Installation
We installed the radiator on to the Hyte Y70 (non-touch) chassis, and everything fitted nicely. The Hyte Y70 is a massive case, so fitting the Q60’s ginormous radiator wasn’t an issue. If you have a standard or smaller mid-tower chassis, I would double check to see there’s enough room to fit this massive radiator.
Mounting the CPU waterblock was slightly chanllenging. You first need to push the IPS display to far left (or right) so you access the screw mounts of the CPU/motherboard brackets. Once one side secured, you the same for the other side.
Next you need to plug in one end of the provided USB/Fan/Power combo cable to the radiator (picture no.2), while the other end splits in to 3 connectors … for PCIE 6-pin power, 4-pin PWM fan and USB, which connects to the motherboard.
Once all the cables are connected, you’re ready to go. For good measure, I’ve added 2 velcro straps to the tubes so that they don’t droop too much 😀
Nexus Software
To customize the display, we used Hyte’s Nexus software which you can download from their website. It’s easy to use and setup with a wide range of options and configurations.
Use the Nexus software to monitoring CPU and GPU clock frequencies, utilization, temperatures, fan and pump speeds, as well as setting up your RGB lighting etc.
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 | Hyte THICC Q60 AIO Liquid Cooler |
| Motherboard | Asus Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi |
| Cooling Fans | 2 x Hyte THICC FP12 (pre-installed) |
| Ram | Corsair Dominator Titanium 1st Edition DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit |
| SSD | Lexar NM800 Pro 2TB |
| PSU | Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 (rev 2) Gold 1000W |
| 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 33 degrees Celsius. Cool!
Load Temps
At 100% CPU load, the temperatures reached a high of 88 degrees Celsius with the CPU package at 99 degrees Celsius. These high temperature readings are no surprise to us, as we know the Intel Core i9-14900K runs quite hot, especially with a Turbo Boost TDP of 253W.
In general, we highly recommend you use a 360 AIO cooler for Intel’s latest 14th Gen and previous 13th Gen processors.
But in this case, the Hyte THICC Q60 seems to be doing a great job of cooling the Intel Core i9-14900K processor.
Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
