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LarKooler SkyWater 330 DYI Kit Review

Cooling/Water Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2014-05-19

LarKooler was established in 2009 to manufacture cost-effective PC cooling solutions. MadShrimps reviewed their first entry in to the DYI in the end of 2009; while it was not the most high end or best performing kit out there, the total picture was right on track with LarKooler's main objective: provide good cooling performance at an amazing bang for buck ratio. Since a few years AIO units took over a big part in the cooling business, with the most successful being the Corsair Hydro series. Ease of installation is their main trademark, however as most of these are closed loop, there is no option to integrate extra components in the cooling loop. The latter is the strong point of the DIY kits besides being versatile to add extra components they also provide awesome cooling performance at a low noise ratio. The SkyWater 330 kit today is one of those ready to build kits, however price wise it retails at a similar price as the high end 240/280 AIOs. Million dollar question can it beat those in raw performance figures ?

Accessoires and the Build

The LarKooler SkyWater 330 includes all fittings, tube clips, fan splitters, thermal paste and a pre-mixed blue cooling fluid, the latter made out of water and propylene glycol. A 500ml bottle seems at first glance not enough, though one still has 1/5th of the bottle left once the loop has been filled.

A jump start connector is included in the box, to start bleeding the loop, without the need of firing up the entire PC. The pump reservoir unit must be attached to the case by using the included Velcro; a more solid with anti-vibration mount would have been more ideal.

Assembly was pretty straight forward: just choose the right bracket, install the CPU block and radiator, cut the hoses to the right length, fill the loop, leak test and you are ready to go. It took me about 20 minutes to get it all done.

Only draw back encountered during the installation is the vacuum which is created each time the setup is shut down. At full speed the pump was just too noisy, so we reduced the rpm to the minimum of 3600rpm.

Let us head over to the temperature results--->

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