COOLER MASTER RL-HUC-E8U1 Liquid Cooling System

Pros: Great entry level water-cooling with performance worth the money spent compared to other expensive kits. Dropped temps from low 50c to high 20c.

Cons: 1/4" ID tubing. Hard to upgrade with a second radiator without adapters. Little difficult for internal installation.

Other Thoughts: Make sure your cpu block fittings are on tight. Ran the system and forgot to tighten mine, ended up with a hair dryer and paper towels to clean up mess.

Pros: Considering the often high price of even entry level water cooling components, this is an excellent price for a pre-assembled and easy to use water cooling system

Cons: As noted by others, stock tubing is way too stiff, plastic clamps look easily breakable. Unit is louder than the stock fans in my Antec Sonata case(stock, it is built to be a quiet case) and a bit distracting.

Other Thoughts: Won't go back to air cooling. I think I have the water cooling bug and am now tempted to build my own system and spend way too much money doing it.

Pros: It's quiet on the lowest setting. This is a VERY efficent cooling device. On the highest setting, I can overclock my e6400 to over 3ghz, stable!

Cons: It took over an hour to install, correctly. The fan can get VERY loud, if you're heavily overclocking your processor.

Other Thoughts: Got this for $xx after MIR!

Oh, and don't use the temperature gauge that came with this thing... it slips off your motherboard very easily, if you use the tape they provided. Just watch the water temperature!

Pros: This cooling system is impressive. An absolutely must-have for any Conroe owner doing mild to moderate overclocking. The system is completely adequate for voltages <1.45v. The unit is quiet, well laid out, unabtrusive, and well made.

Cons: There is an awful lot of cables to deal with, it would be best if coolermaster had chosen not to use full sized serial connectors inside of your case.. a much smaller cable could have been utilized to make life easier. As everyone has said, the lines are like glass.. they do not like to move.. however if you toss them into some lightly boiling water for a few moments, and quickly run to your computer, you can make them into very convienient semi-rigid lines which will maintain their location. They are crystal clear, and have a good finish. The unit is unusable at lvl3... it's insanely loud.

Other Thoughts: All in all this is a great unit. If you exceed 1.45vcore on a conroe you will experience heatsoaking at lvl2 speed. the unit is great, and there are MANY mods that can be done to the system to convert it to a 3/8" system for relatively little work invested. If you've always wondered about water cooling, get this system... can't guarantee you will be able to hold onto it for very long, since you'll be too excited to build your own high-end system, but regardless... you won't be disappointed.

Pros: Absolutely fantastic cooling for the money. If you are overclocking a C2D, this is the cooler you want, I assure you. Average air temps for GOOD coolers (Zalman 9700, etc) are about 40c idle, 60c load on an E6600 @ ~3.2GHz. With the Aquagate @ the lowest speed you will idle at 28c idle, 39c load... and lower at fan setting 2... setting 3 is ridiculously loud. The install is so easy.. no experience with water cooling is absolutely no issue. The manual is huge, reminds me of a Ti-89 manual... almost an inch thick. It really is amazing just how effective this setup is.. just make sure you use quality thermal compound and you take your time with the setup making sure you do everything right.

Cons: Fan setting 3 is a little ridiculous, it's too loud to utilize. Internal mount has an awful amount of wires.. difficult to manage if your going for a clean case look.

Other Thoughts: You just can't beat this cooler.. anyone that says a good air cooler is just as good should be laughed at, it just isn't the case. Also, coolermaster's forums have plenty of how-tos to increase the flow from 1/4" 60 lph linesto 3/8" 160 lph lines... the pump can do 240+lph... very impressive.... so this cooler can be easily modified to a very high performing unit... however the 80mm rad will limit you to just a cpu on your loop, MAYBE a northbridge after mod.

Pros: it is very loud on 3 but i found out that if you switch the fan around it is a lot quieter it does a very good job on cooling everything and i have the cpu, the video card two hard drives the north bridge and the psu all water cooled with a sec. rad. and the temps never go above 105 so all in all a good buy for the price.

Cons: none at the time

Other Thoughts: the only bad thing about it is the tube it is not very flexable so my thoughts is to go the hardware store and buy some different tubes thats all but all in all very cheap system and does the job very well.

Pros: Seemed to cool alright but the beeping was to annoying to really get any load on the processor.

Cons: The temperature sensor would not work so the unit beeps constantly (telling you its not reading your cpu temp) if have not been able to get a hold of any one from coolermaster to get another one sent to me there customer service is horrible.

Other Thoughts: If it did not have this temp sensor problem it would be great especially at the price.

Pros: Good system for the price after rebates.

Cons: None yet

Other Thoughts: With the rebates I got it cheap and it was worth it.I'm not a big overclocker so it works for me.

Pros: Reduced my CPU temp from 120-130 Degrees F to between 95-110 Degrees F over my stock AMD CPU cooler with an overclocked Atlhon 64 4000+ running at 2808MHz (over 408MHz Stock).

Cons: The water pump is a bit loud and drowns out the noise of my case fans.

Pros: Easy to install. Looks great. They are practicly giving them away.

Cons: Overall louder than the stock fan.

Other Thoughts: I suggest not shortining the hoses, rather just coil them like a spring inside the case. They actually act to dissapate more heat. AMD 4000 never gets over 34C.