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#5353426 Posted on: 11/01/2016 10:51 AM
Looks like MSI has a winner here!
Silent, performing great and good price! Well done!
Looks like MSI has a winner here!
Silent, performing great and good price! Well done!
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#5353427 Posted on: 11/01/2016 11:09 AM
I wonder if the Corsair H110 and above are in Quiet or Performance mode in the temperature tests. I guess they are in Perf. mode cause they are slightly ahead of EK Predators.
Apart from that it would have been very interesting to test the HS reviewed with the addition of a 2nd fan of similar characteristic in pull mode.
I wonder if the Corsair H110 and above are in Quiet or Performance mode in the temperature tests. I guess they are in Perf. mode cause they are slightly ahead of EK Predators.
Apart from that it would have been very interesting to test the HS reviewed with the addition of a 2nd fan of similar characteristic in pull mode.
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#5353445 Posted on: 11/01/2016 12:58 PM
I wonder what the effect will be on the GPU's temperature if you take into consideration the direction of airflow. According to the images, the exhaust blows directly on the graphics card...just a thought.
I wonder what the effect will be on the GPU's temperature if you take into consideration the direction of airflow. According to the images, the exhaust blows directly on the graphics card...just a thought.
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#5353448 Posted on: 11/01/2016 01:13 PM
Techpowerup used it sideways:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/Core-Frozr-L/images/installed1.jpg
I wonder what the effect will be on the GPU's temperature if you take into consideration the direction of airflow. According to the images, the exhaust blows directly on the graphics card...just a thought.
Techpowerup used it sideways:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/Core-Frozr-L/images/installed1.jpg
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Impressive results, just a bit shy of the older Noctua DH14 model which is a fair bit bulkier and heavier, not bad at all.
EDIT: Noctua DH14 ~1200g with both fans whereas this according to specs weighs 960g, still heavy but a good reduction while offering similar performance.
(Plus the DH14 uses two fans whereas this uses one but if I remember reviews right there's not a huge difference if you remove one of the fans from the DH14.)
Can't really tell due to this motherboard in the review having a shroud or something over the CPU slot but I guess this fan isn't quite as restrictive with RAM size either depending on motherboard layout.
EDIT: Falls behind a little bit more in the overclock test but not by that much, 3 degrees or so in idle and then pretty much even in the full load test which is the more important one.
Though I guess air cooling caps out depending on various factors from idle temps to airflow and such whereas water cooling while a bit more work to set up has less restrictions.
(And then there's oil cooling or more like submersion but I haven't seen that in a few years now so I guess it was too much work for only marginal improvements over water?)
EDIT: Seems to be fairly silent too.
Wonder how that 5960K 8-core CPU would fare? Guessing it's a bit above the 4790 here in terms of heat although if one can afford a 1000$+ dollar CPU just like that one could probably afford decent cooling for it heh not exactly standard hardware with such pricing though then again for "just" gaming a eight core CPU might be a bit overkill in most titles due to CPU scaling, "lower" end model but OC'd a bit to make up for it might fare better too due to that, probably getting a higher stable OC too.
(Not that I would know but I assume with hardware like that or GPU's like the TitanX Pascal well the manufacturer might be a bit less willing to let the review website or such keep said hardware too so probably not the easiest to keep around for testing.)