Funky AC Ryan Reservoir

[barfastic]

http://www1.acryan.com/_liquidevolution/ACR-TB80005.shtml

http://www1.acryan.com/_liquidevolution/ACR-TB80005.jpg


came across this today, real funky, but it seems the spiral design can only be that color, think it would be awesome in red, sorta like a DNA strand!

and im not sure if that liquid inside it, or a design and the liquid goes in the area around it.

what u guys think?

[3lfk1ng]

The liquid goes into it just like a res. but the green thing actually swirls on the inside as the liquid is flowing through it. Kinda like this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-FsJdcbRWI&feature=related)

[goramus]

The liquid goes into it just like a res. but the green thing actually swirls on the inside as the liquid is flowing through it. Kinda like this one.

man thats just so bad ass looking! :pimp: :rocker: why dont we see more of them like that? is there some drawback or something?

[3lfk1ng]

why dont we see more of them like that?

Check out WizD... it's where he posts his worklogs. (http://www.wizdforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4883)
Same place I posted my case mod in the sig :)

[Cptn Vortex]

I want a lava lamp in my computer. Which gives me an idea....what if you were to add some sort of Oil into your loop.....would it look cool like that, with little beads flowing through the system??

[MaXXimus]

I thought I read about that res being a limited edition. Cause as soon as I saw it I was like "MUST HAVE MUST HAVE". But cant find them anywhere... shame someone doesnt mass produce them.

[WoZZeR999]

No, the pump would break those beads apart.

[goramus]

I thought I read about that res being a limited edition. Cause as soon as I saw it I was like "MUST HAVE MUST HAVE". But cant find them anywhere... shame someone doesnt mass produce them.

Dude i was thinking the exact same thing! WANT!! :worship:

[barfastic]

get in contact with acryan apparently some dude Tribal<insert hardcore sounding name here> makes them. maybe if we can get in contact with him, he can make us a few, as a group buy or something.

i know i want one, not for my UFO build, but to have, think it might be cool, when 1/2 the water cooled population forgets about them, and u go BAM! new setup with uber cool res! (sorta like an antique classic car in mint condition!)

[dnb#]

he's dutch. Seen more work from him...on casejunkies.nl (it's down since 6 months)

[barfastic]

hmmm... seems i found a store... IN GREECE that sells them :P
http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.809556

we dont ahve thermochill, we dont ahve DTEK, but we have weird ac ryan reservoirs!

oh and there is a shield that goes over it for more BLING
http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.809558

http://www.e-shop.gr/images/PER/PER.809558.jpg

[Xilikon]

It's TribalOverkill who make them and it's always some custom runs. The best bet is to contact him directly (If you aren't sure how to do, ask DarthBeavis as he have some stuff being made by him currently).

[Stealth42o]

get in contact with acryan apparently some dude Tribal<insert hardcore sounding name here> makes them. maybe if we can get in contact with him, he can make us a few, as a group buy or something.


x2 for the group buy!!!!!

[gmod]

x3 for group buy I need 3 of those bad boys

[MaXXimus]

x4 for group buy cause I think I just found an excuse to run 3xPA120.3 now.

[rioja]

oh, resident evil style
amazing!

[Kayin]

pah, I make my own. +1 for home polycarbonate lab.

[Flip_Lx]

he has a work log of the 2 res posted up on [h] as well

[DarthBeavis]

I think I heard of this guy before ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OlbMoyOwnw&feature=related
http://www.dangerden.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9971
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/5210/dsc06312largeur6.th.jpg (http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc06312largeur6.jpg)http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3875/dsc00048ei5.th.jpg (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00048ei5.jpg)

PM me your email and such and I will forward it to him. He is reall busy tho . . .AC Ryan will be producing Spinner Resevoirs at some point so they will be more widely available.
He does great work . . .just hope he does not loose too many digits . . .

[The[R]eaper]

yeah i saw a a really cool case he did called "Blackout" at thebestcasescenario.com here (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=745).

[NaeKuh]

dude...

you guys crack me up.

