Q6600 Temperature Testing


Idle Temperatures


This where the truth of the coolers' real overclocking potential starts to come out. While its numbers are decent they are certainly not in the same category as the other high end coolers. The best thing you can say about these idle temperatures is that they are better than the OEM cooler.


Average Load Temperatures


Even at stock speeds this cooler is simply overwhelmed by the quad's thermal load; heck, even the Intel Stock cooler is better than this guy when it comes to cooling potential. However, this only tells half the story as the Triton 77 is whisper quiet even when giving its all as it was clearly doing. If this CPU cooling solution had a bigger fan or a higher CFM fan it would have probably performed much better, but it would have to sacrifice a lot of its low noise characteristics to do it. It should also be noted that these results were carried through almost verbatim after multiple mounts.