Nice to know you got good temps, everyone else was just abit worried about your possible inexperience. Don't let them put you down, as long as your happy thats all that matters, they should be more positive.
I think in a perfect world we would all have external watercooling taking the heat out of our systems, but visually its not for everyone. So the people goning the internal watercooling route know what compromises they are having to accept inorder for there system to look the way they want.
I personally prefer internal watercooling, but that Zalman kit looks very smart and as you have discovered it performs very well indeed!
Spot on!