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Thermaltake's Water 2.0 Performer Self-Contained Cooling System Stops By The Lab - The Box And Goodies

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Sean Kalinich
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Water cooling for high-performance cooling has been around for a very long time. It started (as many things do) with super computers and the need to maintain a specific temperature envelope. From there advanced cooling broke into the consumer market (over the course of a few years), in the form of heatsinks with larger fans and even TEC (Thermoelectric coolers) cooling. However, for the most part water was still avoided due to the potential for leakage and damage to components. However all of that changed very quickly once the 1GHz barrier was broken. Companies seemed to come out of the woodwork with pieces and parts for water cooling. Radiators, water blocks, tubing fans, pumps, you name it you could but it. Now that we are well into the 3-4GHz range for stock CPUs the water cooling industry is very strong with components in multiple places in the market. The concept of the self-contained cooling system has also caught on with products produced by multiple companies. Today we will be taking a look at one from Thermaltake called the Water 2.0 Performer. This $63 cooling system is supposed to be able to keep things cool for both AMD and Intel CPUs including the LGA 2011 Core i7. Let’s see how it does.

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The Box and Goodies -
The box that the Water 2.0 Performer comes in is a fairly sizable box. Of course it has to be to make sure everything fits inside it. On the “front” of the box is a nice picture of the self-contained unit with a splash of blue water going across it (in keeping with the name of the product. You also will see that Thermaltake is making sure that you know it fully supports Intel’s LGA 2011 CPUs.  A short listing of features also graces the front of the box.
box01The back of the box shows you the Water 2.0 Performer installed on an Asus Maximus III Formula (an older board, but still a very good one). You also get a more detailed listing of important features like the High-performance Copper base plate, Low Evaporation tube and more. Thermaltake has also thrown in some additional pictures of the Water 2.0 Performer just for good measure.

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Along the side are the complete specifications for the Performer which is actually a very nice thing to have when you are comparing one product with another.

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Inside the box (along with the actual Water 2.0 Performer) you will find everything you need to use this with your Intel or AMD based motherboard. You have back plates for the both Intel and AMD along with hold-down clamps a 4-pin fan cable splitter, two fans and a lot more.
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