Self contained water cooling Akasa Revo - too good to be true?

[coiler]

What do you guys make of this, no radiators, pipes, setting up, water. A self contained fluid cooling cpu heatsink/fan.

Correct me if i'm wrong but if I had a watercooling setup I would have this primarily for the CPU.

My gfx can be oced very nicely with stock cooling and my memory has huge heatsinks and again OC's nicely without any additional cooling.

So this seems like watercooling where it matters, without the price, or with the hassle.


http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Fans%2C+Heatsinks%2C+Coolers/Socket+754%2C+939%2C+775/Akasa+Revo%2C+Dual+Fluid+ThermoDynamic+Cooler+?pro ductId=29299



too good to be true?

[wonderlust]

I looked into this about a week ago, Overclock3d.net reviewed it and were not over impressed with it.

I have decided to look into a Thermal Right Extreme 120.

[jOHNG]

saw one of these in action, very quiet and cooled very well

[mac124]

I doubt it actually has water in it, more likely some gas or other and you HAVE to install it a certain way otherwise it wont work properly, which might explain some dodgy results in reviews of it.

[Sl4x0r]

They've tuned the design for silence - which it does very well. When I played with one it was very, very quiet... It also has a shroud/spacer that means some of the airflow is dumped onto the motherboard to keep regulators cool - which can't help!

I reckon with a faster fan and all the air through the heatsink then it'll be good! People has speculated that the internal coolant is different between performance and silent models - can't see it myself though.

It reminds me of the Vapochill Micro heatsinks which had be fitted a specific way and seemed to vanish as quickly as they appeared...