Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer and Water 2.0 Pro Review

Testing:

Testing of these water cooling units will involve applying a load simulated by Prime95, using small FFTs in stock and overclocked scenarios, where both idle and load temperatures will be recorded. Load temperatures will be the maximum value displayed in RealTemp after running eight threads in Prime95 for one hour, and idle temperatures will be the minimum recorded value by RealTemp with no computer usage during a period of one hour. The temperature values for each of the four cores will be averaged and displayed in the graphs below. The ambient temperature is held at a constant 23°C throughout testing of the Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer and Water 2.0 Pro as well as the comparison units. All the data shown in the graphs below is in degrees Celsius. The included thermal paste from Thermaltake will be used during testing and thermal pastes from other heatsinks provided by their respective manufacturers will be used. The fan(s) on each cooler will be run at full-speed for these tests.

Testing Setup:

• Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K - Stock and @ 4.4GHz
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68 AP-D3 Rev 2.0
• Memory: Mushkin Blackline PC3 16000 9-9-9-24 1600MHz
• Video Card: XFX Radeon HD6970
• Power Supply: Mushkin 1000 watt Joule Modular power supply
• Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
• Optical Drive: Lite-On DVD-RW
• OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
• Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 650D

Comparison Heatsinks:

• Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
• Corsair Hydro H100
• Thermaltake Frio Extreme
• Thermaltake Frio Advanced
• Phantakes PH-TC14CS
• Phanteks PH-TC14PE
• Noctua NH-D14
• Stock Intel

From what I see here, for the prices of these coolers we seem to have reached some pretty good performance results. I'll offer more of my opinion next in the conclusion.