OcUK Extreme Sub Zero Watercooling Kit

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As im doing a full system upgrade in the next few weeks to an intel setup ( prob a q9450 or a q9550 ) im mulling using a water cooling set up on the cpu only.


I have a large case ( see sig ) and so have ample room inside the box. However the OcUK Extreme Sub Zero Watercooling Kit appaears to be just what im after. I can attach it to the rear vent on the psu side of my case and route the water tubes through to the cpu using the holes in the motherboard mounting plate.

However from the one photo on the website im unsure as to wether the reservoir actually comes attached to the radiator or not. Has anyone actually got one of these kits and if so can you please maybe snap a few pics and let me see more detail.

Many thanks.
 
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I will get some more pictures hosted now for you. :)

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Add me to MSN if you like ([email protected]) and I can give you the lowdown on one if you like, also have some half finnished benchies too. :)

The whole unit is one item that fits onto the rear of the case.
 
Thanks! what i really could do with seeing is a shot from the other side, literally 180 degress round from that shot.

I assume i can easily undo the tubes from the cpu block to feed though some holes then reattach? ive had zero experiance of watercooling so sorry for the dumb questions :(

Also would this pump/rez be powerful enough to maybe add a northbridge block as well at a later date?
 
We have that running at the moment.

Q6600 + Black Ops motherboard from one with good results. :)

You can easily undo / remove anything on these, they are fully upgradable and we have them so people can make a start with watercooling without having to bin everything if they want to upgrade something in 6 months time.

Will catch you on MSN. :)
 
why is it called "sub zero" when actually its probably going to struggle to compete with a decent air heatsink and probably gets hammered by a swiftech compact kit at nearly half the price?
 
Been toying with the motion of watercooling but dunno still scares me lol

Guess it would be nice to finaly get decent temps on the cpu/mobo/gpus, can this watercooling kit do all those?
 
matt100 said:
why is it called "sub zero" when actually its probably going to struggle to compete with a decent air heatsink and probably gets hammered by a swiftech compact kit at nearly half the price?
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Sub Zero as it sounds reasonably good. :confused:

It beats top end air cooling and it is better than the swiftech kit. :p

Don't get why your saying that there as you have nothing to base it on unless you are one of the people who have ordered one, wait until the benchies!

The kit can do the CPU + Mobo, wouldnt think it would do a grand job of cooling a graphics card as well.
 
well ok, I don't have much to base it on other than the fact the rad is probably equal to the swiftech and I'm pretty sure the nexxxxxxxxxxxos blocks come out under the apogee GT and the eheim pump is unless I'm mistaken a fair bit louder and not much if any more powerful than the one in the swiftech kit.


You may have guessed I'm not one of the people who has ordered one :)
 
meh. not a big fan of kits, but I have to say - I looked at a lot of them before going custom. Having gone a custom route, I doubt I'd ever go back.

custom parts, with a bit of research, is much easier than you can be led to believe. I think that some w/c peeps like to exaggerate their prowess - some deserve to, some don't.

Take some precautions, read-up beforehand, choose the right equipment and ask for people here to confirm/deny and you'll be hard pushed to go wrong, imo.

That said, if I could have found a very good kit at a very good price I would have gone that route. Not sure they exist though.
 
mk17 said:
Take some precautions, read-up beforehand, choose the right equipment and ask for people here to confirm/deny and you'll be hard pushed to go wrong, imo.
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Thats certainly the reason im going watercooling. IMO it's the researching / building part that is the most fun. Sure there are some decent gains, but nothing like the bang for buck that air cooling provides.

RE: This watercooling kit; i asked several times for benches but the nice guys at OCUK choose to ignore me.
 
What's neat about this is you can quite literally stick it in a 120mm drive hole and bolt the CPU block down and you're done. Lots of people don't want to mess about with an HSS drill and a measuring tape.

It will quiet your system as it's removing a fan from the CPU cooler, so you'll only have the case fans left. The radiator isn't as good as a PA120, but since you will have the bracket, that could be an easy upgrade. The block isn't as good as a FuZion 2 or an EK Supreme, but everything is standard G1/4 stuff so that could also be an easy upgrade. The fact that it comes out of the case with 8 screws being undone makes it a doddle to drain down in the kitchen or bathroom.

I challenge anyone to say anything bad about the pump, as it's a classic.

