Domino A.L.C is it any good?

Lord Sindore · 12 May 2009 at 01:30

I am about to buy a core i7 920 D0 Stepping I will be left with about £80 for cooling and would like to know if the Domino A.L.C is any good or not as a water cooler unit?

I would all so like to know about how good it is for overclocking, and what temps/Ghz ever one who has used the Domino A.L.C has got?

is it worth the money?

and can you customise it, i.e piping and cpu block with this unit, I would like to have clear piping and uv dye bomb in the water with uv anti-kink coils to, could this be done with the Domino A.L.C?

the case I have is a NZXT Guardian 921 the mobo is gigabyte ex85-ud3r the psu is Corsair TX 650W and the memory is Corsair Dominator 3GB ddr3.

I'm still waiting on my gpu of which is XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5.

just thought I sould say be cos every things heat adds up . :confused:

BeeP · 12 May 2009 at 08:16

I THINK this is a sealed unit so you can't add to it or even put in your dye.

Art · 12 May 2009 at 09:33

BeeP said:
I THINK this is a sealed unit so you can't add to it or even put in your dye.

You're right, I read a review in a magazine the other day that said the unit is totally sealed and you can't change a thing without voiding your warranty. Apparently they accidentally managed to break theirs and had to send it back to the factory to get refilled and resealed: the cap for the reservoir is basically tinfoil, not a screw on thing, so you've either got to glue it back on or return it.

shadowscotland · 12 May 2009 at 09:36

Is it worth it? - from what a few users have said C2D yes, quads and above no.
Can you mod it - not easily - and you will loss the warrenty.

Spend the £80 on a quality tower heatsink and some good fans.

rjk · 12 May 2009 at 12:38

Its great I love mine

shadowscotland · 12 May 2009 at 12:59

but your don't have your [email protected] under do you

Lord Sindore · 12 May 2009 at 13:17

whats the best overclock and temps for Domino A.L.C unit?

I'v read the ocuk Reviews for it I just wont a bit more feedback.

shadowscotland saying about your 920 @ 4.3 whats the temps and what did you use to cool it with?

Bradley8988 · 12 May 2009 at 13:39

From reviews they perform really good even on clocked i7. If i was in the market for a cheap WC set up i would def give it a go.

reflux · 12 May 2009 at 13:42

For now we can only say that there are very few virtuous reasons to buy the Domino ALC and if you're interested in watercooling, do yourself a favour, spend the money to buy a quality kit or buy the known performer that is the ThermalRight Ultra Extreme instead.

It's rubbish apparently......and like all budget watercooling kits, I wouldn't give it the time of day.

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/04/29/the-coolit-domino-alc/

deuse · 12 May 2009 at 14:14

reflux said:
It's rubbish apparently......and like all budget watercooling kits, I wouldn't give it the time of day.

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/04/29/the-coolit-domino-alc/

They did go onto say
" However, having just yesterday re-tested the latest model with the overclocked 720 BE in identical settings on the same motherboard,
but with a cooler lab (since James turned off his space heaters Folding rigs) , we're now seeing temperatures in the mid-40s "

And it was a pre-production model.

Lord Sindore · 12 May 2009 at 18:56

so as far as I can tell its 50/50 on cooling, ok if not the domino alc then what do I go for? it must be within my £80 bugit and be able to keep my cpu blow 75c or lower on a overclock of 4Ghz on the i7 920 D0.

Lord Sindore · 12 May 2009 at 18:57

whats the Coolermaster v8 like?

rjk · 13 May 2009 at 20:11

shadowscotland said:
but your don't have your [email protected] under do you

No
My i7 is on a thermochill 120.3

I would strongly advise against running a domino on any quad chip

Smirnoff edited my post :mad:

rjk · 13 May 2009 at 20:15

Lord Sindore said:
whats the Coolermaster v8 like?

Good lord don't get that monstrosity
If you are cooling ani7 on air, you really have three choices...
Noctua
TRUE
Titan fenrir

Ninja Please! · 13 May 2009 at 20:19

rjkoneill said:
Good lord don't get that monstrosity
If you are cooling ani7 on air, you really have three choices...
Noctua
TRUE
Titan fenrir

May I disagree? My V8 works great and looks good doing it.

Orangey · 13 May 2009 at 21:11

I'd save up another 50 quid and get a Swiftech kit or DIY.

But if time is tight, TRUE with Delta it is then.

barrolde · 13 May 2009 at 22:26

Hey Guys,

Cool thread... a lot of good coolers listed including ours. I have gone over the benefits of the Domino several times in different threads so I won't repeat them here but I would like to give anyone considering the Domino a little food for thought.

http://downloads.coolitsystems.net/DominoReviewList.pdf

ps. you can use a Domino on any chip, including i7 quads and yes you can overclock them too. My advice: do some research... look at what the system integrators are doing with it.

Regards,

Barry

Sayso · 13 May 2009 at 22:43

i don't see how a closed loop with 1 fan will ever be enough to cool a O/C I7, they kick out some heat!!

hehe just realised you work for coolit...welcome!!

barrolde · 13 May 2009 at 23:16

Sayso said:
i don't see how a closed loop with 1 fan will ever be enough to cool a O/C I7, they kick out some heat!!

hehe just realised you work for coolit...welcome!!

Sure do

a lot of people don't get it at first.. allow me to explain.

The Domino uses water to transport heat just like a heatsink uses a heatpipe to transport heat. The main difference is that radiator to spread out the heat while they use a heatsink. Either way the concentrated heat load from the CPU is spread out over a larger surface area and then the heat is blown out into the ambient air by a fan.

SCIENCE!!!

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

B

jlss · 14 May 2009 at 01:48

Be interesting how good these are anyone here got one. I'm thinking of going over to water maybe this will do as a start off.