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Thermaltake Bigwater 760i Water Cooler Review

Manufacturer: Thermaltake
Product: Thermaltake 760i Water Cooling Kit
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Shane Higgins -
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The test setup

Thermaltake Bigwater 760i Test system

 

To test all the coolers, they were run on our Intel Core 2 Quad test platform which was then run at default and overclocked settings. As a baseline all coolers will be compared to the stock Intel cooler. All the temperatures were obtained by using Core Temp 0.95 after sitting at idle for 30 minutes and then again under 100% load for 30 minutes. To obtain 100% load I ran four instances of Super Pi 32m calculation with the affinity of each set to a different core. I used two profiles to test the all the coolers and they are listed below. The room temperature was kept a constant 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22c) for all benchmarking. All of the coolers were tested with Arctic Silver Lumiere as the thermal interface material.

The rest of the system is as follows

  • Motherboard: Intel 975XBX2
  • CPU: Intel Q6600
  • Ram: Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 KHX9600D2/1G
  • Hard Drive: Western Digital 250gb
  • SATA Case: Ultra M998
  • Power Supply: PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad Crossfire Edition

Profile 1: The Normal User (No Overclocking)

  • CPU Multiplier: 9x
  • CPU voltage: 1.2000V
  • FSB Voltage: 1.20V
  • FSB: 1066MHz
  • Memory Voltage: 2.20V
  • Final CPU Frequency: 2.4GHz

Profile 2: The Average Enthusiast (Mild Overclocking)

  • CPU Multiplier: 9x
  • CPU voltage: 1.435V
  • FSB Voltage: 1.30V
  • FSB: 1336MHz
  • Memory Voltage: 2.24V
  • Final CPU Frequency: 3.0GHz

Next Page - The results and Conclusion


Review Index
Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The Packaging
Page 3 - The Drive Bay Unit
Page 4 - The Water Block and Tubing
Page 5 - Installation
Page 6 - The test setup
Page 7 - The results and Conclusion