When it comes to watercooling the Eheim and Hydor pumps have been the leading ones on the market.
Swiftech and Dangerden both have released their own pumps and today we take a look at a 12V pump from Dangerden that
we just received for testing. The problem before with 12v pumps have been that they make quite a bit of noise.
Performance wise they have been pretty equal to the bigger 220V pumps but as said noise wise they are louder. That is exactly what
we will be concentrating our review on today to see how loud it is and what performance we can get out of this pump.
Designed with a 50,000 hour mean time before failure (MTBF).
Uses a 4 pin standard computer molex connector
Use with 1/2" or 3/4" ID Tubing
Compact size allows installation almost anywhere in the case
Is powerful enought to supply multiple cooling block solutions (CPU/GPU/Chipsets)
The product:
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A white box contains the pump itself. The pump was well packed inside this card board box so there is no chance of damage to the pump
if it's not treated bad by the post office of course. Inside I found the pump and a small manual that explains how to operate the pump itself.
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The pump itself is about half the size of a normal Eheim pump, this is a good thing though as you save space
and might even be able to mount a watercooling kit in a smaller case. The fittings are perfect for 1/2 tubing but can also be used with 3/8 tubing.
The pump casing is made out of plastic as well as the fitting but the foot/stand part is made out of metal, and I have to say that this pump stands
very solid.
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The power cable is around one meter long and I would dare to say it reaches all over in a big tower case without problems.
Included is a piece of foam with a sticky side so you can mount it under the pump stand to remove vibrations from it. In the foam
two holes are premade for the holes in the stand so you can easily just mount it wherever without having to cut in the foam yourself.
The right picture shows well how small this pump actually is, we have compared it to a Intel Pentium Socket 775 cpu cooler and we can clearly
see that they are around the same size.
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