Quote Originally Posted by Justifire View Post
Rodriguez, have you received the unit yet ?
I have & it's just HUGE, the fan is much louder than the 1500 & of course it cools better, but not by much although I think the oil filter was blocked cause it took longer to reach 12 Cº than the 1500

So I had a techinician come to my house to replace the oil filter, change the R136A coolant with 406 & install fill/drain ports.

Now it keeps the marked temp at full load (Prime95 Small FTT + SLI Furmark at 1240x1024 4xAA) with Core i7 at 4.2Ghz 1.46vCore- 1.56vQPI & GPU's 730/1684/2500

Lowest temp I tried was 10 Cº & it got there after a while, minimum temp alowable is 4 Cº.

I'll have to fill a bit more 406 gas into the chiller cause it still takes too long from startup to desired temp. The technician told me that the extremely powerful fan was keeping the unit from reaching the temps faster, I'm not really knowledgeable on this but what he was saying was that if there was a bit more heat inside the chiller case it would cool much quicker. He suggested lowering the fan speed. We actually blocked the fan from starting & it was true.

Anyways, I'll need to install the chiller really FAAAAR away from me soon or else the noise will drive me nuts, it just makes me feel soo nervous. It's the freaking fan pushing air through the back plastic grill that makes 99% of the noise, when I took out all the covers it made about half the noise.


I'm not sure if a higher flow would be better for keeping temps & of course a big reservoir also.