5-Way Radiator Round-Up

There we have it, our previews from each of the five PC water-cooling radiators. Once again, the contenders in our round-up is the Danger Den Dual Heater Core, Hardware Labs Ice Xtreme I, Hardware Labs Ice Xtreme II, CoolingWorks CoolRad 12T, and Thermaltake 12cm Big Water. Like we had stated previously in this article, what you are viewing today is only part one of this article but in our second part we will have all of our results we had attained during the testing process as well as our testing methodology and overall performance of these radiators using a custom water cooling setup on an DFI + Athlon 64 system. Once again, we would like to thank Danger Den, CrazyPC, and Thermaltake who have provided these radiator samples for testing. We would also like to make another shout-out to 3DCOOL who has provided a air heatsink fan for comparison values during the testing as well as the support they have provided through the years as a long time friend to Phoronix. Look for part 2 of our 5-way radiator round-up coming later this week.