Corsair Water Cooling System - Testing Setup

Testing Setup

The comparison will be made on three levels:

• Idle, cooling with air/water
• At load (Gaming in UT2K4), cooling with air/water
• Playing media (movie), cooling with air/water

Here are the specs of the PC we used:

• CPU: Pentium 4 2.4C socket 478  800MHZ
• Motherboard: ASUS P4P800 rev.2
• RAM: Mushkin PC3500 lvl 2 1GB
• Temperature gauge: AeroCool GateWatch multi-function controller
• OLD HSF: Cooler Master Jet series

Here is the sensor placement for measuring CPU temperature.

The sensor we will monitor is the one on the right; the second one is for DRAM, and its readings will not be used in this project.

When fired up, there was a little kink to be worked out right away. The cheaply made wire coming from the 120mm fan broke off and the fan stopped spinning.

After numerous attempts to crimp it back on and slide it in the tiny connector, we decided to solder it on and omit the troublesome 4-pin connection on the PCI plate. The wire coming from the fan was so thin that it was a shaky solder connection as well. It was a 26-gauge wire soldered to 18-gauge wire used in the power cables.

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