Thermaltake has just recently released a VGA water-cooler called the TMG ND4 which is designed to complement their latest water-cooling kit. After recently reviewing the Thermaltake BigWater 760i we were pleasantly surprised by the quality and performance of this water-cooling kit. Therefore we decided to test it even further by incorporating a new VGA cooler designed to work with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX.
Recently we reviewed the upcoming BigWater 760i liquid cooling system from Thermaltake. This was the first water-cooled product we had touched carrying the Thermaltake branding since early 2005, as early versions of the BigWater had us running for the hills. After 2 years we were still scared of the BigWater and feared the destruction it could bring to our high-end gaming systems. Nevertheless after being given the chance to revisit the BigWater a little over 2 years later, we were curious to see if things had improved and indeed they had!
There were two big problems with the original Thermaltake BigWater kits and I am going to be completely honest here. First of all build quality was terrible and the performance was just as bad, these kits were notorious for leaking and if they didn’t destroy something that way they would self-destruct, I cannot recall how many pumps we managed to go through. Anyway, thankfully those days appear to be behind us, as the BigWater 760i was a pleasure to work with and we have now had the kit running none stop for a little over 2 months. Of course the kit has a long way to go before proving its reliability, but so far so good.
Today we are going back to revisit the BigWater 760i with a little modification to the kit. Now that we are much more comfortable with this kit we have decided to add in a VGA block on our GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card. Thermaltake has a wide range of VGA coolers on offer including air and water cooled solutions. This review will focus on the TMG ND4 which is designed exclusively for the GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards.
