Performance

Our performance testing for the Seidon 240M wasn’t any different than our normal heatsink testing. We put the kit under a load using prime95 for an hour and see how it performs. We also compare it on idle performance and then the subjective noise test as well. Noise testing is always interesting with water cooling because there is the added variable of the pump’s noise output as well.

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Before putting it under load we ran our test bench with no load on it for an hour and averaged out our temperatures. The Seidon 240M came in higher than our other heatsinks/water cooling results but this isn’t a big deal as they are only idle numbers. After being under load for an hour we averaged out our numbers again and had an impressive 57.5 degree’s. This still didn’t outperform our Notcua results, but was considerably better than the Intel water cooling kit. The extra length on the radiator helps with more surface area than the Intel even though the Intel’s radiator is a little thicker.

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As for noise, the Seidon 240M was noticeable right at our first bootup. We had a hum and slight rattle that was especially noticeable on our open air testbench. As it turns out the pump was the source noise, something that we have seen before on other water cooling kits. This time around it was more noticeable than other kits that we have tested though. The noise output between at full load and idle wasn’t noticeably different. It’s really disappointing that the pump was noisy because the fans did a great job of keeping everything quiet.

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