Thermaltake Rocket Fanless Water Cooling Kit

What you get

The Thermaltake Rocket isn't exactly a small item.  To give you a hint, the box it comes in is over two and a half feet tall.  Inside the box we found the Rocket (which very much looks like its namesake), two 500ml bottles of green UV reactive coolant, a Tt Bigwater 12v water pump, mounting hardware for most any currently available Intel or AMD system, four 150cm lengths of green UV reactive 3/8" OD tubing along with a well laid out instruction manual.  Everything was packed nicely inside of a molded foam package within the box.  It would be difficult for these parts to be damaged in transit anywhere.

The Radiator

The radiator for the Rocket is BIG.  I think if you painted it orange, it could double as a road cone.  At the very least, the Freudian phallic comments from friends will never cease.  I asked my wife what she would call the Rocket and she said she'd be happy if it would just call.  The radiator weighs in at a very solid 4 kg and measures two and a half feet tall.  Looking down on its tip we can see the clear acrylic cap covering an aluminum pipe protruding upwards.  Coolant flows into the radiator, up through its center and then out this pipe into the outer chamber of the Rocket.  You can see that the outer areas are actually broken into several sections.  What this does is it increases the contact area between the aluminum and the fluid making the convection process that much more efficient. 

The base is an aluminum plate bend at both ends to elevate and expose the bottom mounted water inlet and outlets.  Notice the end caps with their screw type connection.  I love this type of hose connection as it is very easy to work with.  Your water line pushes over the nipple (accepts 1/4" ID line) then is locked in place by screwing the nut down.  As the nut screws down, it squeezes the line against the small rib you see near the top of the nipple sealing the hose against it.

The Pump

Here we find the familiar 12v pump we first saw with the Tt Bigwater.  The pump is rated at moving just under 32 gallons per hour of fluid.  This is by no means a high volume pump but the rate of circulation here is designed to provide cooling not super cooling.  Thermaltake rates the pump as operating at 20 decibels but I honestly cannot detect it running inside a system (with the side panel removed no less.)  It is powered by a three-pin connector with adequate length to be routed and hidden within your case.  Something of note here that needs to be pointed out; on the side of the pump are four plastic nipples.  The lower two serve as the pumps intake and out put.  The upper two are sealed off with rubber caps.  In other Thermaltake water cooling kits these upper two nipples connect to a water refill tank.  The Tt Rocket kit did not include a refill tank which was surprising.  The pump can be filled by removal of a steel plate screwed in place which allows access to a plug.  The pump is filled at this point instead of the refill tank just mentioned.

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