All test results were performed in an open air environment (Tech Station) with an ambient temperature of 72° Fahrenheit (22c). For the purpose of this review we will compare the Thermaltake Jing with the Thermaltake Frio, and the stock Intel cooler with a copper base. This should give the potential buyer a good idea of the cooling the Jing provides compared to Thermaltake’s best performing cooler and a stock Intel fan setup. Innovation Cooling Diamond (ICD7) thermal paste was used on all three coolers, our favorite compound. We will attempt a solid 1 GHz overclock from the stock 3.06 GHz speed of the i3 540. Idle temps were recorded after 30 minutes, and load temps were recorded after a 20 pass run of LinX stress test. Each test was run using a dual fan configuration on the Thermaltake coolers. The Frio and stock Intel coolers were run at maximum fan speed while the Jing testing includes fans speeds at minimum and maximum, 800 rpm and 1300 rpm respectively. We used RealTemp 3.40 to monitor the temperatures, and the highest reading from all cores was used for the results.
The following components were used in the test bed:
- Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H
- G.Skill 2X2 Gb Trident DDR3-2000
- PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt PSU
- Intel i3 540 CPU
- WD 500 Gb Sata HDD
- Lite-On Sata DVDRW
The Thermaltake Jing is designed to be a quiet CPU cooling solution and with that undoubtedly will come a sacrifice in cooling results when compared to high end coolers. We do not believe that Thermaltake intended for the Jing cooler to be an extreme overclocking cooler, that is not the market it is intended for. However, being an overclocking enthusiast review site, we will overclock anyway and see what the Jing can do!
First up is the testing at stock 3.06 Ghz and a voltage of 1.137. No big surprise here, the Jing performed admirably and shows quite an improvement over the stock Intel cooler under load testing. As expected the Thermaltake Frio was the best of the bunch though.
Next we ramped up the CPU speed to 3.5 Ghz using a vcore of 1.20v. As you will see throughout the testing the trend continues of a great improvement over the stock Intel cooler, but falling short of the Frio results.
As we moved on to a 3.8 Ghz overclock and a voltage of 1.22 the order of performance stays the same but you really begin to see the advantage of the Jing over stock cooling. The Frio is still the best of the bunch, but it is designed for overclocking and has much more powerful fans than the Jing. The stock Intel cooler has just about reached it’s maximum effectiveness at this point.
Finally the 4.07 results at a vcore of 1.23v ends the testing of the Intel cooler as it quickly reached 80c, at which point we stopped testing so as not to damage the CPU. The Jing still held the temperatures well within specs at both fan speeds. Even though advertised as a silent cooling solution, as you can see a good deal of overclocking is still achievable with the Thermaltake Jing.
So, there you have it, a solid 1 Ghz overclock with the Jing performing quite well actually. Is the Jing going to break records for overclocking potential? Certainly not, but that is not what it is intended for either. Good overclocks with silent operation is the Jing’s claim to fame here, and to that end it does what it is advertised to do.
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