Zalman Reserator1 V2 - any good?

woppy101 said:
for the £300+ you are going to spend on the reserator which are not very good i might add i have had the reserator v1 and the reserator2 you could have
Thermochill PA120.3 120mm Triple Radiator £62.26
Laing DDC 1+ Ultra 18W 12VDC Pump £58.74
D-Tek Fuzion V2 Universal CPU Block £41.11
EK 8800 GTX Full Cover VGA Water Block X2 £115.12
EK Multioption Reservoir 150 £35.24
Masterkleer 7/16" Tubing - 2m £3.50
Total £326.50 inc del
this would be a better watercooling system than the 2 reserators and this was i list i have just thrown together from one website if you shop around i think you could get that to below £300 mate
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I paid £50 collected for one of my reserators and £45 delivered for the other. The EK supreme block was £35 delivered on top. And from a noise point of view, mine is a lot quieter.
 
on overclockers they are £150 each and he was talking about getting 2 and a water block which takes it up to £335 they might be quite but they couldnt keep a beer cold in the arctic so if it isnt going to keep it cold whats the point mate
 
I love my Reserator2. Keeps my Q6600 in check quite nicely (speed in sig). Temps on this warm day are 36ºC idle. :D They are not super mint coolers, but can cope nicely with a moderate overclock. I wouldn't run them in a loop though, I just cool the CPU and that's it.
 
WJA96 is spot on with this costs (if not a little bit lucky) no point in buying new - Got my res2 for £90 collected which doesn't need the mods, as has better pipe routing a stronger pump and Zalmans improved blocks :D

So complete silent kit for under £100 (as was WJA96 duel Res1's pre mod). Ok I've improved it further as the wife like our house warm so any kind of cooling is less efficient with higher ambient temps.

If buying new - use Innovatek Konvekt-o-matiks, as the new ones have ribbed fins like the Res2 which increase surface area by 30% over the Cape Corra rads.

That said, if you live in a city, active water cooling with right fans is below ambient noise and therefore quiet enough
 
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woppy101 said:
just to compair i have the same chip need more volts at that speed like 3.4 1.37v
29 31 29 30 idle load 40 38 40 38
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so what? your temps could be loads higher and make precisely no difference to anything and 40 load is not achieved by silent or even quiet water.
 
woppy101 said:
they might be quiet but they couldn't keep a beer cold in the arctic
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Well, given that I have two graphics cards, a northbridge and a heavily overclocked CPU running quite happily in complete silence, I think rather differently to you. Yes, it does load out somewhere between 55C and 75C depending on the overclock and whether or not the I'm running the graphics hard as well as the CPU but it's well within thermal tolerance for all components and it's totally stable.

I have nine water-cooled rigs here and I'm ripping out PA120.3's and buying up and installing second-hand Reserators, Cape Coras and Konvekt-o-Matiks because with the new 45nm CPUs they are perfectly adequate. I get a bit better than stock fan levels of cooling, and proper quiet. The big difference from what you may have used in the past is that I'm running a properly matched CPU block rather than the rather poor effort that Zalman shipped originally, and the pressure with the DB-1 is about twice as high as stock.

ShadowScotland is quite right though - If I was buying new, I would get the Konvekt-o-Matik Maxi Ultra, which is as good as three Reserators in series (I know, I've done the comparison:D. Pricey though - the radiator is over £200 and the feet are another £30.
 
For all those who want to lighten my load of PA120.3's, a certain specialist case builder is taking them in part-ex on a new project he's doing for me.
 
ah ok, still should be an interesting project.

Fans have been off for about an hour now and I seem to be settleing at 40c across the cores idle.. (well, light usage) very interesting.
 
matt100 said:
ah ok, still should be an interesting project.

Fans have been off for about an hour now and I seem to be settleing at 40c across the cores idle.. (well, light usage) very interesting.
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I reckon you'll only see it go uncontrollable with all the cores running 100% for an extended period. And then, even 1 fan will bring it back.
 
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