Since when was the migration on to full bling? Having things like that in the res would add to restrictions. sharp objects causes flow reduction with then causes less performance.

If its using the flow to spin it like that, think of the restriction its causing. If it was free flowing, it shouldnt move at all.

Bling should have its limits. This is XS people.

[cadaveca]

Yeah, it's XS, but hardware of today just doesn't produce the heat it used to, so things like this are definately possible in a loop, whereas even a year ago, the perforamnce drop would have been to large to even consider. Drop this into a chipset/mosfet loop, or at the end of VGA loop...sounds good to me...

[welshtom]

I have one of the shields still in stock :):):).

The res' came to the UK, Think 15 it was, I had about 10 of them. All went on pre-orders alone.

He should make more I agree!
Although my dual chamber is a pain to bleed as the actual capacity is tiny.

Tom

[jadeskye]

ha you know someone is gonna make one of these with like two spirals resembling a double helix. hey i'd buy one XD

[barfastic]

dude...

you guys crack me up.

Since when was the migration on to full bling? Having things like that in the res would add to restrictions. sharp objects causes flow reduction with then causes less performance.

If its using the flow to spin it like that, think of the restriction its causing. If it was free flowing, it shouldnt move at all.

Bling should have its limits. This is XS people.

the helix spins on a motor. atleast thats what i understood from his video on youtube.

[jadeskye]

I've just found it in the UK but man is it expensive. this will run you &#163;65

http://www.aqua-pcs.co.uk/liquid-evolution-reservoir---xpo35r-ft-spinfx-1198-p.asp?uid=94626317208

[barfastic]

70 euros here, so probably cheaper, but still for a res its too much imo.

[DarthBeavis]

dude...

you guys crack me up.

Since when was the migration on to full bling? Having things like that in the res would add to restrictions. sharp objects causes flow reduction with then causes less performance.

If its using the flow to spin it like that, think of the restriction its causing. If it was free flowing, it shouldnt move at all.

Bling should have its limits. This is XS people.

BS . . .performance plus asthetics. Bling is nice. You probably will whine that my custom phase unit is airbrushed. So maybe they look will have a 1c delta . . .big deal.

[DarthBeavis]

I am gonna ask Tribal to head over to this thread.

[tribaloverkill]

Hey guys. About pricing,... for those xPO's I had no control over pricing. They are expensive because there's a limited number of them and they were all handmade. It took me MONTHS to make all those. A lot longer then we hoped for. This reservoir probably wont be made again. The same with any limited edition and custom reservoirs made by me. Soon there will be many reservoirs to choose all varying in price. Mass production reservoirs produced by acryan will be the cheapest. Next in line will be massed reservoirs made by me. Then there will be limited editions which will never be made again. And lastly,... the customs:) The customs are going to be the most expensive, 600+ depending on what you want. Customs go into great detail. I really bend over backwards to make these. They are precious to me and will be to you when you get it. Just ask DB:) I'm working on filling the studio with more equipment,... machines, tools, and services like airbrushing, annodizing, TIG'ing, etc. If you guys think this stuff is cool now, wait till later when I have everything I need to take all this to the next step:) Gawd I can't wait.

[barfastic]

MAN NEITHER CAN I!!!!!!
btw you rocked in that video your dancing and "sanding" that peice down. lol
+1 for being imba :P

[Stealth42o]

Thanks tribal, I apreciate the response.

Post up a link when you get a website up and running with your sales. I'l pick one up!

Outstanding craftsmanship, Again thanks!

[tribaloverkill]

LOL. Thanks guys:)

[NaeKuh]

BS . . .performance plus asthetics. Bling is nice. You probably will whine that my custom phase unit is airbrushed. So maybe they look will have a 1c delta . . .big deal.

uhh....

airbrushing a phase case doesnt do anything. You didnt modify any of the internal compressors to bling it out. How is this simular? It would be like me painting the exterior of my reservoir. Not a good comparison bro, it would be more like you putting loops in your evap head because it looks cooler and blingier.

