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Default [Hardware Canucks] CoolIT Boreas MTEC Chassis Review
Felt that this was an amazing system. Love the case but the performance of the Boreas is amazing.


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The BMC as I will refer to it in this review is a customized Silverstone TJ07 which has a Boreas built into it, making for an amazingly powerful one-two punch. When it comes to chassis, Silverstone are some of the best products around which even put my beloved Cooler Master 830 Stacker to shame. This makes it the perfect cocoon for one of the most powerful retail hybrid coolers on the market today. If this combination of beauty, power and strength has a weakness it has to be the cost of the Boreas MTEC Chassis. This unit is available directly from CoolIT and a select few other online e-tailers and goes for about $800 dollars with a pair of GPU blocks and a single CPU block. However, CoolIT will completely customize your Boreas to your own needs if you order directly from them so we are reviewing a slightly different version with only a single CPU block. Pricing for this configuration came to about $800
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You forgot the link mate.

Edit: Oh, it's a TEC cooler too? Never mind.
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AARRRGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks just getting my coffee going.

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AARRRGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shame they dont sell the unit as is.
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Holy crap, keeps a fully OCed Quad at less than 30C full load!!!! That's impressive for any pre-built solution!
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Now this is how a review should be done for a cooler. I applaud this site for doing a proper review, they have stock idle and load temps and overclocked idle and load temps with a high vcore.

And this looks quite good, still would make a custom loop over it, but its impressive for a CoolIT cooler.
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I swear I remember reading a review for the CoolIT Boreas in Maximum PC or PC Gamer while I was in Iraq. They said it was one of the best coolers on the market. So good, in fact, that you had to worry about condensation if you had it working at 100% capacity.
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I think they should have included the Swiftech H20-220 kit as most people would not use the H20-120 kit for a quad.
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they should have included the total power consumption with the overcloced q6600...280+100w = 380w
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