Zalman adds fan to fanless cooling
Zalman's Reserator turned the established designs for PC watercooling on their head, at least in terms of hardware being shipped by the larger vendors playing in that space. Using a tall, multi-finned heat exchanger and pump combo meant the Reserator was damn near silent and had great heat capacity.
I thought it rocked when I reviewed it and I still feel the same today. However, owners soon found out that the unit retained enough heat over time to make it necessary to add a quiet fan blowing over the fins.
While the Reserator was initially marketed as completely fanless, Zalman understand what a slow-spinning, quiet fan does for the unit's performance, so they've created a factory-supported unit that sits on top, looks pretty damn good and does the required job.
The Korean cooling vendor look set to add the component to their Resorator 1 Plus component line-up pretty soon. Hit their website for more details.
