Do NOT buy
05/01/2010
This review is from: CoolIT SYSTEMS ECO-R120 Advanced Liquid Cooling (ALC)
Pros:
Cheap, great concept. Like my Corsair H50, this theoretically will be better as it expels the air rather than drawing it in.
Cons:
Let me preface by saying I've been a PC gamer since the 1980s. I'm a beta tester for on of the large hardware companies as a hobby, worked in IT/IS for the last 11 years.
And boy do I HATE the install procedure for this product. I have wasted two hours of a Saturday morning trying to get all four of the screws to line up. I've installed multiple water systems before, countless HSFs, and I can't get this one to fit.
I have a Coolermaster Cosmos 1010 case, herein lies another problem. The ECO made it so my Asus P6T Deluxe barely fits, the chipset heatsink barely clears the hoses of the ECO, and the block is way too close to the radiator. The hoses are bent at close to right angles.
Worst of all is the godawful screw situation though, I would have spent $75 NOT to do this.
I had very high hopes for this product, I just got 480GTX SLi and hoped to expel the heat from my i7 965 out of the case. PCs should be easy to work with, not with CoolIt. Beware!
Overall Review:
Life is short. Work with parts that are easy to install, even if they cost more.
I'm going to return it if I spend much more time on this wretched thing.
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- Brian S.
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