Thermaltake
Tide Water All in One VGA Liquid Cooling Module Review
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Review By Clay Angelly - March 21, 2006
INTRODUCTION
Water cooling has come a long way in the past few
years. With Intel's recent innovation it could become more maintenance free and
mainstream than ever before. In that same vein of relative maintenance-free
liquid cooling, Thermaltake brings us the Tide Water All in One VGA Liquid
Cooling Module. My first reaction to this was "neat, but probably too good to be
true". Was my hunch correct? Let's find out.
The Thermaltake Tide Water All in One VGA Liquid
Cooling Module (I think we have a new winner in the category for Longest Product
Name) will make a believer out of you on all counts. Sounds great, but how well
does it cool? Before we get to that let's take a closer look at the Tide Water.
Thermaltake Tide Water
FEATURES
Brazing copper Waterblock
Apply to nVIDIA and ATi GPU
All copper designed Radiator
Adjustable Fan (1700 , 3000 RPM /17 , 19dBA)
Black Powerful 12 V Tiny Pump
10,000 hours of maintenance free from liquid refilling
SPECIFICATIONS
Model
P/N:CL-W0052
Intelligent Design
Tiny Liquid Cooling Module for VGA
VGA Waterblock
8mm thickness
Applies to nVIDIA and ATi GPU
Support up to 120 W for GPU
Brazing copper Waterblock
Radiator
Pure copper designed
Radiator with copper tube
Cooling System
Fan speed:1700,3000 RPM
Noise level:17,19 dB
Fan speed controller included
Tiny Pump
DC 12V
45(L) x 38(W) x 25(H) mm
Pump speed:72L/hr,3400 RPM
Life expency:40,000 hours
Maintenance free for liquid refilling
10,000 hours
Coolant
Anti-freeze
Anti-rusting
Installation
Plug into dual PCI slot
TESTING CONFIGURATION
Lian Li PC-71 Full Tower
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Socket 939 (Toledo)
MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Motherboard
Corsair XMS Twinx 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3500LLPRO
SilverStone Zeus ST65ZF 650W Power Supply nVIDIA SLI Certified
