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ActiveCool AC4G review

Cooling/Water Cooling by DUR0N @ 2002-12-14

Howdy people, this is my first review for [M]adshrimps, and it?s going to be a damn fine one I?m telling you!
Nowadays most people want a silent heatsink/fan and good temperatures. You can have it quiet, but you will lose the nice temps. You can mix em up, and have a nice combo or you can just turn mad and buy the loudest and fastest fans around. Today no loud crap, we?ll do it the silent and performing way. Is it possible? Well, you?ll find out in a minute. I?m going to guide you trough the ActiveCool AC4G CPU cooler. Expect heatsinks, peltier elements, getto setups and a totaly crazy reviewer.

The installation

Installation:

Activecool claims that their cooling solution can be installed in less then 90 seconds in any PC. Time to test it, right? 3...2...1...GO! 77 seconds later the heatsink was installed. Not bad for a lazy person :)

Ok, with the 90 second limit they aren´t lying: it´s easy as hell and you don´t need to think about which wire goes in the card etc. The installation is pretty straightforward and can be done by the less inteligent people like the one in the movie ;p

Madshrimps (c)

So, when the cooler is installed, it should look like this.

Madshrimps (c)

Notice that I´ve attached the CPU fan connector to the mainbord. I wanted to find out what the card did when no fan was attached but there still was an RPM signal. Well, the system wouldn´t boot. No more, no less. You press the power button an all the LED"s are working, but you don"t get any screen output. Damn security :)

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