So, I'm going to be having a look at a very exciting new product. This is the
Coollet Eco. It is a brand new liquid
cooling product from Coollet Systems. So, I don't know if you remember this
far back, but their very first liquid cooler was the Coollet Freezone. Okay,
so the Freezone was revolutionary. Well, not revolutionary because it wasn't the
first cooler to ever use a tech or a pelchier, but it was the first one to do
it with any commercial success with liquid cooling. So they went from there.
They produced the Freezone Elite as well as the Pure. The Pure turned into the
Domino and the Domino has given birth to the Eco. So as we uh go and unbox this
product, I'll tell you a little bit more about the evolution of it. But why don't
we start with what's on the outside of the box. So I'll use my handy dandy
remote, have a zoom in here, and I will tell you what it says, even though you
could probably read it just as easily yourself. So, it supports AMD, AM2, AM2
Plus, AM3, as well as 775, 1156, and
1366. So, pretty much every socket out there right now, as long as it's not a
server socket, it is extreme cooling, maintenancefree, and simple to install.
All right. Uh, what do we have on the outside here? This looks like the same
thing. Is it like different languages or something? What are they
doing? Oh, no. Oh, they've gone and they've put the same diagram on two
sides of the box to confuse me. They
actually have different bullet points on them. So, here we go. Universal
retention system out of the box support provided for all of those sockets I
listed below. Proprietary pump with a ceramic bearing including well, not
including but a 5,000h hour lifetime.
Okay, so meanantime to failure. All right. Then we have a high performance
radiator which is custom engineered for low noise. So that generally means that
it has a fairly low fin per inch rating. So that means that there's less
turbulence as the air moves through the fan and overall less noise. It also
means you can get better cooling out of it with a lower airflow fan. Superior
cooling performance through technology and that's pretty much marketing spiel
right there. All right. And then on the other side, quiet work and play
environment. So they encourage you to use this both for work and play. It uses
ATC thermal compound and ATC stands for
advanced thermal compound. So, it's the advanced thermal compound thermal
compound. It is maintenancefree. It is pre-filled, factory sealed, and it does
not evaporate due to the kind of tubing they use. So, you don't have to refill
it. High performance fluid heat exchanger. So, there that's what they
call a CPU block, I suppose. All right. On the back, finally, we get quick to
install in any chassis. So, I will be
the judge of that because usually I can
easily find flaws in these preackaged
water cooling products that make it not fit in a number of chassis. So, let's
get it out of the box. I haven't I mean, I saw this in person briefly at CES, but
I never got to actually touch one.
So, all right. You can see that Koolit has attached the styrofoam inside to the
outer box extremely
well. Oh, come on. All right, here we
go. I found somewhere to pull on it. Sort of. Wow. This is
um this is one of the more difficult unboxings I've run into in quite some
time. Ah, here we go. Okay. Come off.
It's like it's box is giving birth. It's
a very narrow birth canal, too. All right, there we go. The box is off. And
uh I the first thing I find is this piece of paper, which is a quick start
guide. And it is a one, two, okay, it tells you what's in the box. And then
it's a one, two, three step uh configure
the retention bracket. So, as long as you get it set up for the right CPU that
you're going to be installing it on, you put on a back plate. And then you secure
the eco to your case and to the uh and to the CPU socket. Next, you connect a
fan and the pump power. So, that is kind
of more than three steps. I think they're cheating a little bit, but what can you
do? This is the AMD retention bracket.
So, you can see where that secures to the block. And you can see the spacing
is clearly for AMD. All right. What do we have next? Actually, why don't I just
go ahead and kind of put those back in there. All right. Next, we have a little
uh elastic around our three different
back plates. Okay. So, we have 775,
1156, and 1366. It wouldn't be a bad
move probably to do a universal back plate, but um maybe that's something
that's coming down the road for a Koolit engineering team. All right, let me just
see if I can get this open here.
