too expensive for what it is

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I already have an Alphacool watercooled system, I found there setup instructions almost non existant, unless you can read german. Again with this, very little instructions. However it's straight forward. You get two elbow compression fittings for the front of the cooling blocks where you put the small hose fitting provided. Shame the copper surround doesn't go around the front. You do not get any other compression fittings for the rear.



The enclosure is made of bent stell, connected by rivets, with sound reducing material inside.

I purchased this for a Western Digital Raptor. And boy it needs it. The raptor gets very hot, turning 10,000rpm it ought to. It's added 5 degress to my cooling system. If you want to use this for a standard 7,200 rpm drive, I would recommend getting yourself a Zalman or Xilence hard drive cooler with heat pipes, you could purchase two of those for the price of this.



This is a good product, but I've lost faith in Alphacool, very poor instructions again.



Three stars as it works, they should consider making the cooper housing go around the front of the drive also, and becuase of the cost.