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3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling review - Page 4

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/26/2006 01:00 PM [ 1] 0 comment(s)

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Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling - Copyright 2006 Guru3D.com

Here we have the goods. This is what you need to look for in the stores. The kit contains everything you need, up-to the coolant.

Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling - Copyright 2006 Guru3D.com

The aluminum radiator that comes with the kit. The large radiator fan features an adjustable speed controller, allowing the user to alter the volume output of the cooling setup. The fan can operate as low as 1200 RPM and still keep the radiator cool enough to be effective.

Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling - Copyright 2006 Guru3D.com

The backside of the radiator. Here we can see the in and outflow connections and a fan header / cable.

Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling - Copyright 2006 Guru3D.com

Here (on the right) we see that the water pump (white block on top) is merged onto the reservoir and Gigabyte claim this is done in order to free up space inside the chassis. In the end I'd like to see these two seperated as it is a big unit that is hard to place inside a PC. Two smaller parts would have worked better. It's leak free and easy to fill. Once powered up and with enough fluid in the reservoir a blue LED will light up.

The water pump features a ceramic shaft for reliability and life expectancy (20000hrs). Additionally, the 3D Galaxy Liquid Cooling System features LWP (Low Water-level Protection) and OHP (Over Heating Protection) that powers the system down if the water level falls below the standard mark or the temperature gets too high, and that's a great feature !

To your left you can see two 4-way splitters (with valves) have been included for easy installation of VGA and or chipset water blocks. Add a VGA card, connect it to a by-pass and open up the valve. Really great stuff ! Also great if you need to drain the system; simply attach tubing, lead it outside the PC and drain it.




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3D Galaxy II & Blue Eye Water cooling review
As you guys know by now water-cooling is one of the most efficient ways of cooling down a CPU. And it's not just efficient, it's usually very quiet to the ears and it can look fantastic in a system. What we'll be testing today is a water-cooling kit called 3D Galaxy II (GH-WIU02) and additionally to that kit something called the Blue Eye, which is water block for graphics cards that you can buy optionally with this kit.

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