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GlobalWin Silent Stream Water Cooling Kit (cont.)Installation: The package comes pre-filled with water and is sealed; therefore, you don’t have to open or fill anything. All you have to do to install the Quick way, is mount the CPU cooler onto the stock Intel heatsink retention harness. Then mount the radiator and the fan in a place that an 80mm fan would fit. To get power to it, hook up the pump, located on the CPU cooler, to the motherboard 3 pin ATX power connector. Finally, hook up the fan's 3 pin connector to the motherboard or to the supplied 4 to 3 pin converter.
You just installed a water cooling kit. It’s that simple, really. The little thing sticking up from the CPU cooler is the reservoir and houses a green led that lights up when the system is on. I’m not much of a fan of windows and lights in a computer, as seen by my lack of a window and lights except for the LED in the cooler. Even though, I must admit that GlobalWin's Silent Stream looks really good. The Silent Stream would complement anyone's window computer case.
Testing: Well enough about the system and benefits, how about we get to the test numbers? Each of tests will run 2 times, one at the stock Intel Pentium 4's 2.6 GHz and again at an over clocked 3.414 GHz. The max temperature obtained during these testing periods will recorded. The max load will be obtained with a 5 hour period of non-stop Halo and the idle will be achieved with 5 hours of the computer sitting and doing nothing. The test setup is as follows. Abit IC7, P4 2.6C, 1024 PC3200 RAM, ATI 9700 pro. The case will be closed and the system fans will consist of exhaust fan. One might wonder why I mention the video card, RAM, and system fans. I like you to have a complete idea of what will be in use generating heat inside the case and what will be used to dissipate the heat.
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