TTIC NPH WB K8-1 CPU Water Block Review

Cooling/Water Cooling by easypanic @ 2006-01-15

nPowertek/TTIC is a company known for its massive, big air-cooling products. Right now, they hit the water-cooling market with a heat column powered water block. Can this combination offer good cooling capabilities? Let?s find out

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Product presentation

In the box:

This water block is a real eye catcher due to its unconventional design and golden looks:

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The mounting bracket is brazed onto the heat column and nPowertek can easily change this bracket to make it fit on all current and future CPU platforms.

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The overall build quality is very high, I could spot no sharp edges and the heat column is very smooth.

The K8 version we received also contains a custom bracket, mounting screws and a small bag of thermal compound.

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The installation should be quite fool-proof as there are not a lot of things which can go wrong; the screw/spring combo makes it easy to install the block without over tightening thing.

A few words about the heat column and how it will work as part of a water block next ->

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