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Swiftech CoolSleeves
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Author: Joe Di Figlia
Provided By: Swiftech
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Now, one of the neat things about these is that they are EXTERNAL so they can be installed without disassembling Johnny 5. In an already existing water cooling setup, this may not be a huge issue because, honestly, if you put your setup together with kinks in your tubing you should be shot in the head and left floating in a pool of your own stupidity.
I almost hate to admit it, but these things work. It always seems that the simple ideas are the ones that make a difference. Coolsleeves stop kinks!
I will tell you this though; it takes a long time to cover your tubing with these things, especially when you are playing with 12 feet of tubing. Would I rather play with this stuff then play with internal springs? I HATE INTERNAL SPRINGS!
Before Shots:
After Shots:
Mind you, I am in a somewhat unique situation here. 1 length of Coolsleeves (40") should typically fit all the tubing in a single CPU cooling circuit, and 2 lengths for single CPU and GPU. In my workup though, with all the lengths of tubing I have going through my system I could have used 3 lengths of Coolsleeves. In the pictures above, I have the blue stuff going to my radiator from my GPU block and the clear stuff going from my pump to my CPU block to the GPU block. To "sleeve" all my tubing it would cost under $15.00, as 1 40" length of Coolsleeves runs under $5.00 on average.
Although in the above pictures you can's see any tight spots where Coolsleeves would have been needed, I spent some time mapping out tubes and playing with different configurations so I wouldn't have to use internal springs. It would have been nice if Swiftech had introduced these things while I was putting this rig together as it would have saved me a lot of time, and tubing.
I'm not going to lay my opinion down for you in a pro vs. con manner, but I am going to tell you that for the price you will pay for some Coolsleeves vs. a bottle of Tylenol; I would go with the Coolsleeves. They are cheap, effective, and can be installed AFTER your rig is up and running. They do, however, take a while to install; approximately 40 minutes in my setup.
Update: Our buddies over at CrazyPC.com have just informed me that they started selling the Coolsleeves. Link: Here
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