Breaking
Down the Kit
Swiftech
had a brillant idea: why not put the pump and the fill/bleed kit
into one 5.25" bay for easy installation? Well the idea resulted
with this kit. Swiftech takes their 115V MCP300 pump and straps
it down to a 5.25" tray, then attaches a easy to use fill/bleed
kit it. The pump's power cord is already cut and the wires are ready
for attaching to the power relay kit (but I will get to that later).
The pump's is rated at 330gph - plenty of power for an internal,
closed-loop system. As you can see from the photos, swiftech uses
all plastic fittings for their kit. The plastic fittings are very
reliable, however I found it hard to open and close the on/off valves.
After a few uses, they may soften up though.
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The
air to liquid heat exchanger included in the kit is swiftech new
MCR80-F Radiator. This is actually a heatercore and not a radiator,
and a very small one I might add. The radiator comes with two 80mm
fans, one which is already mounted with a fan grill on it. The radiator
is designed to fit on an 80mm exhaust mount in the rear of the computer.
The idea is good, however for more powerful cooling power, a larger
radiator would be desired. I will describe more of this component
later in the review.
The
next part of the system that I pulled from the package was the CPU
waterblock. I was sent the MCW5000-A, which includes mounting hardware
for AMD processors. There is also a kit which includes Intel mounting
hardware instead of AMD mounts. The waterblock is a 2 part construction,
with the top being made of blue anodized aluminum, and a solid copper
base. The block seems to have very clean and sturdy construction,
and it features the quick-release fittings that the whole system
uses.
I was
notified (after the initial review) that the kit can be purchased
with either this radiator, or a larger sized radiator (120mm fan
sized I believe).
This
little gem is Swiftech's MCW50 GPU waterblock compatible with ATI
Radeon 9000 series and nVidia GeForce 4 products. The waterblock
has the same style construction as the CPU waterblock, only it is
much smaller and is designed to fit on your video card. The waterblock
also comes with two sets of mounting hardware, so you can mount
it to an ATI Radeon 9000 series card, or a nVidia GeForce 4 series
card.
The
last bit of hardware included is the PRS kit and 12 feet 1/2"
vinyl tubing. The PRS kit is what gives the pump power when your
computer is turned on. This kit is designed for easy installation,
and is worth every penny spent on it. I use this kit on every water-cooling
system I build for fool-proof operation. Lastly, they throw in 12
feet of tube for connecting everything in the system. The tube did
have several kinks in it (not good!) but this was only because it
was taped that way for packaging. After removing the tape, the kinks
worked out and the tube stayed nice and round.
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