Adding restrictions in a reservoir will do something. Im not saying its not nice, cuz i know tribals works. Its very nice, however its not what you would mount on a performance system.

And if it was bling all the way, we'd all be on zalmans. Its blingy, does an OK job at cooling a system. But we dont use it because, its not peak.

And lately XS has been migrating to bling. This makes me sad. Every other forum in this world focuses on bling. XS is our sanctuary from bling to see RAW performance. Thats why its called xtreme, and thats why your on phase no?

Any other forum, id probably not comment, but gosh, this is XS. This is the forum were most of the World Record breakers are regulars, This is where people also probably get about 70-80&#37; of there info on new h2o eq.

And once a XIP or Martin posts results saying x is better then y, company Y is in a lot of trouble no matter how blingy it is. :T

If you think that res is free flowing, loan it to martin. Have him run a flow test on it. If its as good as a MPC universal, i'll give it a thumbs up. Otherwise why would you want to drop an additional restriction to your component? :shrug:

That i dont understand, expecially when were warning newbies to h2o cooling about FLOW/Head Pressure in the first place. Why else you guys also think martin's flow calculator is sticked?

Once again: Tribal Dont get me wrong, your work is absolutely beautiful. However, it looks massively restrictive cuz of that spiral loop. Also looks like it would give hell bleeding because we see it on the EK250's even. If you want full support from all XS members, you would need to loan martin one for him to throw on his flow bench bed. Once results come out, if there good, i predict, your sales will double.

Otherwise i think iany will be coming in soon to give his peace as well and later to follow the other regulars who advocate performance. :T

Also Tribal incase your wondering who martin is, he's our BillAdams replacement. Wonderful guy who i myself trusted about 600 dollars in h2o gear, and he returned them all back the way i sent it after testing. Definitely a Great guy and hopefully a long time friend of mine from now on. :up:

He also does flow tests for DangerDen, And XSPC. So yeah, he's very reputable.

[cadaveca]

i agree, let's see some tests!

[Martinm210]

Taking requests to see which color UV dye has the greatest specific heat and heat capacity next?

I'm thinking blue performs better than red...:rolleyes:

This seems to fit right in with my wife's recent "accent wall" in our house...:D

[IanY]

We have whole threads dedicated to which color looks right in which tube, and which tube looks better, and which water block looks better, and if there's a difference its just 1C to 2C, or 3C.. what's the big deal.. Let's all have 6mm/8mm tubing. It just looks better. We have a guy have 12 iterations of the same machine, changing tubing and fluid faster than my wife changes shoes, all that trouble to take a couple of photographs so that the whole forum can ooogle and go OOOooooOO. For crying out loud, we have people spray painting their water block hold down adapters and then showing them off. Excuse me, I'm going to go chrome plate the thumbscrews to my machine now.

The whole thing is going down the crapper.

I'm not as eloquent as Naekuh, and he has expressed all I have to say anyway. I have a simple mind. You can put a tuxedo on a pig and then send the piggie to the ballet, regardless of how fine the tuxedo looks, and whether Armani or LaCroix made that tuxedo. At the end of a day, a pig is a pig. Nothing's better than exposing piggies than objective testing. However, like they say.. if it snorts like one and and smells like one....

[Kingslayer]

Do you have a thing to messure conductivity of coolants so we could test and see what they will do to our hardware. for the test i would suggest normal water fresh distilled water some old water out of a loop and than water with diffrent additives... cause somewhere on the internet i saw that the uv additives raise the conductivity offer the lvl of normal water. Would be interesting ore?

[ubermensch]

This little piggy thinks its eye candy!

[cadaveca]

However, like they say.. if it snorts like one and and smells like one....


Someone else said: "Build it, and they will come"


But the problem is that all the hardware is crap when it comes to high-end stuff. So what do we spend our money for our hobby on? Hardware we know doesn't work right, or something that is gonna have a minimal impact, and pleases the eye?

I'm sry, but you've got noone to blame except the manufacturer's in this case...give us working parts, we'll buy 'em. give us crappy parts, we'll spend our money on "bling".

