Cebit 07 : Zalman Reserator XT - Actively cooled water cooling

[Digz]

Whats the betting it has some crappy aluminium radiator and they want £300 /
$590 / €445 EUR for it.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=8100

http://www.nokytech.net/cebit_07__zalman_reserator_xt-5887-a.html



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[Pete]

Zalman Reserator XT just says it all!!!

£300 seams about right

[JoeBar]

My next watercooling upgrade... :sick:

[serialk11r]

Hey, it looks familiar! Oh wait, duh :slapass: all external watercooling kits are like that! I wonder how well it performs!!! I bet it'll give me awesome temps, like 80C or something!
Not to mention those blocks are probably made from our favorite material: aluminum ;) oh and theres copper in it as well.

[Han$en]

LOL.. Expensive crap :D

How about Zalman upgraded there waterheads from Aloy to Copper instead of building new crappy external trashcans all the time :s

One love for my setup! :D

[teko]

Moat likely some alu in it :/ But looks nice :)

[masaville]

Nice looking, but performance is where it's at. If it can effectively cool a couple of 8800 GTXs under load as well as a top of the line, hand picked setup then I'll be impressed.

[_G_]

meh, if i wanted an ac condenser in a fancy box well...
http://www.yorkupg.com/ProductImages/Prodyork_ac_hp_affinity.gif

[masaville]

Moat likely some alu in it :/ But looks nice :)

Wouldn't doubt it. Their new blocks are still using aluminum. Bah!

[Han$en]

Wouldn't doubt it. Their new blocks are still using aluminum. Bah!

As i also wrote..

I don't think Zalman knows hvad copper is yet in the watercooling world..

[masaville]

As i also wrote..

I don't think Zalman knows hvad copper is yet in the watercooling world..

Aluminum is cheaper heh? My guess is that is the only reason they choose it...an acceptable alternative.

[dinos22]

Son, tell 'em they're dreamin'

[Han$en]

Aluminum is cheaper heh? My guess is that is the only reason they choose it...an acceptable alternative.

Well, you'r right..

If you only looking for a silent and a little better soulution than the stock coolers Zalman is okay, but...

I'll never touch it :stick:

[serialk11r]

Aluminum is cheaper heh? My guess is that is the only reason they choose it...an acceptable alternative.

Well they have gold plated bases, and aluminum tops......You should see some pictures of zalman blocks after a couple months of usage, completely black on the inside :fart: :shocked: :sick: :frag: Almost as bad as koolance, gold plated copper blocks, aluminum radiators :eek:

[masaville]

Well they have gold plated bases, and aluminum tops......You should see some pictures of zalman blocks after a couple months of usage, completely black on the inside :fart: :shocked: :sick: :frag: Almost as bad as koolance, gold plated copper blocks, aluminum radiators :eek:

Really? That sounds nasty.

[Han$en]

Really? That sounds nasty.

I'm on that comment! :sick:

[pplapeu]

meh, if i wanted an ac condenser in a fancy box well...
http://www.yorkupg.com/ProductImages/Prodyork_ac_hp_affinity.gif

You could get a water cooler off the wall in an office of school of something.

I doubt the Zalman cools high performance cards well in SLI or XFire.

[serialk11r]

You could get a water cooler off the wall in an office of school of something.

I doubt the Zalman cools high performance cards well in SLI or XFire.

I doubt it will prevent SLI cards from burning up.

[pplapeu]

this one is not much more, really:slapass:

[pplapeu]

Hey, it looks familiar! Oh wait, duh :slapass: all external watercooling kits are like that! I wonder how well it performs!!! I bet it'll give me awesome temps, like 80C or something!
Not to mention those blocks are probably made from our favorite material: aluminum ;) oh and theres copper in it as well.

......and some INSULATION to stop the sweating

[Omastar]

Does anyone else remember that loud, crappy, low-CFM add-on fan that came out for the original Reserator? Apparently they reneged and thought adding a loud fan for like a 1C drop in temps would attract more people.

[pplapeu]

Does anyone else remember that loud, crappy, low-CFM add-on fan that came out for the original Reserator? Apparently they reneged and thought adding a loud fan for like a 1C drop in temps would attract more people.

The cooling industry needs to RATE these things. Say like this: Does 700w cooling, 1000w of cooling. I think I have about 500+w of chips to cool on a thermal basis, but in general the whole thing is extremely vague.:fact:

[Fossil]

A reserator-style design made of copper would be even more disgustingly overpriced, particularly if you add on the cost of shipping all that weight about. Funny though, there's no shortage of glowingly enthusiastic reviews for this junk. Do web-journalists need bribes of mediocre w/c kit that badly?