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Water is good for you!

Today’s powerful processors’ cooling solutions are just too noisy, mainly because faster fans are needed to dissipate all that heat. We’re looking at the perfect foil for all that racket… the 20 dB Cooler Master AquaGate S1. Suitable for nearly all sockets, this complete liquid cooler from Cooler Master is aimed at cooling your processor.

Liquid coolers have always been nasty things that most of us don’t like to tamper with for the fear of damaging internal components. Cooler Master takes away this from the equation with a completely assembled kit.

This one is extremely easy to set up—it’s usually a hassle with liquid coolers, but we were able to do it in 11 minutes flat!

We used this cooler and compared it to the stock Intel cooler. The processor of choice was the Core 2 Duo X6800, which heats up with CPU-intensive applications. We overclocked too, just to see what would happen. Note that these aren’t idle temperatures. The results are in the graph.

 As you can see, the AquaGate is effective at cooling an overclocked X6800. At 3.5 GHz, a temperature of just 52 degrees is good, though it’s only 9 degrees less than what the stock cooler does; we expected more.

At Rs 4,500 the S1 makes a good choice for someone looking at an affordable and hassle-free liquid cooling solution with moderate to heavy overclocking. If you’re running an Intel or AMD processor at stock speeds, you won’t really need the S1.

Specifications
Current 0.3 A; Ceramics Bearing pump (life 50,000 hours); 120 mm blue LED fan (life 40,000 hours); base material copper, other material aluminium

RATINGS
Performance  :  4
Features : 3.5
Ease of Use : 4
Value for Money : 3
Overall : 3.5

Contact : SMC International
Phone : 9810026658   
E-mail : Himanshu@amigointernational.biz
Web site : www.coolermaster.com
Price : Rs 4,500