Although it's gotten good reviews, many here don't seem to like the Zalman Reserator XT much. But for a newbie to WC, it's a great jump start. At about $450 for the Reserator plus the GPU block, it costs more than the component and semi kits usually discussed here But it's all in one, easy to install, whisper quite, and it works well enough if you aren't going for the bleeding edge. I'm cooling an 8800GTX and QX6700 OC'd 20% from 2.66GHz to 3.2GHz. Running Prime95, core temps stay in the 60s, 40s on normal load. Same thing on air ran 85, too hot to use.
So I'm happy I got it and probably wouldn't have attempted WC otherwise. Perhaps the next one will be from components. But for me, for now, the Reserator XT has been a great introduction to WC.
So I'm happy I got it and probably wouldn't have attempted WC otherwise. Perhaps the next one will be from components. But for me, for now, the Reserator XT has been a great introduction to WC.