Test Bench
For our tests, we used our recently built Project Ice Stream 2 rig which comprises of a MSI Z170M Mortar motherboard, along with an Intel Core i5-6600K at default clock speed of 3.5GHz, as well as 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-3000 ram in quad channel mode.
We used AIDA64 GPU stress test which produces 100% GPU load to test the graphics card. GPU-Z was used to record the temperatures.
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.5GHz |
| Cooling | XSPC Raystorm Pro CPU water Block |
| Motherboard | MSI Z170M Mortar |
| Ram | 16GB Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-3000 |
| HDD | ADATA XPG SX930 – 240GB |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275W |
| VGA card | HIS Readeon RX 480 Roaring (8GB GDDR5) |
| Watercooling |
All Thermaltake watercooling parts … including Radiators, Pumps, fittings and Riing fans |
| Nvidia Drivers | Version 375.90 WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Temperatures using stock air cooler
Idle Temps
Stock air cooler produced an idle temperature of around 45 degrees Celsius.
Load Temps
While GPU load temperatures hit a high of 89 degrees Celsius!
Temperatures with EK Thermosphere
Idle Temps
Wow! a super low idle temperature of only 30 degrees Celsius. I’m loving it!
Load Temps
Full load of 100% our temperature readings were also very impressive at only 50 degrees Celsius.
