Cooling off your computer’s processor provides plenty of benefits, namely extending the chip’s life and, for the enthusiast, a bit of extra headroom before a processor overheats during yet another overclocking session. Years ago, most people struggled with massive air-cooled heatsinks but, increasingly, water cooling is entering as a solid cooling alternative that is nearly free of the fear of liquids mingling near expensive electronics.

CoolIT Systems specializes in creating pre-assembled water cooling kits. The company’s Domino A.L.C. is an entry level kit designed to cool off your system’s processor and represents an interesting and inexpensive introduction into the water cooling world. We’ll be taking a look at the cooler and what it can do for your PC.

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We’re not one to disagree with stuffing your Intel Core i7 based system with oodles of memory, on the contrary we encourage it. There’s nothing that’ll bring a big grin to your face like barely having to hit your system’s swap file.

There’s no easier way to fill up on memory than a triple channel memory kit like the G.Skill Pi Black PC3 12800 series. NinjaLane has a look at what some of this RAM can do with a bit of overclocking:

The bandwidth results here show a nice increase with the various speed
bumps.  As we stated earlier in the review we only ran these with
default FSB clocks which limited us to use only proper multipliers.  At
1860Mhz we were able to get just shy of 20GB/s read. In private testing
with FSB overclocked this was around 21GB/s with a copy speed over
24GB/s.

The general feeling is that 1900Mhz on stock voltage
would be perfectly stable on these particular sticks. Your mileage may
(and mostly likely will) vary and of course and G.Skill only guarantees
these modules to 1600Mhz (PC-3 12800) speeds.

Quite a speedy memory kit if you know how to coax the performance out of them.