2 Zalman Reserators?

WJA96 · 24 Jan 2007 at 22:01

I have been offered a pair of brand new Zalman Reserators for £160. I think that's a very fair price but I was thinking - could I use one to cool my overclocked E6600 and the other to cool the Northbridge and Graphics cards in my PC?

If so - is it better to run 2 loops with one Zalman doing each loop or lump the whole lot together in series?

System could be something like E6600 @ 3.6GHz, P5N-E SLi, 2 x 7900GTO's

I appreciate i could be impossible/daft, but I just thought I'd ask....

sablabra · 24 Jan 2007 at 22:03

I would say two loops would yield best results, but in the end YOU will have to try this out

. One loop for your cpu and on for gfx + chipset sounds like a good plan, so I would go for that. Two rads in series won't always give you much lower temps.

w3bbo · 24 Jan 2007 at 22:04

You would get better cooling from a single swiftech apex ultra m8.

.walls · 24 Jan 2007 at 22:06

Zalman Reserators are great if you want a very quiet pc, but they don't cool the components nearly as well as an actively cooled res.

WJA96 · 24 Jan 2007 at 22:51

w3bbo said:
You would get better cooling from a single swiftech apex ultra m8.

Yes, but that wouldn't fit in a small case - and the Reserator I had before was genuinely silent.