Zalman’s Reserator 2 Sucks, Leaks
I just bought a Zalman Reserator 2. It was a horrible experience. I had set up the CPU fittings and was getting ready to lay the tubes. I filled the water reservoir, and watched it slowly leak down one of the bottom screws onto my carpet, where I mopped it up with towels. Yep, the brand new $350 water cooling kit I bought online and had Fedexed to me overnight leaked. Dripped water and coolant.
I’ve sent away for a Newegg RMA so I can recover some of my money. On the other hand, the new Q6600 processor I got and the Nvidia 8800 GTS are purring away, albeit nosily. See, the idea of the Reserator 2 is passive cooling–it has no fans, just a massive radiator. Because it didn’t work, I have to run a case fan, CPU fan, and VGA fan…
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on May 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
It was most probably damaged by the logistic company. After nearly one year of usage of the Reserator 2 I have no problems with leaks so far. I had different problem described here: my.opera.com/Jack4Smith/blog/
on May 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I was sad about it, because i was really looking forward to using it. It seemed like a great idea for a product.