In the next comparison, we look at the default cooler performance as they come out of the box with their bundled fans. Coolers that come with no fans have been coupled with Noctua’s NF-P12 or fans that the manufacturers intended their coolers to be used with.


In its out-of-the-box configuration, the Triglav is certainly very impressive and shoots straight to the middle of our highly competitive table. Despite featuring only three heat pipes, it competes with coolers with far more demonstrating the effectiveness of the 10mm thick design and the heatsink itself. It even outperforms the Matterhorn and the Nordwand, the latter using the same fan. Even the Megahalem with the two NF-P12 fans is only marginally ahead.


Efficiency with two NF-P12s is once again fairly impressive. It is on par with the Antec KÜHLER H2O 920 which costs more than twice the price! It manages to outperform the Matterhorn by 0.5C and leaves the recently reviewed KÜHLER H2O 620 in the dust.


Unfortunately, the heatsink doesn’t seem to respond well to higher RPM fans and it drops down the table. However, it is still on par with the Coolink Corator DS and the Alpenföhn Matterhorn so the results are not disappointing.


The Triglav is amongst the few coolers that allow larger fans with 120mm mounting holes to be installed. With that in mind, it makes excellent use of their low RPM nature to deliver excellent performance. Only the much more expensive Thermalright, Prolimatech, Noctua and NZXT coolers can outperform the Triglav