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asetek WaterChill Cooling KIT - KT03-L20

Cooling/Water Cooling by jmke @ 2003-11-11

Asetek, known for their VapoChill product line-up, is diving into the water cooling bussines with their WaterChill all-in-one good-to-go kit. We take it for a spin on a Pentium 4 and AMD setup and see how it performs.

AMD Testing

AMD Athlon XP Setup:

terangreal's test setup
CPU	AMD Athlon XP1700+
Mainboard	Abit NF7-S rev2.0
Cooling	- Asetek WaterChill - Thermalright SLK900U
Memory	2 * 512Mb PC3200 TwinMOS
Video	ATI R9000 AIW
Hard drives	Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 80GB P-ATA 2Mb Western Digital WD1200JBN 120GB P-ATA 8Mb
Optical drives	NEC ND-1300A DVD burner Lite-On 12x/48x DVD reader

We had to change the top of the water block to make it fit the Abit NF7-S.

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Results

During testing the room temperature was 20°C, the SLK900U was equipped with the same 90mm Papst fan we used on our SP-94 setup.

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Pretty good results with the Sunon at 12v, and even at 7v it manages to outpace the SLK900U. The system was rock stable at this speed, and when we took the FAN out of the equation we ended up with a maximum temperature of 56°C after ~20min, after which the system spontaneously rebooted.

The Pentium 4 setup held out a bit longer.. after running for 2 hours the temperature reached 55°C and the P4 speed throttling kicked in and kept the temperature constant. If your system fan fails you won't have to fear for instant overheating with this water cooling setup!

Onto the conclusion ->

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