Ahanix Iceberg Water Cooler

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How is it? anyone have it? I am looking at it mostly because of its cheap price and the fact that it only needs an 80mm fan.

 

Not used it, but I haven't read much good about it.....

reviews do not look so good, poor cooling, poor quality...etc..

again not from personal experience, just reviews I have read....


I am building my own custom setup.... seems kits work fine, but custon works better...

 

Ahanix Water Cooler

I have one and it works great ! dropped my temp 10 Degrees centigrade well worth the money. I first cut a hole in the side of the case opposite the access panel side. Then put a fan behind the radiator pushing outwards.when I was playing a game that put alot of heat to the CPU it started to heat up, so I then put added a fan to the outside of the unit so the radiator is sandwiched (make sure fans are forcing air in the same direction) and the temp holds at 30 - 32 centigrade no matter what I'm doing. They suggest mounting on the outside of case for better results, I didn't do it in fear of something like a leg whacking into it. They give you plenty of hose with the kit and its instructions are easy to follow. Clean the cpu colling unit and cpu really good with rubbing alchohol and apply some thermal grease as per manufacturer instructions.

if you going to mount the radiator as I did pay close attention to the space and where you make your hole. Any questions please feel free to contact.

mrbabyblueyes@aol.com

 

i used the original version (i believe they changed it a little). It did an OK job cooling... and I suppose if you mount the Radiator externally it would keep temps down. IMO the biggest downfall is the acryllic reservoir that sits in your case... its very hard to seal watertight, and it accumulates heat since its an insulator.

alone, the thing is mediocre at best, BUT if you have some modding built into you, a few fans and an externally mounted radiator will make it worthwhile... very silent is a +.

 

I used the water cooler you guys are talkin about.It is junk.My temps were in 50 cel all the time.My volcano 9 did a better job.Its not for overclockin if ya ask me.Its just for the stock cpu that someone wants to get rid of the fan to quite the system down.The system is so cheap it isn't funny.If you buy it be for warned!!!

 

I got that cooling system for xmass, did the installation which was not to difficult, but the performance was poor...the temp never dropped under 50c and after 1 1/2 hour of running the water pump went bad.

Good thing I had the temp alarm activated or I would have fried my system,
3 weeks later I built a system for my brother he bought the Koolance case with built in cooling system.

I was impressed with the case quality....It is rigid and very sturdy, the case is built from thick metal gauge, and the water cooling system built in is profesionally installed...That also impressed me, but I was still skeptic on water cooling system from Iceberg experience.

Put the system together...Fired it up....and after couple hours of vigorus testing the temp never went above 40c. The other good thing about this cooling system is that it easy to add hardrive,GPU and motherboard cooling to the existing system.

I just odered one for me...Its been snailed mailed to me but I cant wait, The price is up there but the quality is what you expect from it, I got it for $270 with shipping included.

All I can say is, if you buy Iceberg.....you get what you pay for, I'm sure we all heared that before.

I just wanted to add my opinion cause I experienced them both

Lockman99