Thermaltake Bigwater WAKÜ

Preface:

Thermaltake is a firm well known for their new and innovative products. Nearly every month there are new products. As you surely know there are a lot of fanless power supplies, but till now only one real fanless CPU cooler.

The newest All-in-One liquid cooling system from Thermaltake is called BigWater.

The Thermaltake Big Water compines a big Heatsink, a 120mm fan and a silent 12V pump. You might say there are quite a few All-in-One solutions on the market right now, but Thermaltake claims to have optimized the components in order to make them adequate for bigger and more powerful systems.

The package Includes:

The Thermaltake BitWater installation set comes in nice box and includes all necessary parts for installation.

The Big Water system works with nearly every CPU such as, Intel LGA775, Intel P4 478, AMD K7, AMD K8 and AMD Sempron.

Appart from the mounting parts the set consists of:

• A big heatsink (Radiator)
• A 120mm fan
• A copper CPU heatsink with an acrylic upper part
• A 12 V water pump
• 150cm green UV active flexible tube
• 500ccm UV active coolant
• fan controller
• installation manual in English

Radiator:

The Radiator is compact and has a lot of fins for heat dissipation. It can be mounted as you wish on the outside or inside and uses a adjustable 120mm fan. The fan controller starts at 1300U/min with 17 dB till 2400 U/min with 21 dB. You can adjust the fan with a potentiometer which is mounted on a slot bracket.

At lowest fan speed the cooling amount was more than sufficient and the system relatively quiet.

The construction of the Radiator is well designed. On the backside there are mounting holes for 80mm, 92mm and 120mm, so the Radiator can be mounted on nearly every tower without the need to drill holes. Furthermore it would be possible to mount a fan on this side, but this is really not necessary.

Reservoir

The reservoir was designed to ease up the filling of the system, but if you want you can add the reservoir permanently to the system.

Filling is easy. Simply screw off the silver cap and fill in the coolant.

Water Pump

The pump is compact as well. While in use one can hear a humming tone, but not too loud.

Test System and add ons

The system was tested in an open laying mainbord. This arrangement eased up the test considerable. The testing conditions shouldn’t interfere with the performance because the heat is dissipated at the external radiator.

The testing system was equipped with an fan cooled VGA and the new semi fanless power supply under Win 2000.

CPU cooler

The CPU cooler consists of a highly polished copper plate and an acrylic upper part which is luminated by a LED. The machining is top quality.

Installation

Thermaltake has taken care that the installation is easy. Normally liquid cooling systems require a complex installation procedure, but with this system there is no need to drill, to saw…

No need to reconstruct your tower for the radiator, fan or pump. Cut the flexible tubes to the needed length, mount the CPU cooler and fill in the coolant.

The CPU cooler could be mounted easily in our system, but therefore the mainboard had to be removed.

Hobbyists should decouple the water pump with foam.

Notes

We assembled 3 liquid cooling systems and the XICE set was the most silent but as well the warmest and most expensive system. If you need cooling power the Thermaltake BigWater is the clear winner.

Fazit:

The Thermaltake BigWater is a very powerful liquid cooling system with a very good price. The cooling power is equal to bigger or more expensive liquid cooling systems. Even with the lowest fan speed it is silent at about 17dB. At normal fan speed the systems should only be used by overclockers. UV active effects and the LED are fine for modding. The cost/performance ratio as well as the extra equipment and the quality are very good.
 

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