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Zalman or ThermalTake watercooling

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imported_BikeDude

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I have a ThermalTake Armor chassis containing a Tyan K8WE motherboard populated with two Opteron 244 CPUs.

The noise from all the fans drives me nuts, and I'd like to take the plunge into the world of watercooling. But where shall I start?

Both Zalman and ThermalTake's fanless kits look good to my eyes and they both receive rave reviews. However, is there anything I should be aware of vis-a-vis my dual-CPU configuration? Just buy another CPU waterblock and that's it? (plus a VGA cooler of course)

Has anyone compared the two?
 
You need to make sure that the pump can put out enough pressure for the 3 waterblocks.

I would go with the Zalman reserator, mainly for looks, and for the support Zalman gives to their products.
 
Well, I went with the Zalman. Unfortunately I didn't notice that my distributor only stocks "ZM-WB2" waterblocks and not the new and improved "ZM-WB2 GOLD". The latter lists Socket 939/940 as supported, whereas the one I bought don't... (maybe it'll fit despite this?)

So now I'm thinking of buying another kit and run the two Reserators in parallell (one for each CPU). The ETA on the GOLD version of the waterblock is not good (one site simply says "August").

 
Yeah you should run two reserators in parallel, the Reserator doesn't really have that much cooling power, and I don't know if it could handle two CPUs. Also, is it possible that you get a different block? I've heard that Zalman's waterblocks aren't that good...
 
I read on one site that since Zalman uses aluminium one should be careful in blocks made of copper. (corrosion)

And so far, the only blocks I can find, are all copper based...
 
well i did read one review where the pressure built up in the rocket and it blew a fitting or something and fried the pc😛 maybe thats fixed..i dunno. any rocket vs resorator comparions? not sure i like the look of the rocket, looks more phallic than rocket
 
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