Improve the Zalman reserator
 

My buddy in language, Roscal, tried what I suspected would be a dramatic improvement to the Zalman reserator:

http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php...50&postcount=5

The results speak for themselves: bring out the paper and fans! ;)

Is there some reason a heater core, at a fraction of the price, can't acheive the same goals/results?

No reason at all, but if you BROUGHT the bloody thing, then you may as well recoop at least some of the losses some how :D

I guess. I would just throw it away before I made that mess to it to make it somewhat useful. Only thing going for it is it's looks. This mod takes that away. Might get a few $'s at the recycling yard. :D

Anyway.....

I dont know, do it with a clear tube, and a fan that would suit it (clear fan, LED blue, or one of those UV reactive blue fans) and it would look better than it does stock, imo

Yep... Exactly.

I'm still amazed that Zalman isn't offering this as an option. I understand thay Zalman is all over fanless solutions, but the improvement here is so dramatic, and the compromise is so small... :shrug:

its about design, not performance

Sounds like a Mac.

Another improvement could be to put the tube going into the radiator towards the top of the thing and have it angled slightly so it swirls the water around inside. I imagine this would greatly improve the transfer of heat between the water and radiator.

I would think that it is more about silent performance at a reasonable cost. The thing will cool a P4E, you just won't be able to overclock it.

Aaron Spink
speaking for myself inc.

or better yet have the inlet at the top and force it down a corkscrew design to the bottom...

You could make the screw part out of galvanized sheet metal and wrap it around a copper pipe and weld it to it or use JB weld. Make the screw part that goes around the copper pipe the same diameter as the inside diameter of the reserator. Insert into the reserator and attach the intlet to the copper tube to force the inlet to come out at the top then run down the screw.

Since the whole thing would be filled it would be over kill and probably wouldnt change much from just forcing the inlet to come out at the top but it would be really fun to do :D

It would be cheaper to buy a rad and hide it in the case than a clear tube to fit over that beast. Clear tube that size isn't cheap. Why piss away more money than you already did trying to make something perform when it wasn't designed for performance.

Cheaper, yes. Reserator, no. This is about silence and bling, and what performance it has is nice, it's not the point. They're very clear that it is not meant for performance, "Not for high performance cooling" is what they say about it.