Swiftech is very well known here because of their excellent aircooling products, unlike DangerDen which is not known at all. Swiftech is about the only non-european watercooling stuff we can get here in Portugal. But even so, it represents only a marginal share of the market when compared with the german giants Aquacomputer/Alphacool/Innovatek. That´s why we don´t see many US watercooling products reviewed in our country.
The UK is a different story. They have all kinds of watercooling gear there. Unfortunately, the £->€ conversion isn´t much favorable for us to order from there, even if the shipping costs were minimal.
Marsupillami is the best and most experienced portugese watercooling tester. He does very well considering the lack of appropriate equipament. He does a simple and objective review of the block from an end-user´s point of view. "No Liquid3D´s Shakesperian" wannabe here.
I enjoyed the review, although one statement left me puzzled:
"The top of waterblock is in anodizado aluminum the blue one. As already it is known, the mixture of aluminum with copper in a system of watercooling is highly harmful, resulting, in a next future, galvanic corrosion. For form to prevent this effect, the Swiftech will have added a special layer of a varnish species, that isolates aluminum of agua."
I thought that the simple fact of the aluminium being anodized would prevent corrosion. Is there really any varnish layer over the top of the block?
Marsu:
Deves aproveitar a oferta do BillA, afinal foi o tipo q desenvolveu o bloco.
