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Raijintek Triton CPU Water Cooler Review

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Testing and Results

Testing Methodology

CPU coolers in this test were tested in a case at its upright position with the case side panel closed. The case used in this test was the Cooler Master Silencio 652S with two Silencio FP-120 fans at the front intake and one Silencio FP-120 at the rear exhaust. These fans were set to 100% and a GTX 780 Ti was left installed in order to create a real-world scenario. Coolers with 240mm radiators were mounted at the top of the case with the fans blowing out of the system. 120mm coolers are mounted in the rear exhaust with two 140mm fans at the top of the case for exhaust. To make things more interesting, I threw in the older Cooler Master V8 (non GTS) high performance heat sink into this test just to see how this older air cooler stacks up with modern liquid coolers. Air coolers were oriented so the hot air blows directly out through the rear exhaust.

All coolers were tested using AIDA64 Engineering Edition with an AMD FX-8350 CPU at 4.6Ghz (1.392v/1.440v) with an ambient room temperature of 20C. The stress test ran for 30 minutes on all coolers. Each cooler ran the test three times and the average of the three tests were recorded. The stock fans that come with most liquid cooling units are sometimes too loud or not adequate enough for the job. To test the cooling capacity of just the liquid cooling devices, two powerful Cougar CF-V12HPB fans were used to replace all of the stock fans to generate another set of results. These fans were plugged directly into the power supply to have them run at 100%. This was done to obtain the most consistent data across all coolers. The same amount of thermal interface material was used for each cooler. IC Diamond was used in this test and was cleaned off using 91% isopropyl when a different CPU cooler was tested. Let’s jump into the testing results.

Raijintek Triton Dual Cougar CF-V12HPB Fans

Test System

  • Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
  • System Memory: 4x4GB 1600MHz DDR3
  • Processor: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz
  • Audio: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
  • Video: MSI GeForce GTX 780 Ti Twin Frozr
  • Disk Drive 1: Crucial MX100 256GB SSD
  • Disk Drive 2: Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD
  • Enclosure: Cooler Master Silencio 652S
  • PSU: Corsair CX750M 750W Modular
  • Monitor: HP 23bw 23″ IPS display
  • Operating System: Windows 8.1 Professional 64-Bit

Results

The Raijintek Triton performed very well against the more expensive Corsair H100i liquid CPU cooling unit. The noise generated from both the Triton 120mm fans and Corsair SP120L fans were loud at maximum speed, but I would not consider this a realistic scenario. Putting on the Cougar fans did lower the noise level to a more comfortable zone. Even if the temperatures were just a little higher compared to the stock fans, the FX-8350 was nowhere close to throttling.

Raijintek Triton CPU Cooler Comparison

The Triton has really impressed me so far with these results. At a more affordable price, it competes well against the more expensive Corsair H100i. With the ability to expand with more radiators, the Triton can easily perform just as well if not better than a custom water cooling system. Also keep in mind, the Triton radiator uses a higher fin density design compared to the Corsair H100i. It may be very likely that the Triton can outperform the H100i when both coolers are in a push and pull configuration, but for now the results are incredible for how much it is worth.


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