Intro & Specs:nPowertek is known to us because of their high quality heat column CPU heatsink for all popular AMD and Intel platforms. Today they plunge neck deep into the water cooling business with their first water block, which promises to offer excellent performance as it uses a heat column in its center to help dissipate heat from current CPU’s.
The NPH WB K8-1 is an Athlon 64 (S939/940) and P4 (S478) compatible unit, the S775 version for P4 looks only
slightly different;
nPowertek’s packaging looks more flashy than previous offering:
These are the official specifications from
their website:
Heat Column Waterblock |
Heat Column | 25.4mm |
Height | 55mm |
Diameter | 38mm |
Barb dimension | ID 5mm / OD 6mm
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Even when hidden inside a box you can immediately see that this water block is not small at all, standing 55mm high.
Let’s take a closer look ->