Zalman Reserator XT

Deluxe1

Deluxe1

Deluxe1

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Ive been tempted to venture into watercooling for awhile and was wondering if anyone has one of these?

Now from the reviews ive read they all seem positive but on diff forums people are looking down at it.

I havent got a big case so this would be ideal for me and it would only be innitially to watercool my cpu and maybe my gpu at a later date.
 
I have one of these, and on paper at least, it's an awesome bit of kit.

That said, I am experiencing a bit of a major problem with mine. Whne I turn my PC on, there's a 20% chance that coolant will not circulate properly. I have to hold the reset button on the unit and squeeze the input tube to "thrust" the coolant past the flow rate indicator to kickstart it.

It's also worth bearing in mind that it's not designed to offer maximum performance, but rather, it is designed to offer reasonable performance, with very little sound output. It's very quiet!

I'm using it to cool a QX9650 and an 8800GTX (both overclocked) and the CPU doesn't go over 49 degrees and the graphics card doesn't go over 55 degrees (at load). Idle temps are even better.
 
I have an XT with an EK supreme CPU block and it keeps core temps below 50C on full load prime at 4ghz.

The base unit is very good at keeping the water only a few degrees higher than ambient, however, the Zalman cpu block struggles big time with O/C cpus.
 
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