Water-based Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
To verify that the water block works as advertised, the video card was run through our standard benchmark suite at both stock and overclocked speeds. The results are presented for at both speeds for performance comparison purposes. The benchmark tests used should give you a good understanding of the water block's capabilities hwile using the card for gaming so that you, the reader, can make a more informed purchasing decision.
Test System Setup |
|
CPU |
Intel Core i7-4770K (3.5GHz, 35 x 100MHz Base Clock) |
Motherboards |
MSI Z87 MPOWER |
Memory |
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 modules (1600MHz, 9-10-9-27-1T) |
Hard Drive |
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA III HD |
Sound Card |
On board sound |
Video Card |
ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB graphics card |
Cooling |
CPU: Corsair Hydro Series™ H100i Extreme Performance CPU Cooler Video card: Koolance EXT-440CU Liquid Cooling System |
Video Drivers |
NVIDIA 335.23 |
Power Supply |
Corsair HX 750 |
Operating System |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 |
Coolant |
Koolance LIQ-702 High Performance Liquid Coolant |
Test Setup Explanation
The 64-bit Windows 7 based test bench used for testing includes an Intel Core i7-4770K CPU, 16GB of DDR3-1866 memory, an ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB graphics card, a Corsair Hydro Series™ H100i CPU cooler for the CPU, a Koolance EXT-440CU liquid cooling system for the graphics card, and a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD drive. Using the selected components gives us the ability to demonstrate the integrated water block's capabilities without interference from components or CPU-related heat concerns. The Koolance EXT-440CU thermally isolates the Poseidon GTX 780 card from the rest of the system, allowing us to measure the impact of liquid cooing the card without impact from the CPU cooling loop. For all liquid-cooled test runs, the Koolance EXT-440CU unit was configured to run with fan speed set to Auto and pump speed set to 5.
Benchmark Tests used for evaluation:
- BioShock: Infinite Benchmark
- Batman: Arkham Origins Benchmark
- Metro: Last Light Benchmark
- Grid 2 Benchmark
- Unigine Heaven v4.0
- FutureMark 3DMark
- Geeks3D FurMark v1.10.2
What about this ?
Nvidia
What about this ?
Nvidia debuted the GeForce GTX Titan Z, a heavy metal graphics card capable of 8 TeraFLOPS of compute performance.
Not the best clocker, those
Not the best clocker, those liquid results can be done at stock voltage on my EVGA SC.
Release date? Price?
Release date? Price?
anyone knows of what material
anyone knows of what material is the waterchannel made of? Copper or AL ?!
Just received mine in the
Just received mine in the mail. Overclocked to 1200 with 1187 for voltage. Thing is a beast, with my 2500k at 5.01GHz I scored 9300 on Fire Strike 3DMark. I believe the waterchannel is made of AL btw