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Page 5 of 6 Installation 
For the installation, it was very simple although it does not comes with the installation manual. Just apply a thin layer of the thermal paste on the GPU core, then place the water block on top of the GPU core. If you need more info about the installation, you can check at here. 
After that, place the back plate on the back of the VGA card and tighten it with the screws and nuts that available in the mounting kit. Testing and Performance Test System Performance Danger Den Maze 4 GPU Water Block | Condition | Stock Cooler | Danger Den Chrome Version Maze4 GPU Water Block | | Idle | 
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| I used the WaterChill water cooling kit for the performance testing of this Chrome Version of MAZE4 GPU water block. During the testing, the room temperature was around 27 Celsius. As you can see, the cooling performance is definitely visible. I had tested the Chrome Version MAZE4 GPU water block at the idle and loading temperatures. There's a 14 Celsius drop during the idle compared with the stock cooler and it pulled down the temperature to 42 Celsius during idles. While the testing of the loading temperature, I was running 3DMark 05, the full loading temperature was only at 53 Celsius which is much lower compared to the stock cooler which is at 72 Celsius. | | Stock Cooler (Default) | Stock Cooler (Overclock) | Danger Den Chrome Version Maze4 GPU Water Block(Overclock) | | Core | 450 MHz | 587 MHz | 612 MHz | | Memory | 1000 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1210 MHz | As for the overclocking result, I have added some copper BGA RAM sinks for the RAM cooling for the overclocking test. The Chrome Version MAZE4 GPU water block is able to overclock higher compare to overclock with the stock cooler, there is an increment of 25 MHz for the core and 10 MHz for the memory.
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