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A review was posted on the [H]'s mainpage today for the (new?) Kingwin watercooling kit...
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?LineID=&CateID=31&ID=187
That looks very attractive to me. Fits snugly into a regular 5.25 bay, slick interface, very professional and good looking. Includes cpu and gpu blocks, all for about a hundred bucks shipped.
Where is the catch? In looking at the size of that thing, it can't have much of a resevoir at all. And while it does have two radiators, Only one of them has a pump... and I can't seem to find the Gp/h rating on that pump...
I'm mostly looking at watercooling for the noise/nifty factors here. My family thinks that my howling CPU fan of death uses more electricity than a TV. quiet = not energy consuming to them, so a nice half silent watercooled comp would rock. I need a setup that I can devote a day to getting running, and then not muck around with much at all (I understand the need to top it off every now and again)
I also lan a lot, will being layed on it's side and bounced around in a car seat for a few hours cause this thing to shit itself? Again the fact that it is a closed, internal system is very appealing here.
So, anyone have opinions on this thing? For a hundred dollars, it's mighty appealing. Aesthetically I'd have some green UV in the water, probably replace the fan on the aux radiator with one of the UV fans i have now so everything matches, depending on whatever speed control mechanism it uses.
If I do get it, it'll not be till my next check hits in two weeks. I'll keep looking for reviews that are less than glowing till then, and certainly appreciate any input you guys can give me.
Now for stupid newbie questions: what is water wetter? does it work/is it worth it?
Why do all the kits come with antifreeze? comps shouldn't be getting frozen, and IIRC water is a better coolant than antifreeze....
Does having a resevoir affect anything other than how often you have to top off the fluid?
Is a dual 120-mm fan heater core required to keep the computer at "not melting itself" temperatures?
http://www.kingwin.com/pdut_detail.asp?LineID=&CateID=31&ID=187
That looks very attractive to me. Fits snugly into a regular 5.25 bay, slick interface, very professional and good looking. Includes cpu and gpu blocks, all for about a hundred bucks shipped.
Where is the catch? In looking at the size of that thing, it can't have much of a resevoir at all. And while it does have two radiators, Only one of them has a pump... and I can't seem to find the Gp/h rating on that pump...
I'm mostly looking at watercooling for the noise/nifty factors here. My family thinks that my howling CPU fan of death uses more electricity than a TV. quiet = not energy consuming to them, so a nice half silent watercooled comp would rock. I need a setup that I can devote a day to getting running, and then not muck around with much at all (I understand the need to top it off every now and again)
I also lan a lot, will being layed on it's side and bounced around in a car seat for a few hours cause this thing to shit itself? Again the fact that it is a closed, internal system is very appealing here.
So, anyone have opinions on this thing? For a hundred dollars, it's mighty appealing. Aesthetically I'd have some green UV in the water, probably replace the fan on the aux radiator with one of the UV fans i have now so everything matches, depending on whatever speed control mechanism it uses.
If I do get it, it'll not be till my next check hits in two weeks. I'll keep looking for reviews that are less than glowing till then, and certainly appreciate any input you guys can give me.
Now for stupid newbie questions: what is water wetter? does it work/is it worth it?
Why do all the kits come with antifreeze? comps shouldn't be getting frozen, and IIRC water is a better coolant than antifreeze....
Does having a resevoir affect anything other than how often you have to top off the fluid?
Is a dual 120-mm fan heater core required to keep the computer at "not melting itself" temperatures?