Introduction and Features
In addition to complete water-cooling systems, Koolance offers a full line of high-quality components for the DIY system builder, including of course, kool waterblocks. Check out how they perform on today’s CPUs and GPUs.
Koolance is a well-respected name in the PC water-cooling community. In addition to professionally designed and built liquid cooling systems, Koolance offers a wide variety of high quality components for the DIY enthusiast. If you are like most users who don’t have the expertise and/or resources to build your own components, you will most likely want to purchase a couple waterblocks for your custom water-cooling system. Koolance offers a full selection of waterblocks designed to cool the latest CPUs, video cards, motherboard chipsets, VRMs and even hard drives.
In this review we are going to take a detailed look at two of Koolance’s latest cooling blocks; the CPU-330 (universal CPU cooling block) and the VID-282 (NVidia 8800 GTX/Ultra cooling block).
Koolance CPU-330 Cooling Block (available at Newegg.com)
The Koolance CPU-330 cooling block is designed to cool both single and multi-core CPUs and features a gold-plated copper base and anodized aluminum top. The universal mounting hardware supports all the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD.
CPU-330 Key Features:
• Pure copper base for excellent heat transfer
• 24k Gold plating prevents tarnishing and corrosion
• Sturdy anodized aluminum cover
• Standard G ¼” threaded ports
• Chrome plated, universal mounting hardware
• Intel: LGA775, 478, and Xeon
• AMD: AM2, Opteron, XP, and Duron
Koolance VID-282 Cooling Block (available at Newegg.com)
The Koolance VID-282 cooling block is designed to cool the NVidia 8800 GTX/Ultra graphics card (the VID-280 supports the 8800 GTS). It features a large, gold plated copper waterblock designed to cool not only the GPU but also the memory chips, VRMs (Voltage Regulator Modules), and PCI-E controller chip.
The VID-282 supports both single card and SLI configurations. Koolance offers specially designed nozzles for directly connecting dual graphic cards (available in 1, 2 or 3 slot spacing lengths).
VID-282 Key Features:
• 24k Gold plated, copper base for excellent heat transfer
• Sturdy anodized aluminum cover
• Steel threaded inserts
• Standard G ¼” threaded ports on both sides
• Supports NVidia 8800 GTX and Ultra video cards
Koolance Nozzles
Both the CPU-330 and VID-282 cooling blocks come with G ¼” threaded ports. Nozzles (hose barbs) must be purchased separately and come in three different tube sizes: 1/2” (13mm), 3/8” (10mm), and 1/4” (6mm) ID.
Koolance nozzles are also available in several different styles including: straight, right-angle, swivel, dual video card, etc.
Important Note: Koolance nozzles are specially designed and manufactured to work with Koolance waterblocks. The threaded part of generic G ¼” nozzles (barbed fittings) are typically longer and will most likely hurt performance by reducing/blocking water flow. Be sure to use Koolance nozzles with your Koolance cooling blocks!
