Cooling: Thermaltake Aquarius II :: Performance

The Aquarius II was installed and tested on the following system:

• Motherboard: EPoX 8K9A2+
• CPU: AMD Athlon XP1700+ ThoroughbredB
• RAM: 768Mb Crucial PC2100 DDR CAS 2.5
• Power Supply: Enermax EG365P-VE 350w
• Video Card: VisionTek GeForce3 Ti 200
• Case: Antec 1030SX SOHO
• Sound Card: SoundBlaster LIVE! 5.1 Digital
• OS: Windows XP Pro SP1

After applying the correct amount of Arctic Silver III to the CPU and water block bottom, I allowed it to cure for the minimum 72 hours before I started in on my testing. The tests consist of:

• 3DMark 2001 SE (CPU/Memory/Graphics)
• PCMark 2002 (CPU/Memory/Graphics/HDD)
• SiSoft SANDRA Burn-in (CPU/Memory/Graphics/HDD)
• Neverwinter Nights (CPU/Memory/Graphics)
• BurnIn Pro v3.0 (100% CPU load)
• Overclocking (XP1700+ TbredB 1.60v stepped up to XP2600+ 2.11GHz @ 1.75v)

All temperatures are +/- 2° C and the fan speed is +/- 50 RPM. Motherboard Monitor 5.3.0.0 and a CompuNurse thermal probe were used to obtain the temperatures. The thermal probe was attached with the end of the probe stripped and touching the CPU die. MBM5 was used for the fan speeds. Ambient temperature remained a steady 70° F. I allowed the system to return to idle for 20 minutes in between each test. Here now are the scores: