Aguatec Blue Ice CP-102 aka Water-X

Cooling/Water Cooling by jmke @ 2003-04-02

Having read nothing but bad things about this cooler, I was bound to find out if it was true. My local HW store informed me they had them in stock. So out I went and got this gruesome duo. Water/Aircooled Heatsink Action ahead...

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The looks

We go at this from the bottom up. First of all I would like to show you the "power" of this heatsink, a magnetic-based motor that serves as a pump to let the water go round and round:

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The pump fits in here:

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I made sure that I screwed everything down tight, don't want any leaks:

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This is how the Aluminium sink looks like sideways:

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The bottom's fairly flat, but far from perfect:

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The radiator is made out of copper and the connection between the sink & radiator is "insulated" by a rubber/plastic string:

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This insulation method is far from perfect and I had to verify everything over and over to see that everything fitted as it should, because the rubber string jumped out of it's groove quite often:

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Time to put some pieces of the puzzle together:

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Okay, with the radiator installed it looks like this:

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First test-run is up next...
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