I'm looking to watercool my Antec Aria and had planned on the Reserator, but after looking into it, I'm not 100% sure that the Reserator will be able to handle the 3400+ and the 9800XT comfortably. I know of two other good external kits available; the Corsair Hydrocool EX and the Koolance Exos. Now I have always loved the Exos and still do, but I feel that as it'll be combined with an Antec Aria, it would look a little out of place. Also, I'm not sure the Corsair has compatability with Athlon64 and is also the weakest of the three. Basically, will the Reserator handle the CPU and graphics card?
The reserator is an awesome water cooling kit, not only does it do the job it looks good too. It keeps my 2600XP clocked to 2.3 at a cool 23*C. Therefore i would expect it to be able to keep the 64 at a good temperature too. I'm planning to add the GPU block, and results show that this doesnt affect the overall temperature that much. To be honest i don't think you can go wrong with it. oh did i mention that its silent too
Currently use an Exos on both my XP3200+ (Barton-Very HOT!!) and Nvidia 6800GT .... wprks brilliantly !!
I think your motherboard is reporting your temperatures incorrectly tbh, unless you live somewhere extremely cold and have no heating in your house
Hydrocool and weak? Hardly dude. Consider that with slight mods mine has a lovely c/w ratio of 0.08. It's a really good bit of kit.
i'd have to agree! ... when will people stop trusting motherboard sensors! A useful addition to that information would have been a comparison to an air cooled setup using the same CPU and mobo and settings, naming the HSF used, under similar ambient conditions.
