Suggestion to DSO:Air Cooling Selections

First, I want to say I really like how much the configuration page has improved since I first visited Digital Storm. A tremendous amount of hard work has been poured into improving the customer experience and it shows.

In offering advice to others looking to build a new system, I often find myself wishing there were a couple of additional options in the air cooling selections.

Here is what I propose:

Stage 1: Stock cooling.

Stage 2: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro only

Stage 3: Upgraded case fans only

Stage 4: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro and upgraded case fans

Stage 5: 120mm based HSF such as the Thermalright TRUE, Xigmatek HDT series, or Zalman 9700 and upgraded case fans.

Edit (3/6): In order for this to work, air and liquid cooling would require separate drop down boxes. There are so many options in the single drop down selections box as it stands that more might make a suboptimal situation worse, and in order to combine proper case cooling with CPU only liquid cooling, this would be necessary.

I suggest this, because I believe the addition of a 120mm based HSF is something people purchasing a quad core would be interested in, but also because for those purchasing a system with a liquid chilled CPU only, the option to select the case fans only (for better GPU cooling) is not available. I did not include an option to select a 120mm based HSF separately to keep the number of selections down, as if you need this type of HSF, you probably want the additional case air flow as well.


The naming scheme could remain as "Stage 1-5" or could be altered to match the storm category theme now found in the pre-configured system selections.

If anyone think this idea has merit, or if anyone thinks it's lame and I should just STFU please post feedback with suggestions or thoughts.


Edited by Tyler Lowe - 07 Mar 2008 at 2:44am

Thanks for the feedback Glenn. No one else?



I didn't think this idea was *that* bad.

I support this idea as a future customer, would like to have these options as part of the config page.  Besides who doesn't like options on custom built computers?