Performance

The system being used to test the heatsink is as follows:
Ambient temperature was kept to 22º Celsius (+/- 1 degree) and was measured by a standard mercury thermometer. Chipset temperature was measured with a Craftsman non-contact infrared thermometer. All idle temperatures were recorded after 30 minutes of resting at the desktop, and load temperatures were taken after 30 minutes of Orthos StressPrime. The rest of the water loop consists of the following components:



Here you can see the obvious improvement of watercooling the chipset block over using plain air cooling. Watercooling is much more effective, beating air cooling by 9 to 19°C.


On a side note, adding the Danger Den MPC-975X chipset waterblock to the water loop surprisingly resulted in no CPU temperature change. Perhaps this is due to the superior flow design of these two waterblocks or the heat output of the chipset is too low to make any measureable difference.