It is very nicely machined with serious attention to detail. Looks to be about as large as is possible on Socket A (taking into account all the capacitors and such). Blue and red anodizing scare me; ingrained response to OCH products? The clear lexan barbs look HOT though.
Jaydee you bring up an interesting point about baseplate thickness: I wish manufacturers would start listing many such parameters on their site. I understand about "trade secrets" but information like channel thickness, baseplate thickness, overall height, internal volume, weight, and a few other items (force exerted by the springs at max compression?) are necessary to know. My thoughts on the design (caveat emptor):
In essence you have a spiral with parallel channels. That's a way (in theory) to get much more surface area without adding as much flow resistance (pressure drop) into the system. This is a good thing. However, equalizing flow isn't trivial. It looks like initially there are two channels, and this becomes 3 channels at the first turn (hidden behind the inlet fitting): that might be a good idea (assuming you can get the water through all three channels) because you should increase velocity (and tubulence) right over the inlet. I can't tell if the block does this again near the outlet or not.
Somebody buy one?
