CoolIT Eliminator TEC Powered Cooler

Product: CoolIT Eliminator
Provided By: CoolIT
Price: $199.99USD MSRP

Introduction:

We have recently picked up a cooler from a fairly new company to the computer cooling business - CoolIT.  This company has offices in Calgary, Alberta which is only an hour away so it is with great interest that we look at the CoolIT Eliminator today.  The Eliminator is their second generation cooler with the Freezone being their first and most powerful cooler.  The Freezone uses a total of 6 Thermo-Electric Coolers to chill the water in the closed loop system, where the Eliminator which we're looking at today uses only three.  What kind of performance can we expect from a TEC cooled system?  More importantly what are the power requirements of a three TEC unit?  Keep on reading and we'll let you in on all the juicy details as well as get you a nice close look at this unit.

The box allows you to view the basic components of the Eliminator and whets your appetite to see what else they've got hidden behind the large aluminum plate on the front site.  The back of the box gives more details about the cooler, the MTEC technology behind it, and some very generic performance comparisons with other cooling systems.

First Look & Bundle:

Once we open up the box we get our first good look at this powerful little unit. It is a remarkably little device that packs in a pump, small reservoir, three TECs, a heat exchanger, and a 92mm fan all in a simple to install package.

Eliminator Kit

The hoses are quite small, but they are wrapped with a coated steel wire that prevents them from kinking and collapsing even when bent quite sharply.  This kit is meant to be installed on virtually every CPU from the Pentium Socket 478, up to today's LGA775 and all Athlon 64 processors.

CoolIT has included all of the mounting hardware and a decently written guide that should help even novice users get things installed and running with no trouble.  On LGA775 and Athlon processors, the motherboard will have to be removed, but on Socket 478 Pentium processors, the hardware is designed to work with the existing retention bracket.  Too bad they couldn't design this to work on other platforms without motherboard removal.  That being said, most people that use additional, more extreme methods of cooling fully expect to remove their motherboard to install the new cooler.

 Mounting Hardware

Using the provided mounting hardware and following the instructions in the color manual, installation should take around 30 minutes - if you don't have a bunch of add-on cards in your system.  We chose to modify our case and cut out the restrictive grill on the back to allow the fan to exhaust air with little very little restriction.