EK Classic RGB P240 review

Posted on: 09/25/2019 10:23 AM

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For the situation where you cool one processor, not overclocked I agree that the step from 240/280 to 360 is not going to make that much of a difference, as the cooling capacity of the radiator is is not 100% utilized with say a 90 Watt TDP proc.

Thanks. Well actually I was thinking of the situation where for example I have 3900X running with its Wraith Spire cooler from AMD, and I am not doing any overclocking of processor at all (by manually setting voltages) but instead let it do its own boosting as it was designed to do (from 3800 to 4600 Mhz).

What I want to know is.... would I see any benefit at all in this situation from switching from the supplied AMD Wraith cooler (which I really like the look of BTW) to a third party AIO or water cooler system? (I like the look of the NZXT one)
I mean does the CPU boost spike more or for longer if the cooler is slightly better?

And by benefit I mean would I see any difference in benchmark result scores or longer all-core load results (such as long all core 10+ minutes renders). So I know others used certain render tests which took 17 minutes to run, which gave time for most coolers to heat up and reach some thermal throttling situation (even the short Cinebench R20 run is not long enough to do this)