Testing the cooler
Testing the cooler
Time to test. The cooler will work absolutely great with any processor from low to high-end (Phenom II/Core i5/i7 quad-core and even six-core included) at default operating speeds, there's room left for overclocking as well.
Now what we always do for a little more serious testing, we test the cooler with higher requirements, mildly overclocked as reference. We change the processor frequency and voltage.
Methodology -- We use an eVGA p55 Classified 200 motherboard, equip it with a Core i5 750 (2.67 GHz) processor, which we overclock towards 3.3 GHz / 1.3 Volts. Now we'll test the cooler in two utilization stages:
- Actively cooled - yet CPU has nothing to do (IDLE)
- Actively cooled - four processors cores 100% stressed (LOAD)
Let's have a look at the results compared to other coolers we tested under the same conditions. Below the IDLE temperatures.
As you can see the cooler positions show decent performance in idle compared to the rest of the gang. But IDLE temps are not really what we are after.
But now let's have a look at the processors LOAD temperatures.
Please understand for the above results -- temperatures are based on a slightly overclocked Core i5 750 processor with a little extra voltage (1.3v), the fan speed is set at 80% RPM on ALL coolers shown for objective comparison reasons. Obviously LOWER = BETTER.
- Anything at roughly 50 Degrees C or lower we consider enthusiast class cooling.
- Anything in-between 51 to 60 Degrees C we consider performance cooling
- Anything in-between 61 to 70 Degrees C we consider mainstream cooling
- Anything above 71 Degrees C we consider average cooling
We are hovering just over 50 Degrees C with the processor slightly overclocked under full load, that's great.
