Looking for haswell cooler benchmarks

lazykoala

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Googled this and saw a lot of opinions, but no actual benchmarks. Saw a lot of recommendations for noctua DH-14, hyper 212, and a couple different phanteks and thermaltakes. I'm looking to buy one soon because I feel like my CPU runs hotter than norm even at idle 40C - 42C, and from what i have seen idle is usually a couple degrees lower.

I have a corsair 400R case so I have some room to work with, but would prefer something that isn't monstrous. I have 2 intake fans, 2 exhaust fans, and the stock CPU fan so I'm sure I could add a couple more fans as well. I don't plan on doing liquid cooling so I just want to try and get a solid fan setup.
 
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Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme is still in the top ten recommended Intel coolers on Frostytech. Though at #10, h100i is at the #1. Though they don't seem to be reviewing as much as they used to.

Tuniq Tower 120 is huge, it occupies much of the space in a mid tower, see the first iteration pictures in my build log. They also have one nickel plated dark grey with an LED fan. The standard product photo makes it look very black like paint though.

Noctua makes a good fan, but you can improve the looks of the Noctua coolers by replacing them with more normal color high static pressure fans.

Every vendor has their big high dollar coolers, and they are all within a few percent of each other. It is more about mass and air flow since they all pretty...

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40 at idle is about right. Not really found any comprehensive list specifically for Haswell.

DH-14 comes up a lot as a recommendation. I think any tower(rifle) cooler wth a weight above 700 grams and good fans will do fairly well.

I think the Hyper EVO 212 is inadequate for high overclocking on haswell, but a great replacement for the tiny stock cooler.

I've used a Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme and a h80i so far. Tuniq Tower wins by a tiny margin, but with less spikes in temps. 79C with the Tuniq, up to 84C on the h80i. Using AIDA64 as a stress test.

A lot of people use the h100i and report decent temps, but I take a lot of those reports with some skepticism, as they may not be seeing the peak temperatures. With coretemp running while gaming I still do see 80C temp spikes during things like map loads.
 

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Yea most people seem to recommend the h100i or the noctua. Even though I don't care that much about looks, the noctua is pretty ugly but everyone seems to talk really highly about it. I like the look of some of the phanteks and the tuniq you recommended looks pretty good too. Hope someone puts out some benchmarks at some point.
 

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Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme is still in the top ten recommended Intel coolers on Frostytech. Though at #10, h100i is at the #1. Though they don't seem to be reviewing as much as they used to.

Tuniq Tower 120 is huge, it occupies much of the space in a mid tower, see the first iteration pictures in my build log. They also have one nickel plated dark grey with an LED fan. The standard product photo makes it look very black like paint though.

Noctua makes a good fan, but you can improve the looks of the Noctua coolers by replacing them with more normal color high static pressure fans.

Every vendor has their big high dollar coolers, and they are all within a few percent of each other. It is more about mass and air flow since they all pretty much use copper heat pipes and aluminum fin stacks. Just check out the shipping weight or listed mass of the heatsink to get a feel for their cooling capacity. Long as there aren't hidden design flaws that block the air it should be good to go.

I am awaiting a review of Cooler Master's new V8 GTS, looks promising. Sort of a quad rifle with dual fans, also breaks a kilo in weight.
 
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Wow that thing looks pretty awesome, but it looks freakin' massive. If it's too heavy that seems like it could lean downward after a while and maybe negatively affect things.