Cryo Hydro Nemesis SE system review

The Cryo system is supplied with serious water cooling installed but the overclocking and voltage increases are high so it will be interesting to see how it copes under real world stress testing.

To measure temperatures we started the system and let it idle for 30 minutes … this was in an air conditioned controlled room at a maintained 25c. To test load temperatures we scripted a 30 minute run of Crysis Warhead at maximum enthusiast settings. CPU results were recorded with Cinebench R11.5.

Prime95 rose CPU temperatures an extra 2-3c but we don't really rate this is an everyday realistic result, people will render on the machine, but if you spend all day looping Prime95 then you have some serious issues. Same situation for Furmark, its not a realistic real world test which is why we try to use game engines.

We also attached diodes to the insides of the chassis at the front just above the Hard Drive (1) and at the rear, just above the PSU (2).

From the results we can ascertain that CPU temperatures never hit 80c, even with the CPU overvolted at 4.5ghz. It is worth noting that the CPU temperatures take very little time to revert to idle figures, in a manner of seconds .. one of the many benefits of water cooling.

Interestingly we can also note that the ambient heat inside the chassis is a few degrees higher at the rear, above the PSU when compared with the front of the case. This is obviously part due to the graphics cards radiating heat.

A very strong set of results all round and we particularly were impressed with the HD5870 cooling prowess.

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