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.


As a budget cooler, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the Triglav falls short of our higher end coolers but after the brilliant showing at stock CPU speed, it’s a shame to see its limitations come to light here. The Triglav falls behind other Alpenföhn offerings like the Nordwand and the Matterhorn suggesting the latter two are more catered towards overclocked system.


Heatsink efficiency starts to diminish at the higher clock speed and this is evident here. No longer do we see the Triglav in the mid tables but instead it falls to the bottom. The Triglav ended up 3C behind the Nordwand and the Matterhorn.


With the two Coolink fans, the Triglav just cannot compete. This is likely down to the fins’ design favouring low RPM fans and not making the best use of the faster RPM ones. It could also be because the two cooler that failed to beat the Triglav with the NF-P12s were never tested with the SWiF2-120Ps.


Here the Triglav was only 1C short of the NH-C14’s default configuration.