Okay. And inside the styrofoam
clamshell, you can see this is extremely well packaged. Check that out. There is
nowhere for this thing to move when it's in transit. I really like that. That
makes me really happy to see them taking the care and attention to get you your
product in as good shape as possible. Here, I'm going to show you the other
side of this, too. So, it's completely enclosed in there. Very nice job,
Coollet. Okay. So, it comes in a little baggie,
and that'll prevent any incidental scratches or dings from happening to
your cooler here. So, let's uh get this removed here. All right. So, why don't
we start with the radiator, which is what the uh the DIY water cooling guys
would call this particular piece. So, it's got a Coollet branded fan on the
back. I'm just going to zoom in a little bit closer so you can see this thing
better. Okay, we've got a coollet branded fan on the back that spins at,
you know what? They never actually gave us that in the specs for this thing, did they? Oh, yeah. There we go. 1,800 RPM
max. It's right there on the box. I just didn't see it before. All right. So,
1,800 RPM max. You can see it is configured for exhaust. So, while
Corsair has a comparable product in their um the Corsair H50, Corsair
actually recommends that you configure the fan blowing air into the chassis.
Now, there are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. This
one takes hot air from inside your case and removes it. So, that means that
rather than taking all that CPU heat and
then pumping it back into your case, it actually removes it from the case. Now,
the disadvantage is it means that you're not using the coolest possible air to
cool your CPU. So, in a case like the
Corsair Obsidian 800D, there's an advantage to turning this fan around,
which you can actually do on the coolant unit or on the Corsair. It doesn't
really matter. And then you could use those top three fans to blow all the air
out. And then you could just bring in extra air. It doesn't really even matter
at that point. So, if you bring air from the outside, you're using the coolest
possible air to keep your CPU cool. You've got a four pin PWM fan connector
here. So, that'll take care of making the fan spin. All right. This radiator
looks fairly bog standard, although they have made a couple small improvements
over ones I've seen in the past. First of all, this may seem minor, but you see
this uh this notch right here. Most water cooling radiators have the these
uh these end tanks go right from the side of the rad up and then over. And
also, they can tend to be quite a bit larger. So, on the bottom and the top,
Coolid has made a little bit of extra space here. That right there is going to
give them compatibility with way more cases right off the bat. I've also seen
all-in-one liquid coolers that are more than the width of a fan. Now, you can
see when you look at the Eco, the radiator is exactly flush with the fan.
So, for cases that have, say, for example, a side window that goes right
next to the rear 120 mm fan. If your radiator's a little wider, it can hurt
your compatibility there. So, the Eco is pretty much as close as I've ever seen
to something that can actually achieve universal compatibility. All right.
Koolite uses their standard plastic tubing here, which is uh it's good and
bad cuz it's not very flexible, but they must use it because that's what prevents
the water from evaporating and that's what makes it so that you don't have to
actually fill this thing repeatedly. Oh, they've got actually Oh, these are kind
of neat. They've got rotating fittings here. This is something new. So, that's
going to give you a little bit better flexibility when you're installing the Eco in your system because you can kind
of, you know, move it this way or that way. Before it was always just putting
so much tension on the fittings, but now they've uh they've worked that rotation
in there. That's very nice. Okay. The pump is powered by a three pin
connector. So, as long as you've got a couple three pin motherboard connectors
close to your CPU socket, you'll be able to plug in both your fan and your pump
very easily. On the bottom of the unit, you can see a nice shiny copper base as
well as a pre-applied thermal compound. And then they've got little labels in
the bottom here that Oh, what did I do?
Don't think I broke it. That's good. Okay. So, how does this work exactly? It
looks like you lift it up and then you
move it. Oh. Oh, that's kind of cool. So, what you do is you actually lift
this up and then you move it around based on uh which mounting hole you want
to use. So, just like that. So, they've got 775, 1156, as well as 1366 all
labeled in here. And then if you want to use AM2, I guess you just
um Oh, yeah. That's what these little
No, that can't be what that's for. Well, I'm sure that there's a way to do it and
it's not that hard and it's in the quick start guide. So, if you actually buy this to mount on an AM2 or AM3
motherboard, then I'm sure you'll figure it out. Anyway, thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the You know what? I guess I'm not quite done. Uh why don't I
just give a brief mention to the uh
where the pump is because it used to be that Coollet would integrate their pump
either next to the radiator or next to the radiator. That's where they used to
put their pump and now they've moved to something that is more of an integrated
all-in-one unit. So the pump as well as the CPU block are both contained within
this one piece here. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Coolit
Eco.