I mean really..I got DDR3, QX9650, 2xHD3870x2's...sound card, physics card, tuner card, what else can I buy? :stick:

Personally, I use a t-line, no res EVAR!!! BUt when friends come over, I used to be able to say "Look how awesome this game looks on my pc..."

I can't say that now. SO, I gotta say "Look how awesome this metal box that used to be my pc looks!":shakes:

I'm not gonna say "Look! I got 4 videocards, $1000 cpu, and it plays like ass!", thanks. :shakes:

[barfastic]

im sorry if by posting this i started some sort of war :S

This is going to a whole new level. lets take this to some better place, under a new topic name, in a new section.

I posted this because i thought it looked cool, i didnt tell anyone to go buy it or else id kill them, nor am i going to go buy it myself. You know how you see a nice new car, could look insane, and not perform too good, yet people go and buy it, or gasp at it. why? cause even though performance is nice, some people like eye candy aswell. Not everyone can get a Ferrari, and not everyone wants a Nissan.

why would someone want a YUGO Zastava (Yugoslavian car for those who dont know) that does 0-60 in 2 seconds and a quarter mile in under 7s? so you go buy a pair of rims, 1 inch larger than stock, OMG you just lost like 0.01s on your quarter mile!!!!!! Bad YUGO! i mean come on, performance isnt everything, if it was all manufacturers would build blocks would be plain square blocks, no derlin or acetal, no plexiglass, nothing, pump tops would be squares with no particular edges to match the actual pump etc... the list can go on forever.

So if you wanna talk about how XS went from vrooum too bling, make a new thread somewhere, make a poll. i know im new round here, but forums should be clean. what topic title is thats what should be in the posts below.

thats my 2 cents...

[Pedalmonkey]

LOVE THE YUGO:P!! almost as good as the LADA!! lol. srry, thread derailment, plz continue the flaming, i enjoy it thoroughly.

[Martinm210]

Fair enough...it really doesn't matter with computer parts. I just liked the die hard "performance matters most" presence that was apparrent in the forums before.

I guess if we were all truely die hard performance only people, we'd still all be running heater cores too...

It's all good..

[NaeKuh]

If it was all manufacturers would build blocks would be plain square blocks, no derlin or acetal, no plexiglass, nothing, pump tops would be squares with no particular edges to match the actual pump etc... the list can go on forever.

So if you wanna talk about how XS went from vrooum too bling, make a new thread somewhere, make a poll. i know im new round here, but forums should be clean. what topic title is thats what should be in the posts below.

thats my 2 cents...

Last time i checked the most popular blocks were square, the d-tek is square, the GTX is square, the Enzo is also square, Alphacool's is square, zalman is circle, koolance was square and then circle, the ek is oval.

Choice in tops isnt soley for bling, if you think that, boy, you have a lot of reading to do.

Last i checked all DDC tops were plain square, well my alphacool dual ddc one is more of a rectangle. Some came out with res' combo's yet most of them dont perform very well in bleeding minus the XSPC. :shrug:
EDIT: OCLABS!! its not square! your right i forgot about that one! its more of a funky stock top with hole in the middle. But anyhow, most besides that is a plain square.

You sure you know your h2o eq tho? you sound like you dont. :shrug:

And this is XS, we debate about every product out there. We presented our side, the vendor presented his side. Now we just need a third party to find out whose right and whose wrong.

If you think we will jump on the bandwagon because something looks good, you gotta be kidding us. If you came here thinking that, you'll be sadly shocked. Were not the easy type to please.

And i have nothing against BLING as long as the performance/Objectives can be met. IF this res performs as well as say, a micro or EK, then yeah, its a good res with nice bling.

However say it doesnt... can i recomend koolance products to you? that silverstone watercooling setup is also pretty blingy. OH! AquaComputers AquaGate is fairly dope as well, TT has a radiator which you can strap onto a gpu, thats pretty cool. :shakes:

<the last paragraph was sarcasm, all of those products we offically ban'd on XS>
:T

Tribal, do you have any flow results on it? If not can you send one to martin on a loan to test out. That will settle this thread. :yepp:

[Canadmos]

As long as you enjoy what you are doing....who cares?

