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RBMODS REVIEWS |
Date 2004-12-16
Provider: Swiftech
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Swiftech Mcw6002-64 waterblock
Today it's time to look at a waterblock from Swiftech. We have one of their better waterblocks on the test bench tonight.
MCW6002-64 is the block we will be testing today. It's a fairly new block and it seems to be able to cool of pretty well after you look at the specifications
and by just looking at it. But does it really compete with the other coolers out there? We will show you the difference on water and air cooling on a socket 754 AMD64.
About Swiftech:
Swiftech was founded in 1994 by Gabriel Rouchon as a Maintenance and R&D Organization for high-end Unix computers and imaging systems.
Early 1998 when Intel® Corporation introduced the Celeron®, we immediately became heavily involved in overclocking. Our engineering background allowed us to develop our own cooling solutions, using OEM products with the introduction of the MC2 sandwich cooler. By the fall of 98, we realized that air cooling was not going to satisfy our clients ever increasing need for speed, and during the course of investigating thermo-electric (Peltier) cooling technology, we immediately recognized the potential application to CPU cooling.
Since there was no serious implementation of this technology commercially available to the personal computer industry, we started our own assembly, focusing on engineering specs rather than economics. The result was the first commercially available Active Cooler using thermo-electric technology to actually perform as intended: the MC1000, introduced in the spring of 99, which quickly became a world standard.
The year 2000 became a turning point in our growth. AMD had just introduced their latest generation Duron and TBird processors, Intel® was coming out with the Pentium® 4, and these new processors radiated twice as much heat as their predecessors. Because we had engineered heatsinks capable of dissipating the combined heat generated by a CPU and a Peltier element, we found ourselves in an excellent position to offer high-end, air-cooled solutions to dissipate the heat generated by these new processors. A string of articles written by leading hardware review sites on the Internet recognized Swiftech socket coolers as the most effective cooling solutions available on the market. Following the sky-rocketing demand, we developed our own manufacturing facility in Southern California in the fall of 2000.
Swiftech is now 20 people strong, and operates in a 6,000 Sq Ft facility located in Signal Hill (Southern California). All our heatsinks and water cooling solutions are entirely machined on site, using state-of-the-art CNC equipment.
Specifications:
Two versions are shipped in order to accommodate the various processor configurations:
Flat base, for Intel® Pentium® 4 (socket 478), Xeon® (all versions) and AMD® "K8" class processors.
"Stepped base" for Intel® Pentium® 4 (socket LGA 775) and AMD® "K7" socket 462 generation processor.
Exceptional quality and attention to details: the base is lapped flat to 0.0005", and polished to near-mirror finish to promote optimum thermal conductivity. Users are advised that while flatness is strictly respected for providing the most significant benefit to thermal interface, surface polish is a cosmetic component and may vary slightly from one heatsink to another.
Re-lapping or polishing the copper base is never recommended
Weight: 11.6 oz (329 g.
The product:
 
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Everything except the quick connect connectors are included with the waterblock.
The main parts you need to keep track of is the mounting kit which is included in a small plastic zip lock bag.
 
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The block is smaller than the normal waterblocks that are from both Swiftech and Dangerden.
As we can see it's not the same bottom on the block as Swiftech blocks usually are. We don't have the nice shine even though the bottom is dent and scratch free.
 
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10 mm tubing works great on thse fittings. You can buy other fittings that you just clip on the original ones.
The mounting is very easy as you can see it's basically only 2 screws that you mount on.
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On this picture the block is not mounted completely but I just wanted to take a quick shot to show you how small the block actually is.
Lets check out some testing results.
Testing >>>>> Page 2
Thank you Swiftech for making this review possible
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