Ok Yellow Beard i'll be factual and tell you why this kit isnt approved by me.
1. Ive asked countless times on XS though your vendors there on what the pump unit was. I know the product was designed by ASTEK, and there not a great company first off.
Your vendor there shook me off like I was nothing. So i am mearly extending that warm feeling i had over there here.
Another thing that made me mad was how that vendor tried to sneak it on XS and BYPASS the LC section entirely. Instead he placed it on news section where it was hiden until our entire water section jumped in it and shot it down.
2. The unit looks like what i call a bastardization of a coolermaster AquaGate.
http://base0.googlehosted.com/...e=4&dhm=e197d55f&hl=en
You guys remember this? It was coolermasters failed attempt'd at h2o as well.
What you guys did was try to recreate the swiftech Mini.
http://i165.photobucket.com/al...1_Fan/IMG_0031copy.jpg
Now let me tell u all the places that your kit fails in lew of the swiftech mini.
1. The mini uses a Laing DDC. Your new kit doesn't, Your Old Nautilus 500 did.
2. The mini uses an Apogee GT base, which is known as the camary of our H2o World. Your new kit i have yet to see the base, but knowing astek, its probably not great. Simple large diamond matrix pins, im assuming.
In watercooling your temps are dictated by:
1. Ambients
2. Radiator capacity'
3. Flow
4. Blocks Cooling potential.
If we look at all 4, the H5O is very lacking.
You want me to reconsider my opinion?
Give us a full data sheet on that pump, and a picture of the block base. Then i'll give you my reassesment.
However, unless you guys did a modification of a DDC like swiftech did, no, this kit will not get a thumbsup in h2o from me. I will push new people to use a TRUE because of the safety of pump failure, as well as less hassle in migration, without full evidence.
I am not a simple h2o enthusiast either. I probably own more h2o eq then everyone on this forum, and i have close ties to the vendors who i constantly complain about. But when they get a good product out, they hear praises from me.
So if u want this product to get a second life, show me a tech sheet, i'll review it with my pal skinnee and Martin, and we'll give you our new final assessment.
As it stands, you guys make awesome RAM, (im using dominators), Pick out awesome PSU's, Your HX series ROCK.
BUT... your H2O is still behind OCZ's and needs major work. Possibly you guys should team up with a much better full vendor like Swiftech, DangerDen, or Koolance Even.
Heres what another forum has to say for this product:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=612261
To your link, i say read post 27. HardForums did not find your product to be superior to the TRUE.
And u guys know what XS forums thinks of it.