN this product????? You hear people up in here say "How can this setup possibly be quiet?" and he has never even "heard" the noise of it, he's never even "seen" the product in action in real life.

I, personally own this product and I'd tell you it's DEAD SILENT. You cannot hear the pump AT ALL even when your ear is 5cm away from it. It cools really good, my CPU ( P4 2.8Ghz ) rests at 22'C. This product is certainly NOT for hardcore overclockers. But since this is a silent pc forum, who's into overclocking?

The setup is cheap, $230 australian dollars for the whole package. You really can't complain much.

Now, for those of you who have never used or even SEEN this product in real life, we appreciate your technical review which is based on a few simple Jpeg files and good luck finding a job as a hardware reviewer.

StarfishChris · Post by **StarfishChris** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:16 pm

Calm down, no need to make a generalisation because one (1) person made a generic bash. Great, it works, but personally I don't like the way it looks like a [rocket], and neither do other people...

Still, I'll forgive you, it must be hard knowing your Phantom's (supposedly) dying in 3 weeks!

Reyn wrote:But since this is a silent pc forum, who's into overclocking?

Who says you can't have a little overclock if you've got the headroom to do it? Plenty of regular members have done it.

Edward Ng · Post by **Edward Ng** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:17 pm

A) I'm into overclocking

B) I'm not bashing it at all, I'm just making fun of the name and look of it--there's a difference.

-Ed

tay · Post by **tay** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:33 pm

Reyn wrote:I, personally own this product and I'd tell you it's DEAD SILENT. You cannot hear the pump AT ALL even when your ear is 5cm away from it. It cools really good, my CPU ( P4 2.8Ghz ) rests at 22'C.

Below ambient? EDIT : I meant temperature not noise. Anyway nitpicking so ignore me...

Reyn wrote:Now, for those of you who have never used or even SEEN this product in real life, we appreciate your technical review which is based on a few simple Jpeg files and good luck finding a job as a hardware reviewer.

No reason to be a jerk just cuz people are making fun of the way it looks (which is admittedly quite funny).