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Posted by
Per Hansson
on July 13, 2001
Manufactured and Supplied by: CPUfx
The water container
and pump
I
can’t tell you how much I love this water container, its
CNC-machined out of aluminum and has an anodized blue
surface color, the bottom and top is also made of aluminum
but isn’t anodized, this makes the water tank look
absolutely fabulous!
The
pump is also one of the stronger ones on the market; with a
rating of 384 liters of water per hour, I understand why
they included the hose clips… Note, that they sell a dual
pump configuration, too, and just as you might guess, it
pumps twice as much water!
The
system only came with an UK wall kind of plug for the
European market, so the wall plug will have to be exchanged
to the one we have here in Scandinavia, if you live here.
It’s just a standard non-grounded cable so anyone can do
this…
The water block
It’s
made of pure copper and has a great flat and shiny surface,
the clip is also really neat because you can adjust its
height, to let you for example put a peltier and cold-plate
in between without any hassle at all. The clip also uses all
the “feet” on the CPU socket so thus I can use the clip
even though I have broken off one of the feet on my CPU
socket.
The
mounting-method I made for the Leufken
rig does not work here though, the hose inlets on the
water block is at the top of the water block where my flat
pliers should have been, but as I said this doesn’t matter
since the clip has such a smart design…
And
one last thing, they include a so-called “shim” for your
processor, these are really nice things, you just put it on
the processor and it prevents your water cooler or heat sink
from slipping of and crushing the core of your delicate CPU.
And there is one more good thing about it; the previous
models where made of copper and thus they could short out
your CPU if you where extremely unlucky, but this one is anodized
and thus doesn’t lead any current…
Thermal
pastes are also included, I got some “safety-paste” but
they do have Arctic silver to... But one thing I really
liked was something called “copper-cleaner”, copper
often leave a coating after a while but with this you remove
it and get that shiny surface back again, neat stuff!
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