Innovatek Water Cooling

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Brian Kristensen
Kurtis
HighSpeedPC
Feb. 3, 2004

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Innovatek Single Fan 120mm Radiator

The all-aluminum Innovatek Single Fan 120 mm radiator has many more improvements and features that the old Maxxpert radiator lacked. Even though it is called a Single Fan Radiator, you can set it up with two fans in a push-pull configuration for a little performance boost. The most noticeable difference between the two radiators is the size. The width of the new radiator, which measures 175x140x45 mm, is less than half that of the old radiator (104 mm wide). The new radiator also uses the compression fittings found on all of innovatek's other products unlike the Maxxpert radiator which required you to slip the tubing over the copper pipe. The flow of water through the radiator is improved in the new radiator. The new radiator design is more efficient and allows for better heat transfer than the copper pipes and cheap aluminum fins of the Maxxpert radiator. This radiator was not sent as part of a kit, thus does not come with a fan.

Innovatek currently bundles a 120mm 83cfm, 38 dB Papst fan with their radiators. I have been told that with Innovatek's fan speed controller, the Papst fan at 7 volts has no real performance drop from the fan at a full 12 volts. Hopefully we will be able to check this out in our future reviews of Innovatek products.

Graph-O-Matic Rev2.0 GPU block

The Graph-O-Matic is Innovatek's first GPU block and comes with two mounting brackets which allow the block to be installed on GeForce 4, GeForce FX and ATI Radeon based graphics cards. The Graph-O-Matic is about 50x40x33mm in size (not including the mounting brackets) and has a copper core measuring 7mm thick. The Graph-O-Matic, once again, is well lapped just like its' older brothers. The top of the block is plastic and can be found in opaque black or transparent red, blue or clear.

The copper core has fins much like the XX-Flow CPU block, but the plastic top lacks the texture found in the CPU block.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Original Kit / InnovaCOOL Rev3 CPU Block
Page 3: Pump and Reservoir / Maxxpert 120mm Radiator
Page 4: New Products / XX-Flow CPU Block
Page 5: Innovatek 120mm Radiator / Graph-O-Matic GPU Block
Page 6: Installation
Page 7: Performance
Page 8: Conclusion

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