Cooling

Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer Review

 

Dissection!

Naturally I can’t leave this thing in one piece, if I touch it it must be shreaded!

Don’t do this if you value your warranty, nor if you value the functionality of the cooler, nor if you value the future of your computer. Plus, yours will look the same as mine anyway.

Without further ado, the heat transfer plate comes off!

waterPerf-dissection-1baseplate_off

You can see the pump intake at the top there, water flows into the block through the bottom.

 

The liquid itself is water and some flavor of glycol plus a bittering agent. It tastes terrible. Don’t drink it. The plate itself looks like this:

waterPerf-dissection-2-baseplate1

 

waterPerf-dissection-2-baseplate2

 

Removing the top cover shows us the motor and electronics package:

waterPerf-dissection-3-pumpElectronics

 

Next out are the next two plates down:

waterPerf-dissection-4-middlePlates

 

Below them we’re starting to run out of pump:

waterPerf-dissection-5-impellorInPump

 

Then there’s the impeller itself:

waterPerf-dissection-6-impellor

 

The hoses go into hosebarbs that are allowed to rotate in the housing, they’re each sealed with two o-rings:

waterPerf-dissection-7-hosebarb

 

Here’s the opening the hosebarb goes into:

waterPerf-dissection-8-hosemount

Overall things look quite well designed, the o-rings are all properly sized, attention has been paid to how the water will flow through the block, it’s all good!

 

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