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     Some of the better things about Danger Den are not only the care to detail they have in the workmanship of their products but their innovations that keep temperatures down for us Overclockers.

     I have never, ever seen a radiator like this, unless its in a car. But this isn't some take off on a heater core, it is fully intended for computer water cooling. The Black Ice Extreme II has mounts for 2 120mm fans, and 2 more mounts on the opposing side... what a monster!

     Looking further into the box reveals a Plexiglas reservoir that fits nicely into a 5 1/4 bay. Of course you'll need to remove the sticky side from the acrylic which in turn reveals...

     The reservoir itself. Danger Den includes 4 barbs and 2 plugs. We found the need to use only 2 for testing. One thing to take into consideration is if you're going to use a high flow pump like the Eheim 1250 you'll nee to use Teflon tape on these plastic fittings. Any hardware store should have it for under a dollar.

     A closer view of what's included with the bay reservoir. Make sure to use the 4 screws for mounting. Using other screws may result in a cracked reservoir that will do nothing but leak on your nice DVD-RW or CD burner.

     Danger Den is also a distributor for Tweak Monster ramsinks which were needed for a complete cooling solution for our non-ultra GF FX5900 if we wanted to hit ultra and above clock speeds. Artic Silver Alumina adhesive was tossed in for mounting our ramsinks to the card. Instructions are not included as it generally requires mad skillz as observed in our Tweak Monster ramsink review last year for proper installation. The chrome fittings are a nice option for the bay reservoir, and you can't run out of hose clamps when you get 10 of them, although we did have to use 2 clamps from our the Maze 3 kit.

     2 Sunon 43db 120mm fans were attached to a Vantec Nexus NXP-301 for rpm control and then mounted to the Black Ice Extreme II radiator. these fans are somewhat quiet and when the rpm is turned down a notch all you can hear is a nice dull drone unlike the screaming rpms needed for high overclocks with air-cooled heatsinks. Instead of cooling the CPU directly like a HSF you use a bigger fan on the radiator which keeps the temperature down for the water entering the CPU waterblock.

     The Eheim used in our previous Danger Den review was also used for this system. It still trucks along at 317 GPH, although Danger Den is really pushing the Hydor L30, which ClubOC should have a review of shortly.