Test System
- Intel 975BTX
- Intel Pentium 4 3.7EE
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz memory
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs 10K RPM RAID 0
- ATI X800XT
- ASUS 16x DVD-ROM
At normal operating specs and in an un-overclocked state the system worked fine and kept the temps below the 50 Celsius mark, which is about the average for many of the other systems we have tested in this price range. That said lets move on to where any person using a liquid system usually ends up, the overclocker's arena.
In most cases when it comes to cooling, many users find air coolers just plain insufficient for removing the amounts of heat that their processors can put out. For me, hitting the 4GHz mark on any Intel processor has been a feat that's needed liquid cooling to achieve. Heck, not even just any liquid cooling - I've always needed top end liquid cooling to keep the chip cold and stable at such high speeds - as it was back in the days that I used to run and gun a P4 2.0A at 2.66GHz too. In this example, I've managed to take a chip that could probably melt its stock fan (a 3.73EE) and push it to 4.0GHz. While this may not seem to be much in comparison to it's stock frequency, it still broods confidence that Evercool's solution was capable of holding down such a heat load. With the ability to put away that much heat, I had enough confidence after a little while, that I was ready to get it installed on a videocard too. That story, though, is one to be told in the conclusion... or beyond.
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