Thermaltake Symphony Water Cooling Kit

Cooling Tower

Here are a few shots of the cooling tower assembly.  With an 80mm case fan and my four year old son next to it, you quickly see this is no small fry kit. 

The cooling tower's look is one of a home entertainment system's oversized speaker.  A solid aluminum frame and feel are broken up only by a black grilling on either side of the cooling tower.  On one side beneath the grilling are five 120mm fans.  Each fan has a reported operational rating of 1400 RPM and 16 dBA.  I'm anxious to power the Symphony up to see exactly how quiet five 16 dBA fans truly are.  On the opposite side you see the radiator that looks more like an oil cooler for a large truck.  The radiator measures roughly 700 x 110 x 35mm in size which has quite a bit of fluid capacity I'd say.

Still on the back side of the cooling tower are the water inlet and outlet connections along with a power port.  Four slotted screws secure an access plate immediately above the hose connections here for access to the pumps (yes - I said pumps plural) and the reservoir.

The access door, once removed, reveals a large reservoir and a pair of 12v pumps.  The 90L/Hr pumps are set up in a side by side fashion at the very base of the cooling assembly.  A nice bonus of this design is that it keeps the pressure from the almost two and a half feet of radiator full of coolant mounted above, at bay.  All that fluid pushing down by gravity creates pressure which is good if the system is on but not so good if you need to change a hose or a connection.  Then you can have fluid that is almost waiting to force its way right onto your carpet, desk, whatever at the first opportunity.  That is not going to be the case here with the Thermaltake Symphony.

One of the things about Thermaltake, is that they build on past experience.  In our review of the first version of the Tt Rocket H20 kit, we had a huge issue with the pressure from all the fluid in the cooling tower and the havoc that pressure created if you needed to disconnect the unit to move it.  You don't exactly just unplug a hose with a liter of fluid pushing through it by force of gravity without one helluva mess.  Thermaltake alleviated the pressure issue as we already mentioned with the pumps positioning.  That out of the way, Tt was left with the issue of how to move something this big without making a mess in the process of disconnecting things.  Thermaltake solved this issue by incorporating quick connect no-leak hose connectors.  The female and male ends attach in such a way as the insertion of one end into the other opens an internal valve to allow fluid to pass through.  Disconnection involves pressing the grey button in the forth pic below, to release the ends and close the valve thus preventing leaking.  This makes transport of your computer and the Tt Symphony painless and clean.  In use, the no leak connectors would lose a few drops left in the tips beyond the valve but it was hardly notable.

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