When the Swiftech kit was launched everyone wanted to rave about it, as it turned out, it wasn't very good at cooling or very quiet or very reliable. But that's not what we have here.

This ia a known quantity radiator, with a known quantity pump, with a known quantity CPU block that all fits together with standard compression fittings. This is a low-cost custom solution - you're just getting all the bits from one place. If you add up the value of the bits, you're getting quite a good deal too

The radiator must have to be chosen very carefully, as it has to fit into the space between the motherboard and the case.

And that Alphacool bracket will take a Laing DDC with the Alphacool top if you want a further upgrade.

If I was to make any suggestion at all, it would be to swap the block for a cheaper XSPC, Flow or Swiftech Apogee GT as that's the weak spot at the moment as I see it, but it's not much of a weak spot, and as Alphacool are assembling them for OcUK, it's unlikely to happen.

There is a market for this sort of stuff, so don't knock OcUK for selling it, and given that it's out of stock again, it can't be selling badly.
 
beh* said:
RE: This watercooling kit; i asked several times for benches but the nice guys at OCUK choose to ignore me.
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I don't think that's true. I suspect that they have proper jobs to do, and they're probably just too busy. Earlier in the thread Yewen said he had some half-finished benchies.

E-mail Yewen and ask him to send you one to bench-test. Then allow at least a week to do it properly, measuring the temperature between the room temperature and the CPU temperature, maybe swap a few fans in and out. Then test it with both Quads and Dual-cores in stock and overclocked situations. It's a load of work. They've probably sent out a review sample to a magazine and they're going to let them test it for them.

Until then, as this is basically an upgraded CoolAnswer III, search on that and then imagine slightly better results.
 
They do perform better than the cool answer, I purchased them for our systems and they just were not up to the job, so got the design modified by Alphacool for our systems.

They perform well, but unfortunately as you will see quite a lot of the range on OcUK is booming especially with watercooling. I also do not have one spare to run full benchmarks on and I could not delay a customers computer shipping just so I could make benchmarks.

I have a quantity of these due in but it is taking Alphacool a month to make the delivery up for me, once this delivery hits I will have enough kits in stock to be able to remove one and test it without holding up any orders.

These kits have flown out again and we have only had one with a faulty pump, I am very pleased with them and for what they are aimed at they are by far the best solution I have seen on the market.

Have your doubts until you see the benchmarks by all means, they will be coming once I have the capacity to do ones that would stand the scrutiny of members on this forum. The odds of most of the people who are into the benchmarks to that detail buying one are slim however. ;)
 
Yewen said:
TThe odds of most of the people who are into the benchmarks to that detail buying one are slim however. ;)
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Your probably right :D Still interested in the benchmarks though. Will be interested to see how close a high end integrated solution can come to custom water.
 
Very interested to see benchies on the base kit, and the base kit alone. I wouldn't dream of 'upgrading' the components.

You may ask why - why spend cash on upgrading the kit, as the cash you spent getting this up to a full custom kit is going to be close enough that you should have just got the custom kit in the first place!

I've tried kits before, and I won't go there again. Anyone remember the Thermaltake Big Water SE ? *shudders*
 
Arthalen said:
Very interested to see benchies on the base kit, and the base kit alone. I wouldn't dream of 'upgrading' the components.

You may ask why - why spend cash on upgrading the kit, as the cash you spent getting this up to a full custom kit is going to be close enough that you should have just got the custom kit in the first place!

I've tried kits before, and I won't go there again. Anyone remember the Thermaltake Big Water SE ? *shudders*
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I know, I would not recommend one of these with the purposeful intention of upgrading, best just to get it from the start.

BUT, peoples requirements do change, this is all literally off the shelf parts of decent quality in a custom mounting. Nice and easy to change the rad for a quick upgrade and add another item to the loop.

Benchmarks will be coming once my delivery of these hits, looking at the end of next week for them shipping.

Playing around with an Akasa Omega and a basic double TFC rad setup at the moment that I will post up some pictures of, trying to do a super budget 4GHZ+ system that could be sold on the website, no idea if I will have any success but we shall see. :p

For a rough guide to the kit it beats the top end air cooling with the same fan being used quite easily, we were getting results of up to 10deg difference on the reported CPU temperature when the volts were flying.
 
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