Closer Look Cont.
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| Once the back plate was in place, placing the cooler on the CPU and using the mounting hardware to secure it was possible to do with just one person, but a second pair of hands would have been a big help. | Closer look at the back plate and mounting screws. |
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| 120mm radiator fan with the vibration dampening rubber mounting pins. | The water block comes with thermal paste already applied. This thermal paste is enough, but be very careful not to accidently scrape it off during installation. |
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| Shown here, the Domino is powered up and displaying the coolent temp, pump RPM, and radiator fan RPM. | Without a flash, the Domino shown here is lit up pretty well showing through the side panel of the case. |
Domino settings and Benchmarks:
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| Shown here the Domino is set to the low setting, noted by the arrow on the left side of the display. | Shown here the Domino is set at the Performance setting which auto adjusts fan and pump speeds for optimum and quite cooling. |
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| Domino set at the “Full” setting and CPU at idle, ambient room temp of 78 degrees the Domino kept the reading of 83 degrees. | Here the Domino was set at the “Full” setting and the CPU put under 100% load. The ambient room temperature at 78 degrees, the Domino kept reading 87 degrees. Very impressive. |
I just filed a customer complaint. I came home to find my home server shut down due to CPU overtemp. I run SETI in the background so this keeps my dual core system working when the server is not busy and I have seen CPU temps of 115 to 120 with a traditional heatsink/fan. . The pump speed indicates ‘—–‘ and switching back and forth from quiet to performance mode was no help. The Domino ALC unit is less than 60 days old. I will relay here the results of the customer service experience.
Question for anyone who has used this ALC….
I have a Coolmaster Centurion 5 case with 120mm Fan on the back so I’m fairly confident this will fit and mount in my case. But by mounting it I am wondering if I need to install another exhaust fan since I will be replacing the only exhaust fan that exists in the case?
Or does this unit pull enough air out of the chassis to give me proper air flow?
Do not buy this, it supposedly is sealed forever…. well the mount to one of the tubes cracked (the lower tube where it connects to the radiator) and sprayed (apparently water based) conductive coolant into my 350$ graphics card and corroded it. I opened the thing and its all corroded and green. Totally destroyed. It’s like they just used plain antifreeze, smells like water and green toxic glycol.
Don’t buy this, its a piece of crap that ended up costing me more money than I thought i was saving getting an all in one unit.
Supposed to work maintenance free for thousands of hours or whatever, I just build my computer band new, it had been on for probably less than 30 hrs total before this happened. DO NOT BUY
I would like to see a picture of your setup and how you had the coolant lines run. My experience with CoolIT products has been without issue and I have never had any of their stuff break or leak on me. That being said no product is without the occasional problem or breaking. Have you at least contacted CoolIT to see if they will replace and or fix your system and their product? Give them a chance and I think they will please you.