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The Conclusion - Failure Rate Of 45% - Thermalright And MSI/Watercool Recommended
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: cpu, cooler, charts, 2008
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The Conclusion - Failure Rate Of 45% - Thermalright And MSI/Watercool Recommended
It is truly remarkable how much junk is sold in hardware stores these days, and how badly customers are sometimes deceived. Any specifications quoted on the boxes should be taken with more than just a pinch of salt, as they very rarely coincided with our findings in the lab. After all, you can't tell a cooler's performance or noise level simply by unpacking it and looking at it closely. It is therefore highly inadvisable to buy a cooler without having read at least one independent review of it, if you care about getting good results. The sobering balance of the first part of our test covering more than 80 CPU coolers is this: 45% of the products tested here either fail the tests or simply aren't worth their price.
We must emphasize that the width, length and number of heatpipes alone is not a good indication of a product's cooling performance. Just as important, if not more so, is the composition of the gas inside the heatpipes, and the cooling configuration used to dissipate the heat into the surrounding space.
Thermalright offers a very good solution with the IFX-14, a model that provides very good cooling performance Compare Prices on CPU Coolers. Even with all four cores of the quad-core processor under full load, core temperature reached only 62°C. Paired with the Scythe SY1225SL12M fan, the cooler is all but silent in operation. As a result, it receives our recommendation.
We were also especially impressed with the water cooling solution presented by MSI and Watercool. Installing the HydroGen/HT Fusion Dual is extremely easy, and the cooler is ready for use as soon as the reservoir is filled. There are no problems getting the system started, as water flows through the system instantly, and the cooling unit can either be placed on top of your computer case or on the floor. Additionally, the cooler can be monitored through a standard fan header on the motherboard good cooling performance win it our second recommendation.
We were disappointed by manufacturers Scythe, Silverstone, Zerotherm and Zaward. Their products failed the test due to insufficient cooling performance, inferior build quality or an ill-conceived installation procedure.
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Noctua clearly state orientation of their coolers and that is ass about.
Every other review I have read rates the NH-U12F much more highly... always near best in class
If my Artic silver 5 + Scythe Katana 2 cooler(for only a massive price of 25 USD! I can keep my outdated Pentium D under 100 degrees fahrenheit,infact around HALF of these tests,even under water cooling? Wow,according to this,I should actually worry about getting a quad core because of the heat.And no,I don't have any fans in my case,it's open,only fans are from my GPU,CPU,and my PSU.
No extra 4 250mm performance fans.And an X38? That's just unbelievable.
A good article, i especially like the tests for installation and sound, as those are what i would look into most when purchasing a cooler, and unlike CPUs, there are usually no charts to go along with.
They have it on the top side of the sink flowing in a downward direction!!!
it goes against basic laws of physics and logic.
but when installed in a normal ATX case, would be detrimental to the coolers performance. Especially coolers designed similar to the Noctua and Scythe Ninja plus.
I can't be certain about others but Arctic Cooling's Freezer 7 Pro is supposed to be installed like this(one would assume others of similar design would be the same)
http://bigrockies.com/media/cooler.jpg
As these have published manufacturer recomended installations why would you reverse it.
I recently read a review of the latest Noctua cooler at Legitreviews
where Noctua actually contacted them on this very issue... as a result they retested and found some improvement in cooling.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/741/1/
... must be stupid ...! The fan is istalled at wrong side of the cooler ...
Nothing's wrong or stupid with that setup--two fans are used in a push-pull arrangement--the bottom fan is blowing into the cooler, the top fan is pulling air away from the cooler to exhaust it from the cooler.
As said the Noctua is setup with the fan on top blowing down, which is the only config that Noctua dont support.
The Thermalright has the fan in the middle blowing up so it looks like there is no real consistancy in the test methods... but I would like to hear from the testers in case they found some reason to use each particular setup.