| Details: Building on from the success of Silentmaxx's fanless power supplies we are now happy to introduce to you something even more amazing, a watercooled PSU!!
As you can see from the image to the right, the flow of the water (yellow arrows) does not enter the power supply casing. Heat generated by the
power supply is transferred by a large internal aluminium heatsink to the outer watercooled heatsink. This effectively transfers the heat
out of the power supply.
The watercooled power supply is designed to accommodate tubing with an outside diameter of 12mm and an internal diameter of 8mm. This
is ideal for customers who want to use the watercooled power supply with Zalman's Reserator.
We tested the watercooled PSU in a totally fanless environment using only water to cool the PC. We installed it into the following system;
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Prescott (3.20E), ASUS P4R800-VM Motherboard, Radeon ATi 9800XT graphics card, AcoustiCase C6607,
1 x Seagate Barracuda V 80 Gigabyte hard drive and a NEC ND-2510 DVD-RW drive. These components were cooled with a
Reserator 1, ZM-WB2-Gold (CPU waterblock), ZM-GWB1 (graphics water block) and a Silentmaxx Watercooled 450W PSU.
After one hour of running CPU Burn our results are as follows:
| Case Fans |
CPU Temperature |
Ambient Temperature |
CPU Wattage at 100% usage |
C/W |
| None |
56°C |
41°C |
103 Watts |
0.15 |
With no fans installed in the system you don't need us to tell you it was extremely quiet. The only noise that could be heard
was from the hard drive and the pump in the Reserator but these noises were extremely quiet indeed. So, if you currently have a Reserator 1
and you are looking for a solution to a fanned power supply then the upgraded new Silentmaxx 500W PSU with improved results will be the perfect choice!
All Silentmaxx power supplies come with a full 24 months manufacture's warranty | 
