Have been running a i2700K @ 4.3 and cooling it with a Corsair H60 with a single 120 fan pushing air through the radiator and out the case.
Fan speed control - PWM.
Swapped Corsairs own for an Apache silent immediately after purchase - much quieter and cooling was more than acceptable.
Saw the 'new' Piranha fan and thought not only do I like the name
(a fan!! called a Piranha -for...?) it looks as though it might cool better with having a higher static pressure which is, I'm lead to believe , a good thing
So bought one ; arrived yesterday and , as better half is out this evening , have just fitted it.
Obviously easy to fit.
Looks like .... a fan.
Blue grey blades rather than green/khaki.
Testing - I did give my existing set up a run before fitting and running the new and found that temperature wise not much , if any, difference at idle and identical at load (IBT freeze test standard 5 runs).
BUT fan speeds were a fair bit different :-
Apache - 722 min and max of 950
Piranha - 600 min and max of 900
After IBT stopped I let it idle for 6 mins to see if there was any difference in the speed that each dropped the heat and in summary the Piranha does appear to work that little bit better (then again it was only 1c (across all 4 cores) - hardly a big deal).
But again fan speed was a fair bit better - Apache was running 777 at end whereas the Piranha was running at 600.
Summary - it cools as well if not better than the Apache. Does run slower so no noise at idle and does not get, imo, loud even under load. (But would observe that I never found the Apache loud)
Would not read too much into this VERY mini review , hardly a scientific test etc but I hope it's of use.
Fan speed control - PWM.
Swapped Corsairs own for an Apache silent immediately after purchase - much quieter and cooling was more than acceptable.
Saw the 'new' Piranha fan and thought not only do I like the name
(a fan!! called a Piranha -for...?) it looks as though it might cool better with having a higher static pressure which is, I'm lead to believe , a good thingSo bought one ; arrived yesterday and , as better half is out this evening , have just fitted it.
Obviously easy to fit.
Looks like .... a fan.
Blue grey blades rather than green/khaki.
Testing - I did give my existing set up a run before fitting and running the new and found that temperature wise not much , if any, difference at idle and identical at load (IBT freeze test standard 5 runs).
BUT fan speeds were a fair bit different :-
Apache - 722 min and max of 950
Piranha - 600 min and max of 900
After IBT stopped I let it idle for 6 mins to see if there was any difference in the speed that each dropped the heat and in summary the Piranha does appear to work that little bit better (then again it was only 1c (across all 4 cores) - hardly a big deal).
But again fan speed was a fair bit better - Apache was running 777 at end whereas the Piranha was running at 600.
Summary - it cools as well if not better than the Apache. Does run slower so no noise at idle and does not get, imo, loud even under load. (But would observe that I never found the Apache loud
)Would not read too much into this VERY mini review , hardly a scientific test etc but I hope it's of use.
