While cooling the CPU itself it as an already habitual remedy for most of the enthusiast modders out there, try and fail, to make the cooler they have to work 110% of their capacity to make off with cooler timings in load times and able to have enough head room to do the over clocking routines of the BIOS settings and also the frequent testing with benchmarks and stress tester round to see if the cooler or the hardware is up to the task to play most DX0 games in relative ease and stability.
But water-cooling is most cases a worst case scenario for most consumers or just plain normal PC platform lovers alike, when the humble air cooling and the media savvy passive cooling to sacrifice the amount of noise generated from the fans in what so called rpm maxed out settings. But the cooler form Cool IT made a relative one stop shop for people who like to have only the CPU bathed with cool mineral water when you give it to an exhausted athlete but not in the case of the PCU and any other computer components because they are allergic to such human interaction, and I don’t mean machines (right).
The domino ALC water cooling unit is a large reservoir and cooler for the heated water that passes through the CPU with the support of any LGA775 or if you can as a LGA1366 socket support with the screw once rather than the push pins when you have your first OEM fan product from Intel. Being a self-contained system means that this cooler comes pre-assembled and ready for use, and it includes a CPU block, hoses, radiator, fan, water pump, reservoir and coolant. It also includes a digital controller. According to CoolIT this system can run up to 50,000 hours without maintenance. This equals to 6,250 days (i.e. 208 months or 17 years) working 8 hours a day or to 2,083 days (i.e. 69 months or 5 years and 9 months) working 24/7.
Most the bad things having this type of cooler is obviously not having a expansion bay for any expansion plus the problem of having to place this in the case that you have and the expansion to be also noisy from the fans and the weight being given form the cooler itself and the case combined. But The highlight from Domino ALC is its embedded digital controller featuring an LCD display and a configuration button. Thru this display you can monitor the coolant temperature, the speed of the radiator fan and the speed of the water pump. Thru the configuration button you can set the system to work under three different modes: “quietâ€, “performance†and “fullâ€, where you can choose the balance between performance and noise level that is more adequate for you. The controller also beeps if something is wrong with the system.
With such low price Domino ALC competes with entry-level water cooling systems like Cooler Master Aquagate Mini. The biggest advantage of Domino ALC is the presence of a digital controller with an LCD display, feature not present on any competing product. Another difference between CoolIT Domino ALC and Cooler Master Aquagate Mini is the location of the water pump: on Cooler Master’s product, this piece is located on top of the CPU cooler, while on CoolIT’s product the pump is fastened to the radiator.
