CoolIT ALC ECO review

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Coolit ALC ECO

As always, the packaging -- so you know what to look for in the stores. ECO is the name, ECO is the packaging. Everything is packaged and bundled safely in Styrofoam.

Coolit ALC ECO

Once opened up you'll spot the liquid cooling unit consisting out of the radiator, fan, tubing, pump/cooling block. All pre-fitted and ready to use of course. Next tot hat you'll spot some back plates that supports a wide variety of Intel 775, 1156, 1366 and AMD AM2, AM2+, AM3 processors. There are also some screws to mount the radiator unit at the 120mm rear fan location of your chassis and a tiny manual.

Coolit ALC ECO

Here we have the core of it all, the ECO consisting out of a variable PWM fan (120mm), pump and reservoir assembled in one single unit. There is no selectable fan controller embedded, but you insert the fan header into the motherboards CPU power connector and that one obviously is PWM controlled from the BIOS. You can have it rotate at a fixed say 60 RPM, or more heavy duty at 80% RPM, or have the motherboard regulate this all by itself.

Coolit ALC ECO

When we zoom in a little at the cooling block we notice that it has a voltage wire lead as well, connect it to the chassis/PWR fan connector or something. It powers the pump which is embedded at the top of the cooling block. Please make sure that this particular fan header receives full power from the motherboard and thus is not self regulated, as we want to keep that pump doing its job at all times.

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