First Look

The box of this product is very tastefully colored and nicely designed to showcase all the major parts of the kit. There is also a rather fetching picture of the kit in full motion on the site of the box to gear you up to get the kit installed and running.

Upon opening the box, you have a lovely view of lots of little boxes filled with the goodies you need to build your XSPC kit.

As well as the general components of this kit shown in the features section, you also have a manual and a little blue LED that you can sit anywhere you want. Although this is intended to be fitted to the top of the reservoir/pump to accentuate any reactive fluids you add to the water, I stuck it behind me radiator fan to give me a nice blue glow.

The pump and tubing received in the package. Plenty of tubing supplied, I overcut since this was my first attempt at a water cooling setup and I managed to have at least 20cm left after all the cutting.

The mounting plate, mounting screws and CPU block. All very nicely wrapped in plastic and bubble wrap to make sure that the chrome finish isn’t damaged in transit.

Here we have the underside of the pure copper CPU block. If your thinking the surface looks terrible, that’s because the underside of the block was actually covered in some soft of packing grease. I assume this is to protect the surface during transit. As you overclockers know, the smoother the underside the better, we don’t want any scratches on there now do we?

The nice 120mm radiator, finished in a subtle but sexy black. Fits in with my case brilliantly.

Something essential to every water cooling kit, the anti-corrosion water additive.

Here we have the 80mm fan mounting plates, the blue LED mentioned before, a 3 pin to 4 pin converter, the radiator barbs and a circular mounting plate.