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Water-Cooling Product of the Year 2005 - WaterChill Extreme kit |
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006 |
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 VL's Editor's Choices of 2005: "The WaterChill Extreme kit will not be for everyone, especially given the size of the massive radiator which won't make installation easy for midtower cases, but we're talking about the best water-cooling on the market [...] The asetek WaterChill Extreme KT...
VL's Editor's Choices of 2005:
Another year has gone by, and we gather up our list of who rocked, and who sucked.
Water-Cooling Product of the Year - asetek WaterChill Extreme
'The WaterChill Extreme kit will not be for everyone, especially given the size of the massive radiator which won't make installation easy for midtower cases, but we're talking about the best water-cooling on the market.
Performance is great; be it silence or low temperatures you are after, the asetek WaterChill Extreme kit will provide you with both options. Even when the system is running at it's quietest, the performance is very good, and at full speed (loud, but not overly so; I've heard louder air cooling solutions that didn't perform half as well) the temperatures are simply the lowest I've seen, and the lowest I'm likely to see short of chilling the water.
The kit isn't cheap, but when you total up the costs of all the individual components it does become a fair price for the performance. I've become quite accustomed to being able to right click the tray icons and choose a profile for the system load, and I've no doubt that others will find it as equally efficient. The silence is great, the kit is very complete and there aren't any real glaring issues aside from the two I mentioned. Highly recommended, there isn't much on the market that can compete with this kind of performance, and none offer the software control of the pump and fan speeds. There is a 1/2' version of this kit, but considering the temperatures we have seen here I do have to wonder if it would make any difference to the performance over the 10mm kit. The asetek WaterChill Extreme KT12AT-12VX/10mm is absolutely fantastic; I'm in love with it.
Bottom Line is if you have the cash and you want the best, there is very little on the market that can compete. Add in the software control and you have a very impressive setup to cool your main system components'.
[Viperlair.com]
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