Stefan Mileschin

I first ventured into liquid cooling for my computers way back, about a decade ago, for my Intel Pentium 4 "Williamette" and AMD "Duron" based test systems. This was when I was in high school and in my early years of reviewing computer hardware. Back then, the big players in the watercooling market were Danger Den and Swiftech. There were no pumps specific for computer watercooling, so most adopters of liquid cooling used fountain and pond pumps. For radiators, the main choices were the Black Ice series from HWLabs or car heatercores (I preferred Chevelle cores). Soon after this time period, the liquid cooling market exploded with many new companies in the market and many more component options as a result. While I stayed more in the DIY/enthusiast end of the liquid cooling spectrum, I remember seeing many all-in-one liquid cooling kits appear. I always scoffed at them. They were never really good, with cooling performance not being remotely close to the top-end air coolers they were competing against, and price was always very high. Today I'll be looking at a modern version of an all-in-one liquid cooling kit, a class of product I used to dismiss. But it's been a long time, and as with any other category of computer component, I'd expect this class to evolve for the better over time. Representing our first look at a modern all-in-one liquid cooling kit is Corsair's H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU cooler. The highest end liquid cooler offered by Corsair, the word "extreme" is used by their marketing folks to describe it. We'll see how that description holds true...

http://www.circuitremix.com/?q=conte...uid-cpu-cooler