When you purchase something as expensive as thing device is you want to make absolutely sure that it is not damaged when it is transported to your home or office and Zalman has taken every precautions to make sure that nothing happens to this fine-crafted cooling device.

To start with the package arrives in a non-descript heavy-duty card-board carton with two nylon banding straps around it for extra security and a single paper placard on the box that simply says Reserator 2 - 120v/60Hz - 1 ea.  After opening that carton you will find the main presentation carton, this is the carton that will make you heart beat a little bit faster with anticipation of actually installing the Reserator 2 and seeing how well it performs.

Zalman uses near perfect advertising techniques on the display carton as they us almost every inch of it to provide vital information to the would-be buyer.  The front of the carton is used to list the many features of the Reserator 2, Including the most important part that the unit is fanless.  Personally I have two computers that are water cooled currently and anyone that say water cooling makes less noise that a regular heatsink has never listened to my two systems.  Between the 120mm fan and the sound of the pump whirling a heatsink would be just as quiet.

The end panels of the carton do not go to waste either, as one end is used to provide pictures of the key components of the water cooling kit as well as listing them and the optional one that can be purchased separately. 

The last panel gives the complete specifications of the system. All in all there is more than enough information provided just on the carton itself to help someone make a sound buying decision.

Now that we have the display carton out of the shipping carton you would think we would be able to get to our parts and start looking at them, that is not the case.  Zalman has one more protective trick up their sleeve.  Inside the display carton you will find a Styrofoam block that fits perfectly inside the display carton.  When you first pull it out you will see that the tubing (4 meters) and the instruction manual are stored in a carved out opening in the side of the block.

Once you have the Styrofoam cube out you will notice that it is sliced into three piece, you can lift and separate the first the second sections and when you do you will find the CPU water block (ZM-WB4 Gold), VGA water block (ZM-GWB3), two support brackets that attach to the Reserator, mounting bracket for an AM2 CPU, Degassing Tube, jumper cable to short out the power supply when we are ready to leak test the system and a bottle of Zalman's Coolant (ZM-G300)