Exos Koolance Review - PERFORMANCE page 4
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Koolance Exos External Liquid Cooling System and CPU-200S Waterblock
PERFORMANCE
Test System:
- Abit IT7
- Pentium IV 2.26B at default and at 2.77GHZ with 1.63-1.64 volts
- 512MB GeIL PC3500
- Maxtor ATA133 7,200rpm 80GB Hard Drive
- LeadTek GeForce4 Ti4400
- Enermax 435 watt Power Supply
- Swiftech MCX4000 with a 80mm Thermaltake Smart Fan set to 100%
- Exos in Mode 1
The temperatures were recorded from the Pentium IV thermal diode and the Koolance's digital display. To get the numbers from the thermal diode Hardware Doctor was used. To get load temperatures SETI@Home was running in the background and Unreal Tournament 2003 was looping in windowed mode to make sure the CPU was properly stressed. The programs ran for a half an hour before temperatures were recorded.
As a reminder, Exos Display means the digital display on the Exos that approximates the water temperature.
At the default settings we see a significant improvement with the Exos system, as one would expect switching from air cooling to water cooling. Because the Exos was an all-in-one type kit I really didn't expect to see these kinds of differences. It is pretty impressive to see what Koolance has done with it.
Here we see much of the same things as the first graph. Overclocking the CPU definitely stressed both systems with both the Swiftech MCX4000 and the Exos increasing significantly. We also see about a 6.5C difference between the Swiftech and the Exos at idle and increases to 11 degrees celsius!
Note: Mode 3 gives improved performance but significantly increases the noise level. Defeating one of the reasons you might choose to use water cooling.
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