Testing the cooler
Testing the cooler
Time to test. As stated before, 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, and there's room left for overclocking as well.
Now what we always do (for a little more serious testing ) we test it 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 C240 cooler positions immediately itself amongst the high-end performance range of heatpipe based coolers. Very close to the 120mm ECO though. But let's see if there's a difference when we stress all CPU cores.
Above 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, we do this for all coolers tested. Obviously LOWER = BETTER.
We are hovering just over 45 Degrees C with the processor slightly overclocked under full load. The standard ECO performs worse, roughly a six degrees C difference. The results here are pretty good really.
