There is a notable trend in the rigid three-point water models where TIP3P-ST has the highest surface tension, temperature of maximum density and heat of vaporization, the most highly structured O-O RDF, and the lowest self-diffusion coefficient. All of these properties correspond to stronger cohesion and a highly structured hydrogen-bonding network. TIP3P on the other hand has the lowest surface tension, temperature of maximum density and heat of vaporization, the least structured O-O RDF, and the highest self-diffusion coefficient, whereas TIP3P-FB is intermediate between TIP3P-ST and TIP3P for all of these properties. The physically motivated correspondence between all of these properties, coupled with the observation that none of the rigid three-point models can reproduce all of the experimental properties equally accurately across the whole temperature range, reveals a potential limitation of the functional form of rigid three-point rigid water models. Despite these limitations, the high accuracy of TIP3P-FB for all tested thermodynamic, structural and kinetic properties except for the temperature dependence of the density (Table ) indicates that it is suitable for simulating biomolecular systems near ambient conditions, especially in applications that benefit from the lower computational cost of three-point models.