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As I mentioned last week I planned to spend my time finding out how to sell the cooler. I need a way for a person to order one of these coolers and be able to customize it.  Without the ability to customize the cooler it would lose most of its value.  That made it impossible for me to sell them on ebay.  eventually I decided that a custom website was the only way. I plan to use squarespace to set up this custom website.  I chose squarespace because it allows me to create a store with customization products.  Also I have very little experience with website building and squarespace is easy to use.  But this still leaves another issue.  publicity, I don't know how people will find my website.  I do not yet have any ideas how I can reasonably promote the website and or cooler.  I plan to work on this, and hopefully I will have an idea by next week.

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This week I have finished benchmarking the cooler.  I have also overclocked my CPU.  Right now I am running my Intel core i7 3770k at 4.5 GHz with 1.350 volts, But I have not finalized the overclock. Based on the benchmarks I have run I cooler performs well but is also very expensive.  Therefore my best selling point is the customization.  As you can see from the picture above the cooler has a very clean atheistic and the customization allows it to match any computer.  I really think that this cooler is ready and I am almost done with the project.  I am now going to start focusing on a website or some other way of marketing the cooler.  By next week I expect to have a plan on how I expect to market the cooler.

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As you can see from the picture above I have the cooler installed and am currently testing it.  So far I am very pleased with the aesthetics.  The option to customize tubing color sets it a part from any prefilled cooler.   So far the performance is good, but not outstanding.  As you can also see I am using a different graphics card.  This card creates less heat and exhausts warm air outside the computer.  This has also only given a minor performance increase.  To test the cooler I run prime 95 until the temperature plateau's, to simulate a maximum load.  I then run various games.  This simulates a normal load on the CPU.  For the burn in test I am also running Furmark on the GPU to simulate a full system load.  I am also running each test at low and high fan speeds.  I have not yet changed pump speeds. I plan to do that last.

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As you can see from the picture above I have installed the cooler in my computer.  It passed the leak test and I decided it was safe to install. When I was installing it I noticed the water block does not have a back plate.  This is uncommon for CPU coolers but should not be an issue because it is a water block and therefore a low pressure mount. The cooler also runs very quietly.  Immediately on boot I can hear the pump, but after that the cooler is almost inaudible. It should also be noted that I opted to power the fans through a fan controller integrated in my case instead of plugging them into my motherboard.  I originally did not plan to do this, But one of the connectors was too faraway on the motherboard.