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December 2008
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The editors liked
Good monitoring of processor temperature
Supports overclocking
Build Quality
Performance
Price
Almost 8 Years Of Continuous Usage
Temps
Easy Installation
Simple to use
Great Style
Minimal Case Clutter
Better performance than air cooling
Simple Installation
No assembly required
Simple interface
Nice temperature display
Great cooling performance
Integrated unit that comes pre
Assembled/tested
Quiet operations at low fan speeds
Compact unit
Easy to install (pay attention to the tubing routing)
Very affordable Liquid Cooling solution
Very quiet at "Low" and "Medium"
Good performance for such a small kit
Excellent Warranty (2 Years)
Solid construction
Multiple performance modes
Plugs into a 3-pin motherboard fan header
Nice displ
Preassembled and ready to install
Great performance
Compact and totally selfcontained
Easy and quick installation
Excellent liquid cooling value
Very quiet (Quiet and Performance modes)
Informative and useful LCD screen
Wide compatibility
Very effective cooler
Easiest liquid cooler to install on the current market
LCD Readout is handy (for windowed cases)
All but silent in "quiet" mode
Comes ready to mount with most current CPU sockets
Opens the door for serious overclocking
Under
Unit is completely sealed and maintenance free
Barely audible on Quiet mode
Fairly straight forward to install
Great instruction manual
Comes with mounting hardware for current Intel and AMD platforms
Virtually silent on low
Bearable on medium
Fairly easy installation
Decent performance
Nice introduction to liquid cooling
Liquid cooling without the hassles
100% Maintenance Free
Moderate performance
Should work in most chassis
Good price point
Less strain on the motherboard
2 Year Warranty
Easy to install
Competitive pricing
Compatible with latest CPU releases
Build quality
Ease of use
Totally contained
Dropin system
Incredibly low price
Easy install
Good performance
Fantastic price.
Water Cooling!
Excellent performance
Affordable
Three different fan speed modes
Backlit LCD screen
Easy installation
Supports both Intel and AMD
Thermal compound preapplied
Coolant already in cooler
Liquid cooling at a great price
Ease of install (DOE)
Coolness factor
Low price
Quality product
2 year warranty
Huge amount of weight taken off MB
The editors didn't like
LCD display requires windowed computer case to view
Hard to fit into smaller system enclosures
Availability Inside The EU
I hate back plates but thats just me
Stiff water hoses make installation a little difficult if you aren’t careful
Gold
May not work in all cases
A little loud at high fan speeds
No AMD backplate
Must remove side panel to switch modes.
Loud (Full mode)
Case must have rear 120mm fan placement
Comes right up to the side of the case
Interferes with cases with side fans
More expensive than most air coolers
Cost is comparable to higher end air coolers
May not be able to pre-mount on some motherboards
Not upgradeable/expandable
Very loud on high
Have to take case side off every time to adjust speeds
Noise when set to Full mode
Have to remove side panel for adjustments
Smallish tubing is rigid
Fan gets very loud on high speeds.
No provisions for upgrades or adding waterblocks
Switch/LED blocked by side panel
Inferior to other water coolers. Loud at top speed.
Requirement is a case with a 120mm fan slot
Motherboard must be removed for installation
To change the fan speed
You must open your case
Loop cannot be extended to cool other components
LCD will not be seen in you do not have a window in side panel.
I liked working with the CoolIT Domino Advanced Liquid Cooling system. Installing it is very easy if you follow the steps detailed in the user guide. In fact it is accessible to pretty much everyone, despite it being still a bit more complex than a pus...
Very effective cooler, Easiest liquid cooler to install on the current market, LCD Readout is handy (for windowed cases), All but silent in "quiet" mode, Comes ready to mount with most current CPU sockets, Opens the door for serious overclocking, Under
Comes right up to the side of the case; interferes with cases with side fans, More expensive than most air coolers
Put simply, wed pay twice the price for a liquid cooling system this handy, simple to install, and effective. The Domino A. L. C. is one of CoolIT Systems best efforts. Compared to a stock fan, it does wonders for allowing serious overclocking of a ...
We found the installation of the Domino A.L.C. very simple and well documented in the manual. The Quiet and Performance settings provide exceptional cooling at very low noise levels. On the High setting the core and coolant temps change very little ev...
Build Quality, Performance, Price, Almost 8 Years Of Continuous Usage
Availability Inside The EU
Although the Domino A.L.C did not manage to outperform all of the Air Cooling solutions in the tests it is clear that CoolIT Systems spent lots of time developing it and by doing so they managed to make a winner since not only this unit is ...
Published: 2009-07-10, Author: Peter , review by: icrontic.com
The ALC unit with the waterblock. The Domino is a mixed bag it seems. The performance isn’t terrible by any means, but it’s nothing spectacular either. Lets run down the list of reasons people might consider water cooling, and how the Domino fits in t...
So how do we sum up the Domino A.L.C? Well over the last few pages we've seen that it's a well built unit that feels solid enough to last. The Domino is a good looking solution too, that might be down to the fact that once installed you can't see much mo...
Abstract: Water cooling at a relatively low price and with an easy path to installation is arguably a Holy Grail of the CPU cooling world, and although CoolIT arent the first company to try to fill this particular market segment theyre just about the best we...
Been thinking about water cooling? The CoolIT Domino ALC is an inexpensive way to get some of the benefits of water cooling in a small, well designed package. We found the Domino a joy to work with, easy to install and easier to use. We loved the on t...
We've mellowed to the installation being not as bad as we thought and the performance "wins" on the graph but in real life it doesn't because it's just invasively loud. Coupled with no merit in value and a complete lack of customisation, there's no rea...
