Thermaltake W3

D_o_S · Jul 27, 2006

Watercooling a CPU or a graphics card is nothing out of the ordinary these days. With the arrival of Core 2 Duo, people have started to put emphasis on cooling their chipset too, in order to achieve higher overclocks. As if Thermaltake was expecting this, they released a new chipset block, the Aqua Brazing W3, designed to cool almost any chipset on today’s market.

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Nothgrin · Sep 10, 2006

One thing to note is that your setup could be affecting the results. @40C that temperature could be the final temperature of your idle cpu meaning that the liquid coolant is actually heating up the chipset at idle temperatures. One way to get better results is to set up a radiator between the cpu and the chipset thus to lower the temperature before it gets to the W3 waterblock.

D_o_S · Sep 13, 2006

Nothgrin said:
One thing to note is that your setup could be affecting the results. @40C that temperature could be the final temperature of your idle cpu meaning that the liquid coolant is actually heating up the chipset at idle temperatures. One way to get better results is to set up a radiator between the cpu and the chipset thus to lower the temperature before it gets to the W3 waterblock.

It is possible that the CPU is indirectly heating up the chipset. However, adding a radiator between the CPU and chipset would have very little effect - there is a difference of less than 1C in the water in a water cooling loop.

XooM · Sep 16, 2006

good lord... halving flow rates and calling it not particularly restrictive? I'm sorry, but the difference in water block performance between .75 GPM (low, but still functional) and barely a third of a gallon per minute is massive, regardless of the loop. I don't care what waterblock you're using or what country you're in; .36 gpm is not functionally useable. Any block that can single-handedly halve the flowrates of an already-restrictive loop is positively monstrous.

@subject of CPU heating chipset: completely improbable unless your radiator is absurdly small with absurdly little airflow. Water-air deltas are usually in the 1-3 C range. CPU temp does not equate to water temp

Processor	AMD Opteron 144
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR Expert
Cooling	Watercooled - Alphacool Nexxxos XP, BIX2, Eheim HPPS
Memory	2x 512MB OCZ PC 3200EL Platinum Rev.2 (TCCD)
Video Card(s)	2x Gainward GeForce 6800 Ultra (430/1200)
Storage	4x WD Raptor 740GD in RAID 0
Display(s)	Eizo FlexScan L768
Case	CM Stacker
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 2
Power Supply	Silverstone Zeus ST65ZF

Processor	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 C1 @ 3.83GHz
Motherboard	Asus P5E64 WS Evolution 0802
Cooling	Sunbeamtech CR-CCTF Core Contact Freezer 120MM + 400W TEC
Memory	Corsair Dominator DDR3 1800(PC3 14400) 4GB
Video Card(s)	BFG NVidia GTX 260 (216 SP)
Storage	Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 SAS 300GB (x2) 15K.6 SAS 300GB (x1) + Adaptec 2405 SAS RAID Controller
Display(s)	LG 24" W2452T + LG 23" W2353V
Case	Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black
Audio Device(s)	Creative Labs X-Fi Professional Titanium
Power Supply	Thermaltake Toughpower 700W + 2x 400W 12V Meanwell Power Supplys

Processor	AMD Opteron 144
Motherboard	DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR Expert
Cooling	Watercooled - Alphacool Nexxxos XP, BIX2, Eheim HPPS
Memory	2x 512MB OCZ PC 3200EL Platinum Rev.2 (TCCD)
Video Card(s)	2x Gainward GeForce 6800 Ultra (430/1200)
Storage	4x WD Raptor 740GD in RAID 0
Display(s)	Eizo FlexScan L768
Case	CM Stacker
Audio Device(s)	Audigy 2
Power Supply	Silverstone Zeus ST65ZF

Processor	Athlon 64 3800 x2 Windosr @ 2.65 (and rising)
Motherboard	BIOSTAR TForce 550
Cooling	Custom Liquid (WMD20RLZT, Swiftech STORM, 2-302 w/ custom shroud, 2x sanyo denki)
Memory	Patriot PDC22G5300LLK
Video Card(s)	Sapphire x1900GT
Storage	1x maxtor 40gb, 2x hitachi T7K250 160gb drives RAID 0, 1x 160gb Spinpoint
Display(s)	2x 17" CRT (dells; one from 1998, one from 2001) at 1600x1200 each
Case	Aspire X-SuperAlien
Audio Device(s)	integrated
Power Supply	Seasonic S12 600watt
Software	WinXP SP2, Folding@Home, Battlefield2, etc

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