Corsair Water Cooling Kit

Finally here's a cooling kit that's easy to install, quieter than comparable HSFs and actually manages to demonstrate the awesome advantages of water cooling.

Corsair, made famous by its sticks of memory, has gone for a skinny dip. First with the external 'big black box' HydroCool we looked at many moons ago and now with this baby.

Simple in design, we easily put it together with no leakage in the recommended cycle of CPU block, reservoir, pump and radiator. Pipes are already connected to the CPU cooling block, otherwise the rest of the piping is up to you, a pair of a scissors and the supplied meter-long tubing.

Fastening the cooling block onto Chernobyl, we fired her up to the usual 80W. Smashing any preconceptions that memory manufacturers should stay with making memory sticks, it peaked at an incredibly low 38°C -- this, in an ambient room temperature of 26.5°C. Gob-slamming to say the least.

Keep in mind that the radiator is designed to use the exhaust, not fresh air like in our testing environment. The majority of the heat in the case, however, will now be gone -- albeit, not from the GPU as there is not yet an available cooling block.

The only issue we had with this kit was with the main manual. It's on CD -- and it's a damn good manual -- however it would've been even better in print. This of course isn't a problem for people with access to more than one machine.

In closing, it's about bloody time. Finally here's a cooling kit that's easy to install, quieter than comparable HSFs and actually manages to demonstrate the awesome advantages that water cooling brings to the table. And this really brings it. Kudos to Corsair.