Corsair H100 review

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Extended overclock sessions versus temperatures

 

Extended overclock sessions versus temperatures

Since we have such high-end cooling in the house we definitely should have better tweakability on the processor.

As such I was wondering where I'd end up with a quick overclock session. We had a peek at a selection of stages in overclocking and their respective temperatures, have a look at the following results please.

Temperatures in Degrees Celsius

Okay so these are the two tested stages, above Core i7 870 @ 3.8 GHz with 1.4 volts on the CPU | unit set to all three RPM modes.

So even at 3800 MHz with 1.4 volts we can really use the processor. Silent mode is still fine. Let's up it a notch though.

Now above we see Core i7 870 @ 4.2 GHz with 1.5 volts on the CPU | unit set to performance mode

4200 MHz with 1.5v on the CPU, when 100% stressed the CPU would reach 60 Degrees C. That for a CPU cooler is impressive. Please bear in mind that the 1.5 volts we used is really high for a 4200 MHz CPU clock. Typically 1.35~1.4v would be fine as well. We use a slightly higher voltage to show you that the cooler can cope with the additional heat coming from the CPU.

What we can conclude here is that the thermal dissipation, or even better stated, the cooling capacity under high stress, is pretty good. It shows that this cooler has a lot of capacity for the most stringent overclock setups.

We are borderline with temperatures though.

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