I'm on Xtreme, bit-tech, OC forum and [H].

Was that a first or 2nd gen Reserator?

 

I believe 1st gen, it's the blue cylindrical one with the pump mounted internally. IIRC they went to black on the 2nd gen one??

It's a nifty idea but I found it wasn't enough for real overclocking. The fins would get hot enough that it was heating the air around it. At one point I even had a fan blowing on it to help with the cooling.

Though I do remember seeing a guy in England who had modded about 5 of them to create one HUGE Reserator that stood about 5 ft high.

Look for me on Xtreme with the same forum name. I'm starting to branch out into more computer forums but I just don't have enough time for it all.

 

The Reserator was a deeply flawed design ( I ran one for about 6 months back in the Athlon/Opteron days)...it had excellent fin area to dissipate heat but should have been finned on the inside to absorb heat as well.
The only guy I know who made one really work lived in Finland and had his buried in snow outside his window.

My current chip, a Q9550 runs undervolted at 3.8 GHz and is so cool I almost ditched the waterloop...if I hadn't all the hardware sitting around, I'd just use a decent heatsink and call it a day.

During the warm part of the year I spend more time here and save the PC forums for the time when I can't (read: won't) work on my car.
I haven't touched my computer's hardware in over a year and don't feel the need to upgrade, so it's kind of boring...not much has really changed lately.

 

nah im on hardforums and ocforums, tho my pc specs are falling behind since im currently unemployed *e6700, 8800gt etc

 

I got 100 dollars for het

 

Way to bring a 12 year old thread back from the dead, dingus.