[DarthBeavis]

uhh....

airbrushing a phase case doesnt do anything. You didnt modify any of the internal compressors to bling it out. How is this simular? It would be like me painting the exterior of my reservoir. Not a good comparison bro, it would be more like you putting loops in your evap head because it looks cooler and blingier.

Adding restrictions in a reservoir will do something. Im not saying its not nice, cuz i know tribals works. Its very nice, however its not what you would mount on a performance system.

And if it was bling all the way, we'd all be on zalmans. Its blingy, does an OK job at cooling a system. But we dont use it because, its not peak.

And lately XS has been migrating to bling. This makes me sad. Every other forum in this world focuses on bling. XS is our sanctuary from bling to see RAW performance. Thats why its called xtreme, and thats why your on phase no?

Any other forum, id probably not comment, but gosh, this is XS. This is the forum were most of the World Record breakers are regulars, This is where people also probably get about 70-80&#37; of there info on new h2o eq.

And once a XIP or Martin posts results saying x is better then y, company Y is in a lot of trouble no matter how blingy it is. :T

If you think that res is free flowing, loan it to martin. Have him run a flow test on it. If its as good as a MPC universal, i'll give it a thumbs up. Otherwise why would you want to drop an additional restriction to your component? :shrug:

That i dont understand, expecially when were warning newbies to h2o cooling about FLOW/Head Pressure in the first place. Why else you guys also think martin's flow calculator is sticked?

Once again: Tribal Dont get me wrong, your work is absolutely beautiful. However, it looks massively restrictive cuz of that spiral loop. Also looks like it would give hell bleeding because we see it on the EK250's even. If you want full support from all XS members, you would need to loan martin one for him to throw on his flow bench bed. Once results come out, if there good, i predict, your sales will double.

Otherwise i think iany will be coming in soon to give his peace as well and later to follow the other regulars who advocate performance. :T

Also Tribal incase your wondering who martin is, he's our BillAdams replacement. Wonderful guy who i myself trusted about 600 dollars in h2o gear, and he returned them all back the way i sent it after testing. Definitely a Great guy and hopefully a long time friend of mine from now on. :up:

He also does flow tests for DangerDen, And XSPC. So yeah, he's very reputable.
Edited to maintain harmony and geeky brotherly love

[NaeKuh]

edited: to keep things peaceful and clean.

[barfastic]

Last time i checked the most popular blocks were square, the d-tek is square, the GTX is square, the Enzo is also square, Alphacool's is square, zalman is circle, koolance was square and then circle, the ek is oval.

By plain square i mean no grooves or branding or anything. i have read up on my h20 eq, and ive studied martins flow spreadsheet alot.

now, i dont want to get into an argument with anyone here, for any reason, becasue i like the atmosphere here, but in reality if someone wants that reservoir, no matter how it performs do you think XS, or ANY XS will make them change there mind? probably not. because people like different things.

anyways, im stopping because i see this conv getting into an argument.

So lets wait on results...

[Xilikon]

Settle down guys, this thread isn't about pushing a product on everyone's throats !!! If someone want the bling, they are free to get it as long as he know what he is getting in terms of performance. As TribalOverkill said himself, they are mostly custom or limited runs so not everyone will get them so what ?

As long as we educate everyone that performance should matter more than bling and that bling should only be a bonus, we can keep the reputation of a forum pushing for the best performance products. In the end, it's the users money which decide the fate of everything and that's why Koolance is still floating (unfortunately for me).

[DarthBeavis]

*sigh* you completely missed my point and took that entire post as a flame.

What do i know about watercooling? well i think i know enough when something looks like it will do good and bad.

