The King of Coolers

mayebaza

mayebaza

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IMO the Noctua DH14 with Artic Silver 5 is the undisputed King of Coolers. I have ran Prime95 for 12 hours with a top temp of 52 degrees even while recording several TV programs as well. How could that this was possible at 3.92 GHz at 1.52v from a C2 955 and oh sooo quiet.
My previous cooler Xigmatek’s Dark Knight, which is no slouch, could only produce 3.7GHz at 1.42v maxing out 57-59 degrees.
Oh I forgot that I am also overclocking my graphics card a Sapphire 5850 as well to 1245/875Mhz, I could not do this for long because my previous cooler would peak at 61 degrees when playing games. Room temp was about 22 degrees.
I am changeling any other air cooler to match this performance inside a case, not on a test bench.

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Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P, 955 BE(C2)@ 3.92GHz 1.52V, Geil Value 4GB DDR3-1600,
ATI 5850 1GB, CM90 II Advanced, 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black, 4 HDDs, XFX 850W
 
WingZero30 said:
Hmm why core temp is only showing temperature for 1 core and not for the other 3 cores?
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The Core Reading is the internal temperature from their die inside the chip i.e. the silicon. Unlike Intel Chips AMD have no such thermal sensors on the die therefore any so called core readings on AMD Chips are theoretical. AMD Chip thermal sensor monitors the Chip itself as a whole which will be the heat from all four cores
 
mayebaza said:
The Core Reading is the internal temperature from their die inside the chip i.e. the silicon. Unlike Intel Chips AMD have no such thermal sensors on the die therefore any so called core readings on AMD Chips are theoretical. AMD Chip thermal sensor monitors the Chip itself as a whole which will be the heat from all four cores
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In other words displaying lower temps than in reality:p. It's like the cpu temperature of intel chip which is lower than core temperature.
 
mayebaza said:
IMO the Noctua DH14 with Artic Silver 5 is the undisputed King of Coolers. ]
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While everyone is entitled to their opinion, I believe you'll find that this is far from undisputed.

For example, custom watercooling will thrash it. A noctua DH14 soldered to the chip will beat it, and indeed any tim superior to arctic silver (there are a fair few) will also beat it. I'm not convinced the heatsink itself is even the best performer in its class.

Still, I'm glad you are pleased with your purchase.
 
I doubt he meant custom watercooling in his assumption. I've used this sink on enough builds (over 30 since introduction) to know its slighty better than its peers, a tad better but nothing much in it.
 
Its performance comes with a stiff price tag. Not sure how people can justify £70+ on air cooling...

I remember when an air cooler above £50 was shocking!

Also the thing is fugly if you ask me, not only is it huge, ludicrously so, but it doesn't look symmetrical and the noctua fan colours are just wrong (they always have been)!

However I do agree almost every review I've read has been pretty good re: performance but price tag and looks are a lot more important to me and no doubt others making it not the best air cooler overal.
 
Justintime said:
I doubt he meant custom watercooling in his assumption. I've used this sink on enough builds (over 30 since introduction) to know its slighty better than its peers, a tad better but nothing much in it.
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We all have opinions, but where is the evidence, that what I am looking for. What does slightly better mean in real terms?
 
AlexTrickle said:
Its performance comes with a stiff price tag. Not sure how people can justify £70+ on air cooling...
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If they are worried about water then its kind of understandable. You just have to get the best air you can get and that comes at a premium.
 
Thermalright Archon is the new kid on the block and as good as silver arrow but without the ram clearance issues.

It's basically a bigger TRUE/Venomous x
 
For cooling on my 1055T ,125W, 24/7, 3.5GHz, 41C on CPU. I would not swap out my TRUE 120mm on any of these grounds.

Looks, clearances, performance, acoustics, simplicity, price.

I use a single apache at 1000rpm under load

andy
 
AlexTrickle said:
Quite a nice graph.

Just ordered the Venomous X to pair with 2x Xigmatek XLF fans. Glad to see its up at the top :)
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Good choice!

C64 said:
Thermalright Archon is the new kid on the block and as good as silver arrow but without the ram clearance issues.

It's basically a bigger TRUE/Venomous x
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I've heard good things about the Archon. Hopefully I will have one soon to test. It's meant to have a larger surface area than the VX so that alone will be in its favour.
 
I cant wait for you to test the Archon, when you do can you use 2x 140mm in push pull as well as the 1 stock 140mm fan ?
 
C64 said:
The thermalright silver arrow is the best the d14 is a close second the thermalright Hr02 is also up there with the correct fans.

Source http://www.vortez.co.uk/
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If you look closely at the results the Silver Arrow does not beat the Noctua when each is using cooler its own fans, only with the SWiF2-120P fans operating at a thundering 1900RPM does it beat the Noctua.
 
thats a very valid point as said above.. didnt notice that, D14 is still a top cooler id be tempted also since u get the resisters chucked in so technicaly would be a lot more silent/adjustable, one could buy the 5v/7v adaptors seperately of course for any cooler...
 
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