Yeah, on the GPU stuff you're paying a premium early on for the ESP/Maestro setup and saving money down the road as you won't need a new cooling plate when you get a new card. Instead, you just buy a new interposer plate. Full card waterblocks are costly whereas the interposer plate is surprisingly affordable. Thrax and I both figured they'd be around $70-$80. Under $50 is a good deal.
They did mention that they're designing the Omni to handle heat loads higher than what's currently being sold so the system can handle future products and overclocking. Geoff specifically mentioned the Radeon 5800-series as a target product since they overclock so well.
Since GPU waterblocks only cost $100. The omni setup is pretty expensive at $300 and $50 per plate.
You can get like 6 EK waterblocks for the same price as 1 OMNI thing with 6 interposer plates. $300 more if you want to run two cards with the OMNI setup at the same time....
My whole water loop was less than $300, including the MCW60 which was $40 and is now on its 4th GPU.
I'd also like to know how loud these products are. Back before I built my water loop I played around with the CoolIT Freezone for a few days but returned it because the noise was insane for the temps I wanted.
Your cooling was cheaper because your video card blocks are GPU-only, whereas the CoolIT solution is RAM, GPU <i>and</i> VRMs. That's a lot of extra overclocking headroom.
Also, the products were completely silent, and I was as close as a foot away from each of them.
Meh, I use the plate portion of the stock heatsink + the MCW60 and get performance just as good as any full coverage block. See here.
Really, I was just throwing my previous post out there as a sort of counter point. There is no denying the ease of use and "OMG sexy" of the CoolIT gear.
Yeah. They're serious about that issue, going so far as to fly to the UK to meet with one review site who broke 3 (THREE?!WTF) Dominos.
The Eco's waterblock/pump unit now has 90 degree swivel fittings and longer tubing to relieve pressure on it and make it fit better. It was one of my big complaints and they fixed it.
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With that kind of maintenance-free kit getting better i think my next computer could be water-cooled :P
They did mention that they're designing the Omni to handle heat loads higher than what's currently being sold so the system can handle future products and overclocking. Geoff specifically mentioned the Radeon 5800-series as a target product since they overclock so well.
You can get like 6 EK waterblocks for the same price as 1 OMNI thing with 6 interposer plates. $300 more if you want to run two cards with the OMNI setup at the same time....
I'd also like to know how loud these products are. Back before I built my water loop I played around with the CoolIT Freezone for a few days but returned it because the noise was insane for the temps I wanted.
Also, the products were completely silent, and I was as close as a foot away from each of them.
Really, I was just throwing my previous post out there as a sort of counter point. There is no denying the ease of use and "OMG sexy" of the CoolIT gear.
The Eco's waterblock/pump unit now has 90 degree swivel fittings and longer tubing to relieve pressure on it and make it fit better. It was one of my big complaints and they fixed it.