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Installation and Testing:

Installation was very easy with the included thumbscrews, all companies should include them wherever they can, it just makes life so much easier.

Well here it is installed in my system in the various colors:

And here's a few close up shots of the Iceberg all lit up and off.

Yep, it look pretty cool doesn't it, but let's see how well it handles under load. The first thing I have to say is that with the fans on low it is silent, but if you turn the fans to max it is annoyingly loud, keeping them in middle is about the sweet spot, you can hear them but not overly so.

Well Ok, my test system is:

Asus P5wd2-e Premium motherboard

Intel P4 Cedar Mill (3.0Ghz) @4Ghz

Coolermaster Hyper TX CPU Cooler

1 gig of Corsair XMS2Pro PC-8500

Power Color X1300

Memorex dvd/r/dl

Maxtor 40gig HDD

2 120mm fans

The Apevia Iceberg has been in my system for a little over two weeks now and it has given me no problems, I'm happy to report.

Now for testing, since this is a CPU with HyperThreading I can run 2 instances of Prime95 torture test, one on each core to really stress it out. I let it run for about 30 minutes, and recorded the voltages of the 12v and 5v lines at 5 minutes intervals with my trusty multimeter. Remember this is an overclocked and overvoltaged CPU as well here.

First up we have idle voltages:

12v = 12.21v

5v = 5.12v

Load with Prime95 x2:

12v = 12.09v - 12.10v

5v = 5.12v