Introduction
Today we are taking a closer look on one of Evercool’s newest watercooler kits. It’s a nice little thing which only requires one of your 5.25″ drive bays and one of your 80mm fan holes inside the case, if you choose too use that extra radiator they have included. Well, let’s quit this chit-chat and start with the review! (Actually, I’m pretty bad on these introductions 
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About Evercool:
EVERCOOL is headquartered in Taiwan and has its own factory located in Guang Dong China. This means that you can count on availability, as EVERCOOL warehouse is full of components and ready to ship goods, at all times. Our China factory occupy approximate 30,000 meters, there are around 1000 employees. Our production line produces about 2.5 million pieces per month at present, which are manufactured in accordance with the approvals of ISO 9001, therefore you can be guaranteed your special request will be completed in the shortest amount of time. Growing numbers of happy customers such as Hewlett Packard, Acer, FIC. ….etc. can weigh our success and growth. It is rely on our steady quality, fast delivery and reasonable price. EVERCOOL provides the very best products of the highest quality which are cost effective and incorporate the latest in technology and technical design. And backed by first class service and support. We would like to emphasize that we put our entire strengths on the research and improvement of our innovative “PC Thermal Solutions” and ensure you that we do our best to meet the needs of our customers.
Features:
5.25″ drive by installation
LCD display for monitor temperatures, the RPM on a external fan, that the pump is working and the internal fan is spinning
Alarm function which kicks in if the pump or the internal fan should fail. Believe me, that alarm will wake up the whole neighborhood!
The internal fan is adjustable through a knob at the front of the unit
The kit is expandable with a harddrive block
Supports socket 370, 462, 478, 754, 775, 939 and 940
Specifications:
I didn’t find any specification about the internal fan on Evercool’s site, maybe I’m just blind or something! Anyway I found some specifications at the 3DXtreme.net site, I hope that it’s the correct ones for this fan!
Fan Dimension: 80 x 80 x 15mm
Rated Voltage: 12V
Rated Current: 0.26A
Power Consumption: 2.78W
Fan Speed: Low 1600�10% RPM / High 3500�10% RPM
Maxium Airflow: Low 18.86 CFM / High 40.96 CFM
Noise Level: Low
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The watercooling kit comes in this big blue, white, and black box. There’s some information printed on it such as what type of sockets this kit supports and some features. We have the front of the WC-202 unit and the CPU waterblock printed on it too. At the back of the box we have an example how the kit could be installed with a optional cross panel fan and a harddrive block.
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If we take a look inside this big box we can find the included extra radiator to the upper right, a box with the blocks and tubing etc just below, the manual and the WC-202 unit itself to the left and the antifreeze liquid above them. At the second picture you can see all the stuff that is included in this watercooling kit. So if we start from the upper left: antifreeze liquid, the user manual in four different language, the WC-202 cooling unit, silicon tubing, AMD socket 462 and Intel P3 clip, socket 754 and 939 AMD 64 clip, the inclueded extra radiator with a 80mm fan pre-installed, Intel socket 775 clip, Intel socket 478 clip, the CPU waterblock, some screws, C-rings, rubber gaskets, thermistor cable, thermistor tape, thermal paste, the VGA clips for ATi and nVIDIA cards, the VGA waterblock and a tool.
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Here we have the front of the WC-202 unit. We have a blue LCD display that can show the temperatures that the thermistor cable reports and you can monitor that the pump on the inside is working as it should. It also shows that the fan which is plugged back on the unit is spinning. There’s 3 buttons on the unit: set up, and down which you can press on to switch between monitor the RPM on the fan which for example sits on the included radiator, or you can monitor the temperatures on for example your chipset if you have that thermistor cable installed there. You can also setup the unit to max its internal fan when your CPU or GPU reaches a selected temperature. However, the thermistor cable has to be installed on that place in order to work. To the right we have a knob that you can use to turn up or down the speed on the internal fan. Second picture, here you can monitor the water level.
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The WC-202 unit is very easy to install in your case, put it in one of your 5.25″ and screw into place atleast with 2 screws on each side. If you can screw it into all 4 holes on each side do that, then you will cut down on some vibrations which the unit can produce. You can also see the fan under the grill, which is mounted in the unit, it’s a 80mm fan which is sucking air from the top and blowing it through the radiator and then out under the unit. In my experience, it has always been better if the fan is sucking the air through the radiator. There’s some ventilation holes too on the sides. At the other picture we can see some of the internal radiator.
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At the back of the WC-202 unit we have a 4pin molex connector which you have to connect to your powersupply, to the left we have the one 2pin connector for the thermistor cable and by the side of it we have a 3pin connector for a external fan. As I mentioned before, you can monitor the RPM on the LCD display if a fan is connected on this connector. You can’t stear it though through that knob at the front. Anyway, right under them we have the water inlet and outlet connections. If we take a closer look at the other picture then we can see the inside of the WC-202 unit. Evercool have done a great job to fit everything into place. We have the pump and the tank down to the left, the radiator above it and the control card for the display etc at the bottom.
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