Installation
The installation of the CPU waterblock was surprisingly simple on the AM5 socket. It uses the sample mounting clips/brackets as the previous AM4 socket. Due to the size of the 360 radiator, you’ll need to make sure your case is suitable for a radiator of this size.
We used the Thermaltake Tower 500 … there’s plenty of room, so no issues here. We also replaced the included TOUGHFAN 12 Turbo fans with Thermaltake’s SWAFAN 12 RGB fans, which gives me a pull-push configration with reverse airflow. See above photos … this allows me to mount the fans on the other side of the radiator, giving me a full uninterupted view of the RGB fans 😀
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 | AMD Ryzen 9 7900X (Raphael) |
| Cooling | Thermaltake Tough Liquid Ultra 360 All-In-One Liquid Cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock X670E Taichi |
| Cooling Fans | Thermaltake SWAFAN 12 RGB Fan (3 Pack) |
| Ram | Thermaltake TOUGHRAM XG RGB DDR5-6000 32GB Memory Kit |
| SSD | ADATA Legend 840 1TB PCIe Gen4x4 M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Thermaltake TOUGHPOWER PF1 ARGB 1050W Power Supply |
| OS | Windows 11 |
Idle Temps
For our tests, we installed the Thermaltake SWAFAN 12 RGB Fans instead of the bundled TOUGHFAN 12 Turbo fans. With no workload on the CPU … idle temps were pretty low at only 38 degrees Celsius. Mind you, these new Ryzen 7000 series processors are known to run fairly hot, not surprisingly with a TDP of 170W!
Load Temps
At 100% CPU load, we managed to get a temperature reading of 87 degrees Celsius, which is pretty amazingly. I do wonder if the included TURBO 12 fans could lower the temperatures even more … it means I won’t be getting any RGB 😛
Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
