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| XSPC 5.25" Bay Reservoir - Clear / Silver / Black |
| Part #: ex-res-104 |
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Price: $34.95
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quality construction
12-02-2011
Reviewer: Zatarra (4)
This unit has a nice finished look. The black/silver plates do let a tad bit of light out around the edges, but its made of acrylic so thats to be expected. I opted for no faceplace and added UV coolant and a CCFL and the thing looks amazing. I highly recommend adding a reservoir to increase the thermal mass of your system, especially if you are experiencing high temps even after water cooling- adding to the thermal mass of the system can really make a difference
 Excellent value
Reviewer: sabar (20)
Great value for the price. It is durable. Have 3 options with looks. You can have no face-plate, or use a supplied black or silver one. Looks great in all configurations. Comes with a single blue LED that fits into one of two ports in the back. Use some tape or zip ties to keep it in place. Make sure you don''t reverse the in-flow and out-flow or you will get air in the lines.
Simple Reservoir
09-21-2011
Reviewer: LiNK (10)
Easy to install, looks pretty. and does what it is intended to do. Keep air bubbles out of the system.
The LED is bright but if you use black electrical tape to mount it to the back of res, it won''t glare all over the place.. Would highly recommend.
Price\\Value Excellence
05-03-2011
Reviewer: Mark G (1)
I''ve had this reservoir for about a year now paired with a swiftech mcp 350 and it works very well. It fits perfectly into a single 5.25 bay and is made of high quality thick plexiglass. It is ver easy to bleed simply tilting it forward. Cosmeticly it looks great and comes with 2 face plates, black & silver, if you like to do projects on a budget like me you can''t beat this res. It holds plenty of coolent and it is being used to cool a i7 1366.
Well made product
12-28-2010
Reviewer: DHL (8)
Nice beefy thick acrylic. Like the metal inserts for the mounting screws which limits stripping the threads in just acrylic.
To the guy who had the bubble problems, you are using the wrong port to feed your pump. The semicircular baffle is used to deflect high flow coming back into the reservior, and you feed the pump from the other side. If you do that, you will not have the pump cavitation problems.
When you install, make sure you have enough tubing flexibility to allow pulling of the reservior out of you system bay by a few inches. Otherwise you cannot fill or top up your fluid levels.
My LED worked fine, but XSPC does not provide a way to mount it. Just sticking the LED in the bore at the rear will not hold it in place. Its just bling, but not thought out too well.
Good Single Bay Reservoir
11-04-2010
Reviewer: Nerfe (3)
I recently purchase this product and No issue at all. Loop this to my CPU,2 gpu and my ram and never have any problem or issue at all. It gives me a lot of flow not like other product out there. I only give this 4 stars because like the other person said, it only have 2 holes on the front not on 2 holes like the other optical drive. Lastly, I have no bubbles or whatsoever on this bay...Thanks XSPC and FrozenCPU(Fast shipping too).
 Be careful if you buy this reservoir...
Reviewer: marine73 (2)
When you enlarge the image you can see a semi-circle shaped baffle for the outlet to the pump. The problem with this baffle is that it has a "top" on it which will trap air that then gets sucked into your pump. I used this thing for about 3 days without issue and then noticed that the tube going to my pump had collapsed from the suction and lack of water in the tube. After checking this out I discovered the above described problem. It wouldn''t be that big of a deal if I could pull my reservoir all the way out, turn it over and hopefully get the air out of that little "chamber" for the output but my lines are a bit to short to allow that without breaking open the system. Of course, now I will have to do just that to replace this thing with another reservoir of a better design. Nice looking unit but poor internal design.
Best single bay reservoir
05-10-2010
Reviewer: Eric (1)
My reservoir, though similar, is half length. I did purchase it from FrozenCPU and this is the link from my invoice, however, the picture looks like a different model and I can''t find one that matches my product. I intentionally ordered one of 4" length, maybe it was discontinued? I used the half length mounted in the bottom drive bay leaving room for a low profile pump behind it.
The only other bay reservoir I''ve personally tried is the Thermaltake Aquabay, but, from the design of most other bay reservoirs I see they will suffer from air bubbles circulating the system. The baffle on the outlet of this reservoir prevents that problem.
LED allows seeing tank level just fine. Fill port is not G-1/4 threaded, not a complaint just an FYI.
My only complaint is that the included hex wrench is the wrong size for the included bolts to mount the faceplate.
Though it makes them look pretty stupid when a company includes a free random hex wrench instead of a wrench to use on the product, this is, in my not so humble opinion, the most well designed commercial 5.25" bay reservoir I''m currently aware of.
 lights out
Reviewer: rjh4758 (1)
Nice bay tank. As far as the blue LED it only lasted 1 second. Came on at power up then went right out then I smelled something hot( electrical hot). So I powered off and found the wires for the LED to be very hot. Tank is nice but could be nicer if LED worked to aid in seeing fluid level.
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