Original Koolance case - BAD

[weedenbc]

Do NOT get this case. I bought one about 2 months ago and after extensive modding it still sucks. I put an 80mm panaflow on either end of the radiator (one intake, one exhaust), put in a new Maxijey 900 pump, new PSU with 2 cooling fans, and hardwired all the fans to 12V. I ended up with 115F from MBM on an overclocked Celeron (533@800).

My Geforce2 GTS card was able to do 395MHZ RAMDAC with the stock fan but with the koolance waterblock it crashes at anything over 350. And this was without even using the hard drive cooler.
My suggestion is to do your own. For about $150 you can get top-quality CPU water block, pump, radiator, tubing, and fans. Add $120 for an Antec tower case and you are set.

OTOH, the newer Koolance case looks to be a winner tho. Their site says that it has about 3 times the cooling capacity of the old one and it the SAME PRICE.

Brian

[Thelemac]

Right...the first one was designed to be silent, and was aimed at more of a business type user. One that would have somebody else install their computer into the nice silent case. It performs adequately for those kinds of low power computing needs.

The performance one was designed more for us. :)

[Random Nonsense]

i read a while back on tomshardware that koolance werent all that good, but the new one looks like it could do pretty well! I was thinkin of buying one, but its too expensive IMO