Swiftech H20-220-APEX-GT CPU Liquid Cooling Kits

Pros: Contains all components necessary, instructions are relatively easy to follow if you know what you are doing, and offers excellent improvement over air-cooling

Cons: While the instructions were relatively clear to me, I have been building water-cooling kits for close to five years now, and I had to refer to the Swiftech forums now and then, someone with low-understanding might have difficulty understanding them. I had a minor leak in the lower reservoir barb after two days, i found it with my UV cathodes and discovered it was only due to a slightly loose barb mount. I tightened it, and there have been no leaks for well over a year.

Overall Review: Please, save yourself the trouble and research water-cooling, and your case layout thoroughly before purchasing, only then can you be truly satisfied with your results. Q6600 running at 29, 28, 34, 27 (CoreTemp 4 core measurement) Idle, 43, 42, 46, 46 Load

Pros: A complete kit from a top name in h20 the cooling arena. Lots of reviews and other "community" resources to help with research and questions. Whisper quiet pump and fans. Quality components.

Cons: getting over the impulse to look at the fluid level every 10 minutes (putting water with $2000 worth of stuff that runs off electricity.)

Overall Review: Water cooling makes a lot of sense from a physics stand point, but the execution always looked like a bunch of stuff that should be under a sink or in a fish tank. The Nautilus looked interesting but a little too "intro" even for my first step. This kit had everything I wanted to start and available add-ons for the chipset and VGA. The pump is awesome, powerful & very quiet. CPU block, finally something I can install on my CPU that doesn't seem just short of breaking the motherboard when I tension it. Instructions were easy to follow, a lot of the "what if" game trying to see where things will go. I recommend ordering more hose unless you are sure you're going to fit everything in your case. I had to make a last minute trip to get more. As I write this: my QX6700 running 3.4ghz @ 36c, in the heat of battle with SupCom I'm in the mid 40's, a lot better than the low 60c with air cooling. Chipset and superclocked SLI GTS's are next.

Pros: I was previously using a Tuniq Tower 120 CPU cooler, but found my temperatures would climb very high when running 4 instances of Prime95 of a Q6600 B3 stepping CPU. I figured I would give this a try and it hasn't disappointed...it took 10 degrees Celcius off of my load temperatures and that is with the radiator mounted inside the case (Thermaltake Xaser VI case). Kit has everything needed to install and works great!

Cons: As others have stated, you need to read the manual and make sure you plan everything out before installing. This will not be a fast install. This is not a big con in my opinion as you should know this if you have done your research. I spent days researching water cooling before I decided to purchase this and I am glad that I did. I spent a good portion of two days getting it installed as I took my time to do it right the first time. One note, follwing the mixing instructions on the bottle of Hydrx as the manual does not match. I called Swiftech to verify mix the entire HydrX bottle with .5 Liters of distilled water.

Overall Review: My setup is Thermaltake Xaser VI case, Thermaltake Toughpower 850 W Power Supply, ASUS Maximus II Formula Motherboard, Q6600 B3 CPU, Swiftech 220 Apex GT Liquid Cooler, 2x2GB G Skill PC8500 DDR2 Memory, Patriot Vortex Memory Cooler, BFG 8800 GTX 768MB GPU, 4x500 GB Hard Drives, Vista Ultimate 64 bit, Hackintosh Mac OS X (Yes, it works)

Pros: Finally got a great cooling solution for my cooking hot amd 6000+. Dropped my temps on a zallman 9500 from mid 40"s c idle to 28c, and 75c to 39c 100% load for 1hr stress test. Room ambient temp 80f/26.5c. Kit included everything necessary for a clean install with more than enough hose. Everything fit internally nicely in my thermaltake armor full tower.

Cons: None for me, thanks swiftech!

Overall Review: If you have an average understanding of liquid cooling and mechanical aptitude you can install this kit in 3-4 hours taking your time. Don't forget to put the hose ends in boiling water before installing on the fittings. They go on like butter if you do, no soap or lube needed.

Pros: I'm currently using this massive system solely on my CPU until I get the guts to void my BFG warranty and throw on a waterblock : ). My E6600 temps dropped dramatically from my Arctic Cooling 7 air cooler.

Cons: Radiator is huge...

Overall Review: Installation was time consuming especially when you have a tiny mid size case. I ended up mounting the radiator to the side of my case rather than the back due to space constraints. As a user below said the Grommets are extremely tight and need to be jammed into place.

Pros: Great starting kit for people just getting into water cooling. Instructions are easy to follow if you have half a brain. Only thing they don't illustrate is the way the flow should go between hoses. It is very easy to figure and there are plenty of pictures on the net.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I was scared at first adding water to my expensive computer but it is really safer and easier then most think. If you make sure the hosing is on tight and the brackets are clamped down you have nothing to worry about at all. I would highly recommend this to anyone just starting in water.

Pros: my cpu temps were avg 122F/50C when it was air cooled with the orginal heatsink and fan . AMD Phenmo x3. I installed swiftech, and now my avg temps are around 85F/29C. Really AWESOME. it doesnt go above 91F/32C. I also used artic silver 5.

Cons: The tube is really hard to get onto the pump that it comes with. There also wasn't enough of the barb coils for the tubing... Other then that it is awesome.

Overall Review: takes up a bunch of space... i have two big video cards in my mid tower and its pretty cramped now with the water cooling system. I would recommend getting a bigger case... and more of those barb coil thingys if you have alot of bends. Im going to order more tubing and vga blocks now!

Pros: Given the few liquid cooling systems i have used, this has to be the best by far!! it is built with quality and performance and its really quiet, even with the fans at full speed its not unbearably loud!

Cons: the only bad thing i can think of is i could not afford the ultra+ with the chipset and vga cooling blocks, and the price for this one is a lil more than i wanted to spend for liquid cooling but with swiftech you really get what you pay for.

Overall Review: I have an aerocool coolview case with the rad mounted up front in the drive bays and it worked out perfectly. I have this system cooing a q6600 and with the stock cooler it would idle at 50 to 52 deg. cel. but with this on it, it idles at 30 - 32 deg cel. and never goes over 38 after playing crysis!