Your Title:
"Cooler Master Aquagate Max: New Hope among Mass Liquid-Cooling Systems"
Your conclusion:
"It turned out pretty hard to draw any definite conclusions today. On the one hand, let’s try to answer the following question: what will potential Aquagate Max users get? A liquid-cooling system as efficient as a good air-cooler, compatible with limited number of system cases, equipped with uncontrollable fans generating tangible noise and featuring a price tag of $229. Doesn’t seem to be very promising, does it?"

You should have said buy a $30 fan and save some money.

freezing point starts only at 33ºC
I sure hope no one in North Dakota buys one. It will be frozen 75% of the time! I think they meant 33*F.

Thank you for the informative article. I am looking at water cooling my Cosmos system (E6850, 2x 3870 ATI X-Fire, 8GB RAM, 1.3TB total hard drive space, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 CPU cooler, 3 Scythe S-Flex 120mm fans intake/out and 2 AeroCool Streamliner's 140mm on the top).

I do wish the GPU blocks were included but it doesn't matter to me because I just installed Accelero's on the cards and they dropped temps down by 15-20 idling at 40 vs.55+ with max load reaching 63 vs. 78+ previously. Pretty good for a room that is about 75-80 F. I don't like to run the AC :-)

CPU Cores run 47-49 idle, 55+ load, so I'm not sure this solution is worth the effort.

they should include everything into the package including the cooling blocks for the HDDs....

The stock fans are adjustable even to the point of automatic with setting that you choose. Just hook up the supplied USB cable to you nvidia motherboard. Go here http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.02.html. Download Nvidia ESA software. Install then go to nvidia control panel click performance ,you will be asked for agreement , then go to device settings in performance tab. You will see your water cooler as well as ram, GPU, and mobo. Click on the waterblock and you can manually adjust the fans from 30-100 percent. You can also set for automatic incremental adjustments by setting a component rule. It works great and my mobo isnt even ESA. My chipset is asus 590 sli. Its too bad that this was not documented in the manual.

The water block is not the best but for those types you need to mount them vertically with the intake at the bottom. Not horizontal as in the test.

I have that aquagate max but I am not very pleased whit it.As you sad it is good as air cooler. Such shame on you coolermaster.