Asetek KT03A-SL35 Extreme WaterChill review

As with most high-end watercooling kits every company tries to include the best waterblock they can. In the case of the WaterChill this means using the popular Antarctica block over the previous "half-moon" design. We've reviewed this block and found it to be very efficient and flexible due to the easily removable top and multiple mounting configurations. Asetek was nice enough to include all of the available tops for this review and after running into clearance problem on our LGA775 system we switched to an Athlon64 939 system for the benchmarks.

All of the Antarctica tops feature easy to use press on hose clamps, while they are easy to assemble the challenge comes when you need to remove a hose. Not impossible just difficult for those of us with fat fingers.

Every WaterChill kit comes with all you need to get up and running right out of the box. Some of these items include:

ALL fittings and mounting accessories
WaterChill Anti Alga Fluid - WaterWetter [10mm bottle]
Heat Conduction Compound - 2 ml tube
Installation Manual

A couple of extra bonuses that we received include a WaterChill baseball cap and WaterChill neck strap thing.

When it comes to DYI watercooling kits you can't beat what asetek brings to the table. All of the parts are constructed for ease of use, all the way down to the custom mounting hardware and interchangeable tops.