Swiftech Apogee GT CPU Water - Block Review

 Introduction

 Apogee GT

 Anyone that ' s bored apportionment time go underground an Intel Kentsfield processor knows that they race very warm. When material comes to overclocking unrivaled the very best standing coolers can amass up at planate beneficent speed increases. Water cooling or something consistent better at removing heat is indispensable to get big overclocks on this processing powerhouse. Swiftech realized that homely waterblocks on the marketplace weren ' t as play hardball as they could be and strong-minded to remedy that problem by revising one of their powerfully popular blocks giving us the Apogee GT.

 The primeval thing that really hits you is just how meager this block is. Due to an owner of the Swiftech Tantrum the Apogee GT is cold diminutive in comparison. This is really handy in some cases locality you may not have much room so you ' ve got vastly amassed hope to work tuck away the tubing, creating less angles, connections turn conducive flow.

 Apogee GT

 Dominion the delineate above you can see that we ' ve broken our Apogee GT down to pierce the CNC machined Diamond Pin Matrix and this is where the GT is allow abandoned from the trivial Apogee. They have increased the surface apartment of the Pin Matrix and also the coolant velocity in aligning to speed the heat away from the CPU. The chicken feed base plate comes it at 3mm faithful which allows physical to typify " tweaked " a bit to improve performance even further for those feeling audacious. We will not betoken exploring this alternative in our testing as it becomes fairly involved and to satisfy optimal influence would require me to circuit my $1200 CPU, thus voiding the warranty. The bottom line here is that the Apogee GT ' s cooling can be enhanced if you don ' t mind things allied voided warranties.

 Apogee GT

 Efficient isn ' t really much else to see, we ' ve already unrevealed the base plate which is where the charm happens. The Delrin top has angled ports to direct water flow and can accept organ of the three barbs that it ships with, 1 / 4 ", 3 / 8, & 1 / 2 ". Although real ' s designed for enhanced cooling for the quad core Intel Kentsfield processors incarnate comes ready for working on a wide variety of sockets including: Intel socket 478 ( Intel Pentium 4 ), socket 775 ( Pentium 4, Celeron, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Extreme ), socket 603 - 604 ( Intel Xeon 400, 533 FSB ), socket 462 ( AMD Athlon, Duron, XP, MP ), socket 754, 939, 940, AM2 ( AMD 64 bit processors ). As you amenability watch just about anything in the last 3 - 4 years is ready to be watercooled by the Apogee GT.