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Intro
If you have spent any time at all researching water cooling, you have undoubtedly come across the name Danger Den. They have been around along time and have outlived many of their (now defunct) competitors. Danger Den made their name with maze style blocks. The Maze 1 and 2 got them firmly seated as pillars in the water cooling community. The Maze 3 is simply legendary, and is probably still one of the best selling water blocks of all time. Danger Den shook things up a bit with the advent of the Maze 4, which really abandoned the maze platform and moved to a channel based design.
Over the past year, some major waterblock design changes took the community by storm. With the introduction of the White Water (and subsequently the Cascade) the principles of water block design were stepped up to a new level. The concepts of impingement and channeling are now on everyone's minds, and blocks designed around these principles are certainly putting up the performance numbers!
The RBX represents Danger Den's latest foray into water block design. Incorporating both impingement and channeling, along with a few novel designs, the RBX steps forward to take on the competition. I will present the waterblock, and test it against my tried and true maze style block. To further evaluate this new cooler, my Co-Pimp AntiM will test the RBX against one of the prime waterblocks in his arsenal (I could tell you now, but why spoil the surprise!).
The Block
The Danger Den RBX arrived at my door in a simple brown box. Within this box was a smaller white box surrounded by packing peanuts. There was little chance of this block being damaged in transport. On opening the small white box we find two small bags of accessories, and the waterblock itself.
The RBX is a beautiful block with an appealing shape, and a nice finish. The base is very professionally machined copper, and the top a striking polished polycarbonate (it is also available with a brass top). The three 1/2" ID chrome hose barbs are a nice feature, definitely a little eye candy!
The base of the RBX is very flat and smooth, but clearly is not well lapped. Frankly, with today's high end thermal compounds, I don't believe lapping to a mirror finish is necessary. Some may argue otherwise. I was surprised to see that the base of the block was unprotected. A piece of plastic "cling" sheeting (please nothing with adhesive) would have been nice.
The block came with all the hardware needed for mounting on an AMD board with holes around the socket. It also comes with a "Y" fitting which will allow the end user to combine the two block outlets into a single channel for mating with the rest of the cooling loop. Before we crack open the RBX to see what makes it tick, let's look at what accessories it ships with:
- 4 threaded bolts (headless)
- 4 brass thumb nuts
- 4 compression springs
- 8 stainless hex nuts
- 16 assorted plastic washers
- 6 anti-crush pads
- "Y" fitting
- 5 accelerator plates (optional)
- an Allen key (optional)
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