Bizarre looks means Reserator.
this revieWer’s first exPerienCe of a water cooled PC was with Zalman’s original Reserator. It was a huge water tower which stood outside your machine, cycling hot water out and feeding cold water back into the chassis. Since then Zalman has become one of the biggest names in PC cooling; it was a bit of a worry when it s fied for bankruptcy protection in late 2014.
Thankfully Zalman looks to have escaped by the skin of its heatsinks, which is good news given how effective this weird-looking Reserator 3 Max Dual is. Of all the coolers in this test, the Zalman offers the lowest peak temperatures both at stock speeds and with the overclocked i7-4770K. It manages this in a slightly different way, using a heat-pipe/ heatsink combo which looks more vapour chamber than water cooler.