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Titan Datacooler DWC-A1 - Budget water cooling tested

Cooling/Water Cooling by DUR0N @ 2003-09-22

DUR0N takes a look at the TITAN DATACOOLER DWC-A1 budget water cooling setup, made to fit in one 5.25" bay. Comparing in to an updated version of the Coolermaster Aero 7 (the Aero 7+) to see just how good and silent water cooling can be!

Testing the goods

Testing the goods.

Now, let’s put these things on the test bench, which consists of:

Athlon XP JIUHB 1700+ @2250mhz (1.85v vcore)

Abit KX333

512mb PC2700 Infineon original with heatspreaders

other hardware that doesn't affects tests, but kept the same

system was not mounted in a case so roomtemp means casetemp.

While maintaining a pleasant 22°C,(it was summer alright, maintaining 22°C is difficult) I used the high, medium and low settings on the Datacooler kit. On the Aero7+ I also used two levels of RPM. One just before the cooler began to make a loud annoying sound (~65% of the max speed) and one on full throttle. But enough of this mambo-jambo, you're here for the graphs right?

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Et voila! All nice and tidy in one small graph. You'll notice that when you increase the fan speed on the Datacooler, the temps go down in equally big steps of 1°C. So the noise doesn't justify its temperature drop. Bummer, but we're living in a world full of gadgets and funky switches, so this is not such a big problem.

As for the Aero7+: the temperature drops quite hard when you use max speed, but you'll have that nasty side-effect: noise. Irritating noise. But when turned down a bit, the noise fades quickly. Silent and in the meantime still performant, the Aero7+ design is finally paying off.

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