The results have been arranged in terms of the fan configuration that yields the best results for each cooler. However, it is important to take into account that many coolers come with their own fans and changing those increases the costs significantly, so the “out of the box” cooler configurations have been highlighted in red each group.

4GHz


We often see Alpenföhn coolers losing ground trying to cool overclocked CPUs and irritatingly, the Himalaya doesn’t overcome this habit. Immediately, we see the whole group trailing near the bottom of our table but as usual, let’s take a closer look how the different fan configurations perform first. The worse performance comes from the default fan configuration at a 63.5C delta. This time, adding a second fan results in a 1C temperature drop due to the higher heat load requiring faster thermal transfer. Opting for Noctua fans improves temperatures further, the NF-P14 contributing more so to drop the delta by 3.5C compared to the stock single fan configuration. Once again, the best result is attributed to the Coolink fans.