Given their nature, external water-coolers have a lot of room to do things right. Zalman took full advantage of the space they had with the XT and delivered a superb external solution with excellent performance. Though slightly expensive, "you get what you pay for" rings true here.
A year ago February, we released our second review of a Zalman Reserator (
http://techgage.com/article/zalman_r...water_cooling/) product. In that review, I was impressed with the Reserator 2's ability to keep our E6600's temperatures at a reasonable level all while operating virtually noise free. I was a bit turned off by the external nature of the unit but with its simplistic install process, this minor negative could be overlooked in my opinion.
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*Review: TechGage (
http://techgage.com/article/zalman_r...ling_system/)*
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