Thank you for your brillant review of myself and www.overclockers.com. It is always appreciated.
Let's go over several things: Overclockers.com reviews HSF's and watercooling components on a REGULAR BASIS. Tom's does not. Overclockers.com liked the Innovatek kit, which is perfectly fine and understandable. It IS a good kit with quality construction. (although, that use of differing metals in the same waterblock gets to me) I wasn't talking about the quality of the kit, I was referring to how the article was written. It was completely aimed at advertising for Innovatek. Did you see their previous review of Innovatek vs. Swiftech? They didn't even put the fan on Swiftech's radiator!
1: The title sucked: "Silent and Ice Cold" I hate to tell them, but temps in the 90's to 100's is NOT ice cold. Perhaps you should visit our forums, where many of our members have refrigerated systems commonly running in the negative C* range.
2: The reviewer makes it seem as if ALL PARTS of the kit are required. Most people don't need watercooling, and the few that do usually have it only on the CPU. If you feel like putting it on your northbridge and your GPU, that's fine, too. It's ok with this situation, because he was using a new MSI GeF4 Ti4600, which run nice and toasty. Very few people run these cards now, and the ones that do and think that they need this most likely already know how to watercool. I have no idea why they have the "hard drive cooler," unless you're running lots of hot IBM hard drives, you should be fine. Also, a hard drive cooler should cool the top and bottom, where the spindle is. Not the sides.
3: I can guarantee that the average consumer's computer case does NOT have 8 fans in it, like what was said in the article.
4: "A little extra pocket change." I don't know too many people who have an extra $338 that they can just lay down and buy a watercooling system without thinking about it.
5: Tom gloats over how they got the video in 3 languages. Well, good for him. Wow, what an accomplishment.
6: They said that Innovatek owns the watercooling market. Most hardcore watercooling people don't use Innovatek, they use something better.
7: I love the way that they were talking about how silent the system is, and then they say that they ran the fan at 5 volts. What average joe sixpack is going to hack the lines coming from his PSU to make his system quiet? If they're going to show someone how to have a "silent & ice cold" PC, they should show them EVERYTHING, including the 5v mod.
8. "The best radiator currently available." They pretend that they know plenty about watercooling, and yet they say THIS. If you know watercooling, you know that a heater core is the way to go. They're the least flow restrictive, and usually the best for the job. They're also cheap compared to this thing; you can get the right one from any automotive parts store.
9: "You should not use silver paste because the copper contact plate is very flat." Obviously this reviewer knows very little about CPU cooling. No matter how flat you "think" the waterblock is, there are always microscopic hills, valleys, and ridges that need to be filled in. Arctic Silver III does this; it's the best out of all thermal pastes. BTW, if you DO use silione goop, don't put a huge blob on the core like ther reviewer did. That REDUCES cooling. Too much of the thermal compound will greatly reduce heat transfer from the CPU to the waterblock. You only need a little.
10: I like how he says that "distilled water is best," but shows 2 other colored options. I also like how he'll get stuff living in his sytem after a while. He could have at least mentioned using water wetter to reduce the surface tension (must better than soap) and to help kill biologicals.
11: The conclusion, "High Performance and Silent Operation " could have used some work. Where is the evidence for this "High Performance and Silent Operation,"?? He did not show us temps, nor did he measure sound. He just expects us to believe how well it works. Also, the first paragraph of the conclusion is a complete advertisement for Innovatek:
"None of the well-known manufacturers offer PC systems with perfect cooling for all components (CPU, graphics card, chipset, hard disk) and noiseless operation as well - this is what we achieve with the PC system that we built here."
I'd have to say that Koolance does. And, they didn't "build" a cooling system. They had the parts shipped to them to test, they put a few waterblocks on, and connected a few water lines. Wow, that's really "building" a watercooling system. Why don't you come over to overclockers, where plenty of people "build" their own systems. They mill their own waterblocks. That's "building" your own system. Buying a complete kit isn't "building" your own system.
As to your comments:
"I know nothing about this product..." If you don't know about something, ASK before posting about it. It's better to keep your mouth shut and look like an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Trying to demean my intelligence just shows the lack of your own.
"i just know bulls**t when i see it"---then why did you post?
"If he looked at his own page once in a while he could see overclockers review of the innovatek there"---I do look at it. EVERY time I open up my browser, as it is my homepage. I also read the Innovatek review the day that it came out. And, unlike Tom's review, it was unbiased.
PS: Flaming in forums is usually frowned upon.
Have a good day, sir.
CharlesHF
Soyo Dragon+ Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ AGKGA-Y
H20 Bong Cooled
256MB DDR RAM
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