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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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?Swiftech is a very well known water cooling company that understands the demands and the needs from the water cooling enthusiast. They?ve launched the Komodo HD5800 full cover water block series; it?s a cooling solution for high-end graphics cards, and is designed to have superior thermal performance for the top dog Radeons HD5870 and HD5850. Let's find out how it performs on a 5870.?
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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"Here is Swiftech's flagship CPU waterblock, the Apogee GTZ i7. Now if you happen already have an Apogee GTZ for your LGA775 system the GTZ i7 is the same block but with the LGA1366 mounting hardware; speaking of which, you can buy the mounting kit, Apogee-GTZ-Ci7-HD, to transplant the waterblock from your LGA775 system to your LGA1366 system. In all I'm rather impressed with the Apogee GTZ Core i7 CPU water block. Combined with the rest of the cooling system this is the coolest the test bench has run when overclocked or otherwise. Granted, the cost of the overall cooling loop is almost double the cost of the Cooler Master V10, but it is actually quieter..."
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultima Plus is the top-spec kit from Swiftech and comes with some of the company's latest components. Cooling power should be there but is the installation easy enough and the noise levels low enough to justify the cost?
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
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Swiftech's latest water coolin
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Monday, September 15, 2008
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Swiftech has introduced a new flagship CPU water block, the Apogee GTZ. While it shares a similar monker of its predecessors, it promises to leap beyond the GT and GTX performance numbers. The new block sure looks great, but performance is King as we say, so today we'll find out if Swiftech has managed to succeed or succumb to its own marketing hype.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
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Swiftech has been around since 1994 and is perhaps best known for their thermoelectric and liquid cooling solutions that first gained popularity in late 2000 / early 2001. Earlier this year I had the opportunity to test the Swiftech H20-220 Compact water cooling kit, and liked it so much I'm still using it on my primary system. Today I have for review the Apogee? GTZ, Swiftech's new flagship water block. While it shares the same name with its predecessors, it also leaps beyond the GT and GTX performance charts thanks to an entirely new design that pushes and refines both thermal and mechanical specifications to the limits of today's technology.
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Friday, February 1, 2008
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Swiftech has been around since 1994 and is perhaps best known for their thermoelectric and liquid cooling solutions that first gained popularity in late 2000 / early 2001. Recently I had the opportunity to test out one of their latest water-cooling kits, the H2O-220 Compact. I know some of you are probably thinking, "oh no, not a water-cooling kit...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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If you want a liquid cooling system that is functional, flexible and able to be customized to whatever your needs may be, Swiftech is your kind of company. This system uses a self-powered Apogee drive water-block combined with a triple radiator, three fans and dual Stealth VGA coolers. This was done in order to make one bad ass liquid cooled super system based on NVIDIA's SLI platform. As you can see from the results we were able to overclock our 3.0GHz QuadCore X6850 to 4.0GHz without any warranty voiding mods or outlandish voltage increases.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
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The first watercooling kits found their way onto the market back in the Pentium 3 days; an era when 120mm fans and heatpipe air cooling designs were within the realms of fantasy. While watercooling systems have certainly evolved over the last few years, their relatively low demand ensured that they couldnt evolve at the explosive rate air coolers have. The weakest points of the watercooling systems were always the high price, the difficulty of installation and the size of the kits. Swiftech, one of the most established PC watercooling manufacturers have released a new kit, the H2O-120, designed to counter these three major watercooling drawbacks. Will that be enough to compete against the high end air coolers available today? We will find out shortly.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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As everyone knows, water + computers normally equals disaster and RMA all round. But in some cases, the power of H2O can be used to your silicones benefit. There is a fine line between effective watercooling and relying on people believing that it is by definition better than air. Chilling by water is much more involved than a simple HSF combo, which normally holds people back from taking the plunge. With several components (radiator, reservoir, water block, piping and pump) all needing to be connected perfectly, free of air and mounted correctly most will turn to a clip-on air version. Swiftech know this and have decided to release a two piece kit containing everything for aqua heat removal. Hail the Swiftech H2O 120 Compact.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Swiftech recently launched another high end water block featuring a powerful peltier element to deliver temperatures below zero. The last product we reviewed that had a peltier element was the MCW60-T GPU water block. It only had a 188watts TEC element, but now it's time to step it up a notch and see what the 225watts strong MCW6500-T has to offer.
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Trends in waterblock design don't change often. Until recently, it was thought that jet-impingement was the best way to go for achieving the lowest temperature when cooling a processor. Then came along quad-core CPUs, and it became evident that we must look at other ways of cooling these beasts - their core surface is very large, so waterblock designers were forced to return to old-school, large surface area waterblocks. The Apogee GT is one of the first blocks that attempts to offer jet-impingement performance from a block relying on a simple array of copper pins - can it succeed?
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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Well, I really don't know where to start, I can't really find anything serious to complain about. The kit is one of the most complete kits I've installed to date, I didn't have to run around and search for anything, it was all there (except for the distilled water). Everything fit like the instructions said and the performance was outstanding, even coming extremely close to systems at twice the price.
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Friday, February 9, 2007
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Swiftech has done what many didn't think was possible by releasing a block that out performs their Storm block at a much lower price point. By increasing real-estate of the pin matrix they have optimized the block especially for the Intel Quad Core processors and it's easy to see in our test numbers that the block doesn't disappoint...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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There are many good things about this cooling system and case combination that will make it great for many different users and applications. For the overclocker this solution is not the best you can get system for keeping your CPU at its lowest potential temperature. You can get decent results depending on the CPU you are using, for instance if you are running a very hot running Prescott the system will be taxed just to keep it cool, on the other hand if you are running a cooler by nature CPU your results may prove very adequate. We tried four different CPUs in our test setup and we were satisfied with the efficiency of the unit overall.
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