Its going to be interesting, cant wait for real tests.
Ive done the major watercooling setups and recently switched back to air. Real Triple fan multi rad setups do make a HUGE difference in maximum overclocking potential while keeping it under safe temps at all times (usually it removes temp from the equation entirely and your throttling yourself based on max speculated safe voltage). But it just takes the focus too far away from the electronic components and places it on the watercooling system for me, as it makes changing parts, especially motherboards/cases a huge hassle, usually to the point where your put off from doing it, I diddnt like that as swapping hardware frequently is half the fun for me.
This is a nice hybrid of the 2, a small self contained watercooling loop that has the same ease of install and lack of spider webbing your components to the case as a normal air cooler. Only question is if it will be better then top notch air coolers at high temps, not stock ones like 1.3v for a 965.
The reviews that will be the most interesting will be ones that overclock the CPU with this unit to the point where under stress it is reaching 80c, and then seeing what one of the top air coolers like TRUE/Megahalems/Noctua with a 2 1600-1900rpm fans config get temp wise under those same settings. Will it have the same ~10c benefit, will it be less/even, worse? Thats what I want to see.
Not many care about keeping it ~10c cooler at the settings their currently using, but if it will allow their Air cooled OC'd systems that are currently skirting just under the 80c mark on LINX load tests to be overclocked a bit higher.
For air cooled i7 systems, that will usually be the jump from ~3.8ghz to 4ghz if your concerned with it being 30+ pass LINX/IntelBurntest/linpack stable.
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