General

All the blocks look great and have a good finishing except for some minor details. Installation wasn't very difficult, on the contrary! The performance is on par with a retail water-block!

Price

Water-cooling is expensive you say? I admit that it isn't the cheapest solution, but it's not that expensive.

When you want to make your entire system silent, you'll probably have to buy a top-ranking heatsink, which sometimes even costs more then the CPU itself.
The Video card will be cooled by a heat pipe solution, but you can't completely passively keep your hot Radeon or Geforce on a decent and stable temperature, so a decent airflow is needed, and this requires more then one fan.

Of course when everything is added up, air cooling will be cheaper, but you can't overclock that high nor have a completely silent system. If you are into case modding then considering water cooling “just for the looks” might be reason enough too :)

But now you still don't know the price of these blocks...

The Asetek water block can be bought for +- € 80, while this custom made CPU block cost less then half of that price!
Danger Den has a similar chipset water block which costs +- 40 €, but Danger Den products are hard to find in Belgium and if you want to order them yourself the shipping and taxes will cost you more then the cost of the block... same can be said for the VGA-block.
At the time of writings, this revision of home-made water blocks cost around 35 € each, not too expensive right?!

So, for these of us who live in Belgium, the Netherlands, or somewhere in the neighbourhood, these blocks are really worth your consideration.

I would like to thank Cees for providing us with these blocks.

For more details on how to order these blocks, you can mail him.

Currently he's designing water blocks for Athlon 64, and he's improving this revision of blocks. I'm sure we'll hear more from him soon.

If you are interested in how you can create your own water-blocks then don’t forget to check out our guide


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