Primochill Typhoon 3 (Any Good?)

[engstrom0304]

Well, anybody have one?? Is it any good?

Doesn't seem to be many reviews around.

The plan at the moment is to use it (with the D5 of course) to pump effectively 2 loops, 1 for the 5870 (single rad) and one for the i7 (triple rad).
Would it be better to do that or just have a single loop in series with 2 rads?

 

[jamiemacca]

Mine came cracked around the metal screw mounts (slow leak) same as review below. OCUK are not sure if they are getting any more in so I got EK SPIN Reservoir EK-Bay - Acetal instead. After seeing both the EK spin is definatly more robost and much thicker.

I read a review about a guy who bought 2 (below). Both of them developed cracks also. A shame as its looks awsome and great to have the pump attached. The plastic must be too thin! Maybe Typhoon IV will be more reliable!

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/catalog/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=1544&reviews_id=366

 

[WJA96]

That link is to a competitor website, so you may want to pull it down.

I have both the Typhoon III and the XSPC dual DDC bay reservoirs and the Typhoon III is excellent. Mine was one of the first in the country and it didn't come cracked thankfully, and had I known the option was available I wouyld have bought it with the top tapped with a G1/4" thread. Otherwise it's really good.

The XSPC dual DDC reservoir is very interesting as it basically lets you run two truly separate loops from one bayres (there is a common reservoir version too, but that has issues - see below). The big downside with the XSPC is that you need two expensive pumps rather than one with the Typhoon III. Other than that, it's very good.

The common reservoir version of the XSPC bayres suffers from extreme vortexing with two 18W pumps fitted and if you fit two different pumps the weaker one starves, so you end up running two 10W pumps, which can be fine, or not, depending on the system. The dual reservoir version solves all of these problems.