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Koolance PC3-720BK Review

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Great review, but one thing really stuck out.

We, as a hardware community, have always used Celsius for temperatures, why the move to Fahrenheit? I'm not sure if I'm alone on this, but temperatures in Celsius are much easier to understand, it was a PITA to convert temps.
 
Probably because this Kyle's'site, and he tends to things his own way. ;)
 
Also of note, the reviewer advised to use a 50/50 mix of antifreeze and distilled water, which is too rich a mixture. You only need 10/20% antifreeze, more just hurts temperatures for little extra anti-corrosion benefit. Just something that jumped out at me, besides the overall poor cooling (The thing couldn't even keep up with the pos Maze4)
 
The similarities are remarkable, yes? Only difference appears to be a higher performing system at a considerably lesser price. Thus the mention that Koolance was pricing themselves out of the market place. The system built by Sharka uses the same case and has about the same heat dissipating qualities and uses a Koolance CPU block...
 
Top Nurse said:
The similarities are remarkable, yes? Only difference appears to be a higher performing system at a considerably lesser price. Thus the mention that Koolance was pricing themselves out of the market place. The system built by Sharka uses the same case and has about the same heat dissipating qualities and uses a Koolance CPU block...
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Gawdalmighty, I see what you mean!!! $500!!! That's $260 on top of the cost of the case.
 
What do you all think about and older Koolance the PCS-601BLW.

I found it for 100 bucks here. The resellerrating is crappy but thats a good price. I i just want to fool around with it use it as a tester b4 i build my real system
 
Sounds like a deal. Even if you don't like it some noob on Ebay will pay big bucks for it ;-) All kidding aside, make sure you get a CPU-300 series cooler. I think they go for about $50 and you can plug & pray in a couple of quick hours.
 
For those prices, you can get a non-ghetto case and a high-end setup. I was slowly getting interested in Koolance because of the ease of use, but the performance for the price is abysmal. :( Looks like another custom jobby for me.
 
I am still going to build my custom rig....this is just for shits and giggles . No sense in having a super quiet gaming rig and a fileserver that sounds like an F-18 :cool:
 
mwarps said:
"For those prices, you can get a non-ghetto case and a high-end setup. I was slowly getting interested in Koolance..., but the performance for the price is abysmal."
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My sentiments as well (and I'm a EXOS gal ;-). $350 is way out of my ballpark when I figure in the dismal performance as seen in the recent PC3-720 review, which the EXOS II will be based on. How much of that bad performance is related to using case air remains to be seen. But, I decided to do a Koolance/DIY hybrid the day before the review came out. Check out this thread!

BTW, I like your diction :)

But for the question asked the case is a good deal, IMHO
 
As a long term lurker and a short term poster I apologize if my question has already been addressed. I was wondering why, in article after article when being told to be wary of the temps reported by the Bios, in the latest review of the Koolance 720 case Kyle eschews the temps reported by the Koolance probe and ops for the Bios reported ones?
 
No idea but nothing beat metal on metal contact for the best possible reading. The probe would seem the surest route to take
 
Top Nurse said:
My sentiments as well (and I'm a EXOS gal ;-). $350 is way out of my ballpark when I figure in the dismal performance as seen in the recent PC3-720 review, which the EXOS II will be based on. How much of that bad performance is related to using case air remains to be seen. But, I decided to do a Koolance/DIY hybrid the day before the review came out. Check out this thread!

BTW, I like your diction :)

But for the question asked the case is a good deal, IMHO
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I'll head over and check out the Hybrid. My diction? If you mean my mediocre command of the english language, then thank you, I think :)
 
As a long term lurker and a short term poster I apologize if my question has already been addressed. I was wondering why, in article after article when being told to be wary of the temps reported by the Bios, in the latest review of the Koolance 720 case Kyle eschews the temps reported by the Koolance probe and ops for the Bios reported ones?
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Well I suppose you need something to compare and that gives you a sensor to use that won't change during different system testing. The temps produced in the test runs are not all that important, per se. What's important is the difference between the various units.

One of my big bitches with tests of this nature is that it really does not tell us much. What is important, IMHO, is how much faster can you go with the chip considering the cooling effect of the processor. So if Koolance ran 5* hotter is ho hum if it can still cool down a big OC box. The rest of the world doesn't seem to go along with our "bigger is better" philosophy so...
 
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