Installation
We mounted the CPU waterblock on to a Gigabyte Z790 AROUS Pro X motherboard. Everything was went as planned and we didn’t enounter any issues whatsoever.
You can mount the 360 radiator in whatever configuration you like. On the top or in the front. In our case, we we mounted the radiator on the top with the tubing towards the back of the case.
The only thing you need to take care with, is the fan installation. Since the 3 fans can be daisy-chained, the length of the integrated cable may be a little too short. Hence, Thermaltake includes both the 3-pin ARGB and the 4-pin PWM fan extension cables.
Although you can’t physically rotate the LCD displaty on the CPU waterblock, you can rotate the display via the TT RGB Sync software which you can download from their website.
Test setup and Testing Methodology
The system used for testing is listed in the table below. Ambient temperatures were kept at 24 degrees Celsius +/- 1 degree. We used the included thermal paste, which I think is more than adequate. The fan speed was set to default. The idle temperatures were recorded after 10 minutes of idle and max temperatures were recorded after a 5 minute torture test using Adia 64 CPU System Stability Test and recording the Cores values and taking the average.
| CPU | Intel Core i9-14900K |
| Cooling | Thermaltake TH360 V2 Ultra ARGB Sync AIO Liquid Cooler |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z790 AROUS Pro X |
| Cooling Fans | Thermaltake CT120 ARGB fans (included) |
| Ram | Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit |
| SSD | Lexar NM800 Pro 2TB |
| PSU | Gigabyte UD850GM Gold 850W |
| OS | Windows 11 |
Idle Temps
During our tests we used the latest Intel Core i9-14900K processor which has a default TDP of 125W. With no workload on the CPU … idle temps were quite low at only 34 degrees Celsius. Nice!
Load Temps
At 100% CPU load, the temperatures reached a high of between of 99-101 degrees Celsius. It is on the high side, but that’s expected with a Turbo Boost TDP of 253W.
We highly recommend you use a 360 AIO cooler for Intel’s latest 14th Gen and previous 13th Gen processors.
Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
