CPU Cooling: Swiftech Liquid Cooling Components

Our cooling system begins with Swiftech's H20-120 Compact kit, which includes a single 120 mm fan radiator with integrated reservoir, CPU water block with integrated pump, hardware, hoses, and a bottle of concentrated coolant additive (antifreeze).

While the kit comes preconfigured for use with LGA775 processors, AMD users will notice that its water block includes a second base for use with Socket F, 754, 939, 940, and AM2 motherboards.

Swiftech polishes its Apogee Drive 350 copper baseplate to a mirror finish. A tube of the kit's included thermal compound shows off the reflective surface.

The H20-120 was selected as the basis for our cooling configuration for two reasons. First, its integrated components, namely the Apogee Drive with water block and combination radiator/reservoir would simplify installation to reduce crowding and eliminate the need to drill holes. Second, the Apogee Drive's high-flow pump and high-dissipation base plate would allow us to build on the system without fear of exceeding its performance limits.

Of course we wouldn't settle for a single 120 mm fan radiator on a system that's designed for overclocking. Swiftech also supplied a 2 x 120 mm fan radiator with mounting hardware, two 3/8" hose barbs, four plastic hose clamps, and two 3/8" Neoprene tubing packs.

We'd also need a good way to attach the larger radiator. Fortunately, the Temjin TJ09 is designed around the concept of mounting this type of radiator where the two top-panel fans are located, and Silverstone recently released a bracket to ease this task.

Constructed of heavy gauge chrome plated steel, Silverstone's SST-RADSUPPORT09 is available from a few web stores for around $15.

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  1. 1 – Getting Ahead Of The Curve
  2. 2 – Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650
  3. 3 – Graphics Cards: Two Gigabyte GeForce 8800GTX In SLI
  4. 4 – Hard Drives: Two Western Digital Caviar WD7500AAKS
  5. 5 – Case: Silverstone Temjin TJ09-BW
  6. 6 – CPU Cooling: Swiftech Liquid Cooling Components
  7. 7 – Power Supply: Cooler Master RS-850-EMBA
  8. 8 – Component Installation
  9. 9 – Component Installation, Continued
  10. 10 – Test System Configuration
  11. 11 – Benchmark Results
  12. 12 – Audio
  13. 13 – Applications
  14. 14 – Synthetics
  15. 15 – Conclusion
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