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The reason I named this thread State of Shock is because that's the way I feel right now, I figure the information is worth sharing with you all so here goes.
Originally I was after a cooler to out perform my Xigmatek S-1283 HDT, the Xiggys drawbacks were the mounting hardware and the rubber isolation fan mounts, which don't last long and replacements are almost impossible to track down. I was getting great cooling performance from the Xiggy, but at a cost of lapping the base and adding an additional cooling fan by mounting the fan on a Zalman fan support bracket.
I replaced the Xiggy with a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ running 2 120mm fans in a push pull configuration, unfortunately the CMH212+ did not out perform or even equally perform as the Xiggy did, so I lapped the CMH212+ base and changed the fans to 110cfm Skythe fans, the results were disappointing, it still couldn't beat the Xiggys performance.
So I decided to jump on a big dog and bought the Noctua NH-D14, I was finally satisfied as it at least performed as well as the Xiggy, out of the box with fresh Artic Silver 5 applied, even got better after the AS5 had cured.
Now to the shock, Crazy PC has closed their doors and offered a closing sale of 50% off everything at the checkout last weekend, so actually just for the heck of it with intentions of using it on another machine I bought a Thermalright 120 Extreme, extra fan bracket, fans, additional bolt through 1156 kit, and a AM3 bolt through kit, it came with a 1366 bolt through kit.
I always wanted to snag one of the 120 extremes but they were so expensive by the time you had everything you needed it was a chunk of money, well everything was 50% off so I jumped in the pool and got one.
I received it Thursday 3/17/11 and inspected it, I was blow away by the manufacturing quality Thermalright had put into this heat sink, so today Friday, I decided to run some tests with the Noctua change the heat sink to the Thermalright and run some of the same tests, just out of curiosity.
I knew the test would not be fair as the Noctua was running fully cured AS5 and the Thermalright would be running fresh AS5, well guys here's the shock, with fresh AS5 the Thermalright 120 extreme load temperatures beat the Noctua by 2c on 1 core and 3c on the other 3 cores, same ambient room temperature, running an overclocked 2500K with a 1.328Vcore.
So the Noctua will be the heat sink cooling another machine and the Thermalright 120 Extreme is staying right where it is, when the AS5 cures out, the performance will additionally improve by about 3c to 5c, so maybe there's some information here that will help you if you're trying to decide on an air cooler.
Originally I was after a cooler to out perform my Xigmatek S-1283 HDT, the Xiggys drawbacks were the mounting hardware and the rubber isolation fan mounts, which don't last long and replacements are almost impossible to track down. I was getting great cooling performance from the Xiggy, but at a cost of lapping the base and adding an additional cooling fan by mounting the fan on a Zalman fan support bracket.
I replaced the Xiggy with a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ running 2 120mm fans in a push pull configuration, unfortunately the CMH212+ did not out perform or even equally perform as the Xiggy did, so I lapped the CMH212+ base and changed the fans to 110cfm Skythe fans, the results were disappointing, it still couldn't beat the Xiggys performance.
So I decided to jump on a big dog and bought the Noctua NH-D14, I was finally satisfied as it at least performed as well as the Xiggy, out of the box with fresh Artic Silver 5 applied, even got better after the AS5 had cured.
Now to the shock, Crazy PC has closed their doors and offered a closing sale of 50% off everything at the checkout last weekend, so actually just for the heck of it with intentions of using it on another machine I bought a Thermalright 120 Extreme, extra fan bracket, fans, additional bolt through 1156 kit, and a AM3 bolt through kit, it came with a 1366 bolt through kit.
I always wanted to snag one of the 120 extremes but they were so expensive by the time you had everything you needed it was a chunk of money, well everything was 50% off so I jumped in the pool and got one.
I received it Thursday 3/17/11 and inspected it, I was blow away by the manufacturing quality Thermalright had put into this heat sink, so today Friday, I decided to run some tests with the Noctua change the heat sink to the Thermalright and run some of the same tests, just out of curiosity.
I knew the test would not be fair as the Noctua was running fully cured AS5 and the Thermalright would be running fresh AS5, well guys here's the shock, with fresh AS5 the Thermalright 120 extreme load temperatures beat the Noctua by 2c on 1 core and 3c on the other 3 cores, same ambient room temperature, running an overclocked 2500K with a 1.328Vcore.
So the Noctua will be the heat sink cooling another machine and the Thermalright 120 Extreme is staying right where it is, when the AS5 cures out, the performance will additionally improve by about 3c to 5c, so maybe there's some information here that will help you if you're trying to decide on an air cooler.
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