Personally it I think it looks spiffy, especially when Chip deciedes to make the silver and gold ones. However as far as perofrmance? I bet it will perform no better than a Chevette heatercore (ie DTEK or Dangerden), and of course cost 3x as much, even more if you go the DIY route. So for looks it's great, probebly performs as well as it should, but it isn't going to come near beating the price/performance of a heatercore. Just my $0.02