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THERMALTAKE WATER 3.0 RIING RGB 240 CPU COOLER
AIDA64 EXTREME
In order to test our CPU cooler, we’ll be running a CPU stress test and monitoring our temperatures using AIDA64, which is a great utility for benchmarking, testing the stability of, and monitoring your system.
COOLING PERFORMANCE
To test our cooler, we ran AIDA64’s ‘System Stability Test’ for one hour and recorded the highest temperature reached on any core. We did so at both the stock core frequency of our Intel Core i5 6600K, as well as overclocked to 4.2GHz, and 4.6GHz.
During all tests our ambient temperature was approximately 21C while the cooler’s intake temperature was a slightly warmer 28C.
Thermal take’s Water 3.0 does an excellent job of keeping the CPU cool, across all clock speeds. The increase in temperature from stock speed to 4.2GHz is only 5.1C, and at our max overclock it is only 56C! Very cool! (no pun intended).
THERMALTAKE TOUGHPOWER DPS G 850W 80 PLUS PLATINUM PSU
The best way we could see fit to show how this power supply is beneficial to our testing system is to show you exactly how we will be using, other than the obvious fact of powering our Z170 test bench. We ran our usual GPU test bench of Furmark, 3DMark Firestrike, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, GTA V, Witcher 3 and a new addition, Battlefield 4. During this time we recorded the power consumed, and compared this to when the system is idle.
Our first graph shows the increased wattage used while testing the GPU. We can see that Firestrike was the lowest of the increases at 152W and Tomb Raider was at the other end of the spectrum at 199.5W.
The second graph shows the increased amperage while going through our GPU test suite. In this case Crysis 3 was lowest at an increase of 14.1A, where as Tomb Raider once again is the highest at 16.2A.