Did i question your moding skills or anything? No all i said was adding a paint job on the case wouldnt hinder the performance of the product at all. Am i right or wrong on this statement? If your taking offense that im calling your airbrush skills a regular paint job, then i appologize, its a pretty hot job, but its still paint on a case if you boil down to it no?

I think i compared it to like painting the exterior of a reservoir. Which wouldnt hurt or help performance unless it was a passive radiator.

Then i said, bling is okey, but not at the cost of performance which you and i both believe in, because you said you want both. Im sure you wouldnt compromise performance, you'd modify the bling. Or am i wrong? You are the world class moder.

And my comment about looping the evap head, would that or would it not hurt performance if you looped it? You'd probably know better, but i figure extending it, would lose performance. And you'd need to extend it quite a bit to loop it that many times. Or is my thinking wrong?

And would adding something in your loop which hurts flow help or hurt your performance in a h2o loop? I hope you do know the answer to this because the top scenario and this one is very simular.

And did i not finish with the last comment to Tribal if he had any flow graph data on it? or If he was willing to loan martin out a unit to test it out on?

Sit back and relax pal, im not out to hurt anyone's pride. Im only being very subjective in a informational post.


Also: did you miss this quote?


That doesnt sound like a good newbie friendly res which the first 4 posts seemed to have with people wishing on a group buy. No, wont recomend this kind of res to a newbie. Bleeding is VERY imporant. However if the flow is still good, it would still be alright, which is why im asking Tribal for some flow charts.

And beavis, im not a phase master, but I know enough about water and also hold enough influence. Im not going to support something which hurts that performance for an added bling. Nor will i let newbies fall in that trap either. Thats the whole point in this section is it not? Just like the phase section, we teach people what is okey and why, and whats not, and why, and then let them decide.

You shouldnt ever let them decide without knowing the "why".

Qualification: I do NOT do my own airbrushing. Not that good. Smooth Creations does all mine.

Dude all I am trying to say is you can have both, albiet with trade offs. But don't dismiss something like this out-of-hand. I agree with testing products to see how well they work. Alot of what goes on here is fanboism and antifanboism. XS is known for that. You take the good with the bad.

MANY of the people here place asthetics extremely high. A quick browse through the watercooler rig gallery shows there is uber bling and pimpage going on here.

Now if we could just train the LN2 heads to get some sweet torture racks pimped out and do their cold runs in style instead of on a ghetto bench. Maybe engraved pots made out of transparisteel.

[DarthBeavis]

Settle down guys, this thread isn't about pushing a product on everyone's throats !!! If someone want the bling, they are free to get it as long as he know what he is getting in terms of performance. As TribalOverkill said himself, they are mostly custom or limited runs so not everyone will get them so what ?

As long as we educate everyone that performance should matter more than bling and that bling should only be a bonus, we can keep the reputation of a forum pushing for the best performance products. In the end, it's the users money which decide the fate of everything and that's why Koolance is still floating (unfortunately for me).Dude this forum would be elevated if people stopped constantly brand bashing. If you are talking about the highs or lows of a paticular product (as I do when I tell my horror story with Thermaltake CPU blocks) that is one thing. But to add a company to the vernacular of XS as a word synonymous with crap is disengenuous at best.


***Today is a special on dollar fifty words. I got two for the price of three.

[JargonGR]

hmmm... seems i found a store... IN GREECE that sells them :P
http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.809556

we dont ahve thermochill, we dont ahve DTEK, but we have weird ac ryan reservoirs!

oh and there is a shield that goes over it for more BLING
http://www.e-shop.gr/show_per.phtml?id=PER.809558

http://www.e-shop.gr/images/PER/PER.809558.jpg


Regarding DTEK and just for your info it is being on sale for many months now in Greece here: http://www.plaisio.gr/product.aspx?catalog=17&category=69976861&product=933937

Also have a look there for other products although price wise it is not the cheapest of stores.

EDIT: I am seriously tempted to buy one of those but I have 3 reservoirs in total and one would not be enough. I might go and check it tomorrow though if I have time.

