CoolRiver Deluxe Watercooling Kit
November 28, 2004
Manufactured by CoolRiver
Supplied by Dot PC’s
Introduction
As watercooling is fast becoming mainstream, more and more companies are thinking of having a piece of the once small market. With the arrival of faster and hotter processor, the demand for this form of active cooling is getting bigger.
In the watercooling scene, we now have two main types of products, the kits and the external units. The kits are basically for those with a bit of technical know how as it requires a bit of fiddling and some serious setup. With kits, you install the components to the case, you secure the tubes, add the liquid, bleed the system and so on. With the external units on the other hand, almost everything is already setup for you. All that is needed is for you to connect the blocks to the hardware and its ready to go. These are intended for those who are quite new to watercooling.
Today we are reviewing a kit type of watercooling system. A lot of companies have tried to deliver kits that are as easy as possible to setup but some still requires a lot of setting up to do. What we have today in our labs is a kit with a twist. Produced by a relatively new company, at least to my knowledge, it promises to deliver a watercooling system that is easy to install, ultra quiet and highly efficient at the same time. Introducing, the CoolRiver Deluxe Watercooling Kit.
Who is CoolRiver?
From the looks on the CoolRiver site, this kit is manufactured and distributed by a German company. However, looking around the net, we have discovered that this kit also goes by a different name in other countries. For example in the USA, this particular kit is being sold as CoolWave Stormcool III manufactured by CoolWave in China. Both kits look exactly the same with the exception of their names. I guess what we are seeing here is an OEM watercooling kit branded differently in other countries but manufactured by a single company. My best bet is that this kit is manufactured in China.
CoolRiver Deluxe Watercooling Kit
The CoolRiver Deluxe kit is an all in one watercooling system. It has connections for the cpu, chipset and graphics card. As we said earlier, this kit comes with a twist. Although you will need to still set it up, the task is a lot easier as it already comes with all the blocks already attached to the tubings, pump and radiator. It also comes preloaded (pre-charged) with a non-conductive liquid.
Features
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Universal for AMD & P4
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Pump with tank
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Pre-installed and filled with
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Patented non-conductive liquid
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All-in-one complete set of cooling blocks (made of copper) for CPU, VGA and M/B chip
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Pump can be directly connected with 3pin M/B fan connector