Rackmount Koolance?!?!

[DirtyDingusMcgee]

I've always liked Koolance stuff. Has anyone used some of these? Not really looking to get it for myself (just drooling over parts really).

Rackmount liquid cooling is becoming more and more of a thing these days. Also....it looks really cool. 4600w worth of cooling capacity sounds like fun.

 

[DaemonForce]

That looks like maintenance hell and no you're not going to find any good stories about it.
Nobody wants a horizontal rad system that goes at the very top of the rack when ventilation space is already at a premium.

Most of the enterprise stuff that ships with anything related will have their own in-house solutions so any vendor like Koolance is an afterthought.
When I started with this stuff, I picked out the kindest PC2-601 Server Case and slowly modded it over the years.
The last thing I did was overhaul the junk aluminum rad assembly for something competent: The last one they made.

It's really funny when people see this and think it's an oven range. If only they knew what it was like before going all copper.
It no longer relies on some junk 3-stage expansion board to operate and can maybe pull an entire amp from a mobo header over a splitter.
It doesn't randomly turbo up the fanspeed in the middle of workloads and the fan curve works exactly as intended. No noise, no problems.
I'm also using the old Pentium 4 era water block on Ryzen. Not the best design in the world but don't care. It's hilarious that it works so well.

I kind of want to see how it works on Threadripper but we're a loooong way away from that. We'll probably never know.

 

[eidairaman1]

I've always liked Koolance stuff. Has anyone used some of these? Not really looking to get it for myself (just drooling over parts really).

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Rackmount liquid cooling is becoming more and more of a thing these days. Also....it looks really cool. 4600w worth of cooling capacity sounds like fun.

Theyve been around a long time

 

[stinger608]

The last one they made.

Wow, didn't know it was their last one.
I actually still that exact cooler. I once had it sitting on top of one of my old Antec/Cheiftec cases cooling a socket 462 3200+.
Ended up being kind of a nightmare bleeding the system and getting it to operate correctly.

Still couldn't part with the cooler though.

It makes a hell of a conversation piece when someone sees it.

 

[maxfly]

Koolance 20yo server gear (it's generous calling it that) vs that rack mount aren't comparable. That rack mount gear crushes the old PC2 901BW I used back in ye good ole days. 1/4in. tubing, tiny gold plated CPU and GPU blocks, awful little aluminum rad and chipset blocks, even worse tiny submersed pump with plastic housing and barbs (CRACK) and lets not forget the lovely light purple 80mm fan brackets. And I friggin loved that monster! Until I sold it with like 50 80mm fans. Yeah, I tried every 80mm imaginable to shut that thing up.

Why they carried over the triple chrome fan grill aesthetic to the rack mount...who knows. Sometimes Koolance just can't let the shiny go. For the most part their modern gear is solid and very little is geared towards consumers. They learned long ago where the real money is at.

You should see some of the other rack mount wcing mess that's out there right now. It will at the least give you a good laugh.