Evercool WC-202 Water Cooling Kit

Secondary Radiator

The addition of secondary radiators is what got the 5.25" H2O cooler kits off the ground in my mind.  Originally, any cooler packed into a bay could hardly cool itself much less a CPU.  A second radiator with copper water lines and 80mm fan added in the mix changed much of this (a copper high fin count primary radiator design didn't hurt either.)  Mounting holes are drilled into the frame so that it can easily attach to the 80mm exhaust of most any case.  The fan is designed to be powered off the three pin male power connector on the rear of the primary unit to keep everything simple.

Water Blocks and Hose

The water blocks for the VGA and CPU are nothing special in their design.  That is of course until you flip it over and look at the fantastic lap job.  Outstanding job.  We already mentioned that the CPU block comes with clips for LGA775, P4, K7 and K8.  The GPU water block is much simpler.  It comes with two brackets, one 55mm and the other 80mm with push pins on either side.  If the mounted holes through the PCB of your VGA card are 55 or 80mm, you are in business.

The included 3/8" OD length's of hosing are all capped with screw on tips.  This makes for some very easy and secure line mating.  The inline flow meter is a great idea.  Lots of you out there are like me, cussing and tapping lines looking for movement every so often. 

Installation/Operation

Mounting the Evercool WC-202 was a breeze.  For an Intel board, the manual requires you to swap in the Evercool mounting bracket which unfortunately requires removal of the mainboard.  Removal of a mainboard is so common that I don't even rate this as a serious con any more.  We still have the same system around that we originally tested the Kingwin Arctic Cooling Kit and the Titan TWC-A04 Kit in so we decided to go with mounting the Evercool in that box.

Test Bed

• AMD Athlon XP 3200+

• ABIT AN7 mainboard

• Chaintech GeForce AA6800 Turbo

• (2) 256 mb DIMM of Corsair XMS3500 DDR

• Maxtor 80gb SATA HDD

• Generic DVD/CD-RW combo drive

• Windows XP Pro

One thing I haven't mentioned thus far is that the WC-202, like most other smaller water cooling kits is aimed at those seeking solid performance at a minimum cost of sound.  If you are looking for something to do some major overclocking, keep on walking, this kit isn't for you.  Others in search of quiet... HTPC folks specifically, keep reading.

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