Reserator 1 Plus and E6300

The Reserator 1Plus is plenty to handle an overclocked E6300. I had an E6600 at 3.6GHz and it would maintain 50C under 100% load in a cool room or 60C under 100% load in a warm room. It will get overloaded by adding a graphics card or the N/B though.
 
But not cooling the Northbridge and The Graphics card would make the Reserator abit pointless as you would need good airflow and case fans to cool a passive
NB and GPU like the thermalrights HR-03 and the HR-05 ?
 
Is it true that the Reserator 1 Plus unlike the others models is a painted finish ?

I've been reading people complaining about the black coating coming off the inside and outside of the Reserator 1 Plus.
 
Ice Tea said:
But not cooling the Northbridge and The Graphics card would make the Reserator abit pointless as you would need good airflow and case fans to cool a passive
NB and GPU like the thermalrights HR-03 and the HR-05 ?
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Yes. But that wasn't the question you asked. At one point I had 3 Reserators running three loops on my system - one for the CPU, one for the SLI graphics and one for the N/B, S/B and HDD.

If you want a totally passive overclocked system then you'll need to look at something more complex. I built a Quad Xeon 3210 system with three Preytek Serenity coolers (buy a Laing 18W DDC pump with the PetrasTech top, a dozen 1/2" barbs, 5m of Masterkleer 7/16ths tubing, 3 Preytek Serenity Coolers (they are available for about £60 each without the rest of the kit) and CPU, GPU and chipset blocks of your choice and pipe them up so that the CPU comes off the pump, then goes to cooler No. 1 then back to the GPU(s), then Cooler 2 then the Chipset and Cooler 3 and finally back to the pump. It runs VERY cool and the guy who I sold it to is absolutely delighted with it. It was totally silent except when the optical drives spun up.

I did also have a custom-made Lian Li V600B with CapeCora Passive rads mounted outside, it had 3 pumps and 3 loops and it cooled spectacularly well, but it looked like an abortion.

If you want the king of passive cooling, then you need the Innovatek HTCS Passive Stand Alone Radiator - it's rated to cool an overclocked quad and SLi graphics. It's massive though. It's sort of a properly engineered Zalman Reserator without the pump.

Do bear in mind that the P35 motherboards run very cool anyway so you may not need to cool the chipset and the current NVidia graphics coolers are near as darn-it silent anyway.
 
Ice Tea said:
Is it true that the Reserator 1 Plus unlike the others models is a painted finish ?

I've been reading people complaining about the black coating coming off the inside and outside of the Reserator 1 Plus.
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Yes, it is painted. I had 3 at one point and none of them had any paint issues while I had them (about 6 months in total).
 
The top might be anodized, but the fins definitely look painted. The initial blue one was definitely anodized and looked it. The later one is a completely different finish.
 
I have 2 Rev+ & there is no issue about the paint coming off.
Could be that they are using the recommended fluids.
 
Whats size tube to replace the Blue tube as somebody posted that they used 10/8mm tube but there was a big gap between the tube and locking ring and the tube was loose.
 
The bottom the RES and all the blocks are G1/4 threaded so chuck away the stock tubing and use proper 3/8ths or 1/2 Inch barbs and Masterkleer 7/16ths tubing. It's all low flow-rate so you won't see any major benefit (it holds a bit more liquid ;) ), but the stock 10/8mm compression fittings are a fraction less water-tight.

Upgrading the pump will give you the biggest increase in perfomance (the D-Tek DB-1 is ideal as it's submersible) and then the periscope mod (fit a long length of tubing inside the RES so the hot water returning from the blocks is dumped out the top of the column instead of the bottom where it just gets recirculated).
 
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