Zalman Reserator 1 Plus Review (Page 1 of 8)
Introduction
Anyone who has ever looked into performance air cooling kit for their PC will have come across the name of Zalman, no two ways about it. Zalman have been around for a good few years now and ever since they released the Zalman Flower cooler with its huge wadge of copper fins, have been synonymous with noise reduction and performance. The majority of their air cooled CPU coolers are designed with silence in mind but come with the benefit of being extremely efficient to boot. Expanding their range to GPU coolers, Chipset coolers, PSU’s and even completely passive enclosures, Zalman offer an entire range of passive and fan assisted cooling products.
Zalman’s problem is that there is only so far you can go with air cooling. There’s only so much copper you can squeeze onto a CPU, GPU or chipset. So where do they go from here? Well, in 2004 Zalman introduced the Reserator1 CPU cooling kit, which basically comprised of a huge, finned aluminium reservoir filled with distilled water which was pumped round a CPU water-block. Completely silent and very efficient. Obviously not completely happy with that, they later introduced the Reserator 1 Plus which has the capacity to cool CPU, GPU and Northbridge all from the same system.
Kindly supplied by our friends at Quiet PC we will be looking round the “standard” Reserator 1 Plus as well as the optional ZM-RF1 fan assembly for those of you who want that extra OOomf in your water-cooling system.
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