"World Exclusive"
Review by Ramil Tranquilino
Introduction
Watercooling has long been a favorite means of cooling of many a hardcore overclocker. A lot of enthusiasts has delve into this form of cooling "technology" long before they were thought of as a means of cooling a computer processor. It used to be the trademark of the elite supercooling/overclocking geek from a time not so long ago. For some during that time it was just a pastime, for most it was a habit!
Now times has changed. Slowly but surely, watercooling is becoming somewhat of a regular choice of cooling for today's performance seekers who wants to get the most out of their hardware. Before it was just the DIYers who gets that kick out of this. But with the emergence of different companies today that produce professionally made watercooling equipment, the gap between aircooling and watercooling is slowly shortening. More and more enthusiasts are finding this form of cooling method safer and easier to build now, thanks to these companies who provides readily available watercooling gear. A lot now feels comfortable buying fully made watercooled systems due to the exposure and success stories of many of those who have already tried it. Nowadays, it's just a choice of whether to build or to buy your much wanter watercooling rig.
Today we will look at one company and its innovative watercooling system focused and targeted at bringing liquid cooled power systems straight to your doorsteps.
Octools presents you the world exclusive review of the IOport Maximus PC.
Who is IOport?
IOport Technolgies, LLC was founded this year by Darren Decker. He took the ioport.com domain from a past business and currently operates with 3 other employees. Darren is an electronics engineer and a self taught programmer. He's had many projects both hardware and software and do consulting on a regular basis. The MAXIMUS PC and the ioport.com website are 100% his creations. It took him over 2 months of fairly steady work to get the ioFreeze cooling system in the MAXIMUS PC to function properly within the cost constraints he had to work with in order to resell those products. In building the Maximus, the main obstacles he encountered were the power supply and radiator fan combination. Choosing the right case and keeping these components small enough to fit in the PC was somewhat of a challenge that he succesfully solved.
On October 5, 2001 they lauched the Maximus line of Liquid Cooled Power Systems. The website opened its door to the public 17 days later after the launch.
The IOport website is well designed and "eye appealing" as it provides clear and straightforward navigation. Their Maximus System section includes a custom configurable pc option which shows the different parts that can be integrated and its cost price as well in realtime. They also mirror the latest drivers for the hardwares that they use on their systems.
IOport’s name was created to convey the companies association with data and technology. Data coming and going through an I/O port.
IOport Maximus Liquid Cooled Systems