Are these really £28 each??? :O

Most Koolance kit costs above an beyond. I mean, per compression fitting, they are around £10 per item - ie you need 2 for it to work, so each fitting is effectively £20. That makes these blocks seem cheap by comparison...

The only Koolance kit I've ever gotten my hands on is top noths kit. Well manufactured and finished. I'd certainly seek out there kit over, say, some like XSPC's or EK's. I'm probably being a bit harsh on EK there, but Koolance's stuff is generally just that bit better finished...

If I'm honest I think all water cooling kit is overpriced by about 20-30% for what it is. I'm hoping that a bit more competition would drive down the costs a bit, but instead it seems to be making the market more and more expensive.

There's something to be said about going back to watercooling roots... or going DIY with standard plumbing parts...
 
I just specced up the full kit needed to cool all 4 channels on my system and it came to £135!!!! That cost nearly double what my GPU block cost!! or 3 times that of my cpu block lol.

For anyone wanting these, you would be better off buying corsair Dominator or Mushkin ram then fitting a EK ram block or mushkin Copperhead block instead. Probs work out cheaper... especially those wanting to upgrade their ram too..
 
Phew. That's a lot for an auxiliary function. It's not like they add THAT much value to the rig, or perform THAT much better. The sooner that someone copies Koolance's designs and mass produces them, the better!
 
Tattysnuc said:
Phew. That's a lot for an auxiliary function. It's not like they add THAT much value to the rig, or perform THAT much better. The sooner that someone copies Koolance's designs and mass produces them, the better!
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Amen to that brother!
 
Koolance is imported from the states. So it is expensive yes.

However. Please bear in mind that Koolance make possibly the highest quality watercooling hardware you can buy. This is another reason for the price tag
 
I can vouch for the koolance quality, have some of their qdc's, brilliant they are. Some of these would look nice to replace the heatspreaders on my vengeance but £120 to do so I can't justify for cosmetics atm.
 
iBSOD said:
is w/c ram not completely pointless?
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Not completely. It's only really useful for extreme overclockers when you venture past the 1.65-1.7v mark (on DDR3 of course) where heat becomes an issue and starts to hold you back. DDR3 @ 1.70v is quite warm i can tell you that from personal experience.
 
iBSOD said:
is w/c ram not completely pointless?
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Well considering we're seeing RAM hitting the 2800Mhz mark now, I can't see these taking off. Higher speed DIMM's will come down in price over the next year or two and even the basement dwellers might afford some :D
 
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