[barfastic]

yeah but plaisio is not really reliable, i checked there site a week ago, and they had thermochill radiators. now? they dont!

generally speaking tho, plaisio has lots of stuff to offer, but their availability is seriously crap. ive placed many orders, to have them send me emails 3-4 days later saying they dont have them in stock.
but yeah, plaisio and eshop ar the only decent stores. hopefully soon enough, i might open a store up... but... time will tell.

[JargonGR]

Unfortunately this is true regarding availability, I bought the Origen S21T HTPC case for them (the one with the 12" touchscreen that does 1920x1080) and it took me at least 20 phone calls and 1 month to get through the right person.

The joke is that only the last person I spoke to knew that they had this unit in black colour and in stock. They still don't have it at their website though only silver if i remember right.


Anyway that AC Ryan res looks nice and I am tempted to buy it for one of my 3 loops (the MB loop) so even if it is a bit restrictive I would not mind.

[barfastic]

well the way they are going, i heard they are going to convert to an online store only, with a few sales points, where u make your order and go pick them up. like eshop. but meh :S hate calling plaisio. was trying to find 2 pumps, said they didnt have in stock anywhere, and passed by the store on Stournari and they had like 50 :S

anyways.... did we decide who is going to purchase and test this reservoir? :D

[goramus]

did we decide who is going to purchase and test this reservoir?

i sent an email to them about shipping to the US. If they respond and can ship it i will definitly purchase it. even if it does restric flow it would be fine for a nb/sb/mosfet loop.

[Waterlogged]

IMHO, Tribal's "reservoirs" aren't really res's at all. My definition of a res is a tank that is easy to fill and allows easy bleeding of the loop. Most of what I've seen come from Tribal are pressurized tanks that are bilnged out. They all look very difficult to fill and (judging from Tom's post earlier) are difficult to bleed. Very nice looking stuff to be sure but, not a res in my book. Also, it's not really my style.

The most surprising thing to me is, how well they turn out using the half arsed methods/machines he uses and why he hasn't lost any digits yet. Being a former machinist with 12 years floor time, I can say that the stuff he makes can be mass produced with the same quality rather easily, but then...that wouldn't make it unique, would it?

[Zaskar]

Im a bit confused here, from what I thought I understood about the mechanics of a Res, as long as the path from the inlet and outlet have as good or better flow then a normal length of hose, then its flow is fine, and anything above those 2 points would only obstruct the cycloning effect, slowing that down, and Id of thought that would have 0 effect on a loops flow, if not then the EK anti cyclone insert and the baffle in the Swiftech microres would also be detrimental to the flow of the loop.

Someone please fill me in on what I'm missing/not understanding.

[jadeskye]

i find it a lil crazy how much controversy this topic thread has created all because we can have a sexy looking resevoir if we choose. You only have to look at them to see they're highly customised and very attractive and easily worthy of the xtreme moniker imo

[DarthBeavis]

i sent an email to them about shipping to the US. If they respond and can ship it i will definitly purchase it. even if it does restric flow it would be fine for a nb/sb/mosfet loop.

I have a few. One is in my Autopsy rig, one is my custom one waiting for my DayWalker build, and one is a spare he sent me that really was just an experiement he did and might not even really work for all we know. I would be willing to send the spare one to Martin . . .he might have to retap the barb holes tho.

As far was what belong here at XS . . .how is a visually stunning rig not extreme? There are two aspects of extreme (perhaps more) when it come to DIY computers, one being performance, the other being appearance. There is an entire community of modders out there who are just as skilled and dedicated as the extreme overclockers. That all have value . . .and wouldn't it be great to have a nice mix of the two? That is all I am saying folks . . .please, give bling a chance. I want Marci to make some sweet chromed or even cubic zirconia encrusted rads . . .they perform well but that flat black is butt ugly.

[Xilikon]

DarthBeavis, TC already offer a choice of bare radiators so you can paint it to whatever color you want or powdercoat them for a superior finish ;)

What matter for me is that it perform the best while looking good since i'm not into extreme benching (this is better done with phase/LN anyway where bling is nonexistent).