Testseek.com have collected 81 expert reviews of the CoolIT Domino A.L.C. / Advanced water cooling kit and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for CoolIT Domino A.L.C. / Advanced water cooling kit.
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.
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The CoolIT Domino A.L.C. most definitely is an attractive purchase as it is able to offer better performance than the top air coolers but at the same time removing the complicated installation of a large water cooling loop. Essentially you get the bes...
Prohibitively noisy at anything but the lowest setting, Average performance at anything but the highest setting, Very expensive for the performance available
From the results, it's clear to see that the Domino does its job reasonably well and probably in line with mid range air cooling. The caveat is the price, at around £75 it's impossible to justify it, no matter which way I look at it.On one h...
•Very well bundled, •Extremely easy to install and set up, •Highly innovative, •Decent cooling performance, •User friendly and informative LCD screen, •Interchangeable modes, •Maintenance free with 2 year warranty...
•Noise, •Performance not on par with more popular heatsink based coolers, •High price tag, •LCD screen not as effective in non windowed cases, •Requires side panel to be taken off to switch between cooling modes
The CoolIT Domino A.L.C is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, its highly a innovative and attractive product that oozes class but still manages to be user friendly. But on the other hand, the cooling performance is not what youd expect from a li...
CoolIT have done it. They’ve not just created a watercooling kit for a low £80; they’ve simplified watercooling so much so that neither is it a scary thought or difficult to install. You don’t need to cut holes in your case and inst...
At the beginning of the review we listed the claims that CoolIT make about the Domino A.L.C. So how accurate are they? High Performance: It is clear from the results achieved on the last page that the product performs far better than high specificatio...
At the beginning of the review we listed the claims that CoolIT make about the Domino A.L.C. So how accurate are they? High Performance: It is clear from the results achieved on the last page that the product performs far better than high specificatio...
