Test Setup

01:08 - Thursday 13 April 2006 by Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: thermaltake, tide, water, tackles, gpu, heat, uk

Test Setup

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System Hardware
Processor(s) AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Manchester)
2.0 GHz, 1 GHz HT, 2x 512 kB L2 Cache
Platform LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-D (939)
Nvidia nForce4 SLI, BIOS 1003
RAM Corsair CMXP512-3200XL
2x 512 MB DDR400
Hard Drive Hitachi Deskstar, 7K400
400 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA150
Networking Dual Gigabit LAN - Vitesse VSC8201 and Marvell 88E8001
Graphics Card MSI RX800XL-VT2D256E (PCIe)
Radeon X800 XL, 256MB DDR3 SDRAM
Power Supply OCZ OCZ-520 12U, ATX 2.01, 520 W
System Software & Drivers
OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2
DirectX Version 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Platform Driver Nvidia Forceware 6.70
Graphics Driver Nvidia Forceware 66.93

Test Results

To test the cooler under a decent amount of load, we ran 3DMark05 in loop mode. First we ran the card at default clock settings using the stock cooler, once with Tide Water with the fan in low speed and once with the fan in high speed.

Stock Clock Speed

Clearly, the Tide Water not only reduces the temperature level of the graphics chip by a considerable amount, it also ensures that the graphics processor's

temperature remains at a low level despite 3DMark05 stressing it.


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