Layout
The CoolRiver Deluxe Kit comes packaged in a boxed styropor container. All the components including the blocks, pump, tubings and radiator are neatly laid together with the mounts and screws needed for the setup. Opening the box you will find an instructions manual in black and white written in both German and English.
The cpu, vga and chipset blocks are all copper. They follow the same design differing in just the size. All the blocks are fully sealed with the tubings already connected and clamped securely to each block. The blocks are initially covered by a plastic seal to prevent tarnishing. Upon removal you will find a mirror finish surface that is flat and free of machining marks.
The kit comes with an assortment of stuff for mounting up the cpu, vga and chipset block on different systems. All mounts are what you would call standard except for the gpu, which uses a sort of clamp mechanism. What it does is it “sandwiches” the waterblock against the gpu core.
The radiator used for this kit is a 4-pass 120mm copper core unit similar to those popular Black Ice jobbies. It is cooled by a 120mm fan rated at 1650 rpm. As for the tubings, the system uses 1/4" ID tubings for all connections.
The pump is an immersible waterpump encased in a plastic reservoir. No gph rating can be found anywhere in the manuals or in the CoolRiver site. However, because of its size, I can only presume that it's on the weak side. The pump gets its power via a molex plug that is wired to a small black box that acts as an inverter. The pump also comes with a rubber mount to help in securing the pump anywhere in the case and to help in noise reduction caused by vibration. The pump-reservoir is sealed tight so there is no port where you can top up the fluid. Note that the company claims that the fluid used is a non-conductive one.
