We have recently made changes to our cooling department and the associated testing methodology, so please note that the number of results shown below will increase over time as we add additional products. We hope that these results will appear clearer to the majority of our readership and look forward to building upon the baselines that you see below.
We start off by letting the CPU cooler “bed in” for a couple of hours, to ensure the paste has time to move around and form an even layer, after which an idle result is taken.
Please note that the Balanced profile was used within the Corsair Link software to strike a balance between noise and performance; this rings true for all of our tests on the H100i Pro RGB, both with stock clocks and overclocked.
Compared to similarly sized CPU coolers, the temperatures aren't high, but the fan speeds to maintain those temperatures are about twice what we would expect; requiring over 1,000 RPM to obtain 5.1°C above the ambient temperature. The consequence of this is evident on the following page, when acoustics are measured. The Corsair ML120 fans are capable of running between 400 RPM all the way up to 2,400 RPM.
Load temperatures demonstrated this as a fairly decent CPU cooler, beating plenty of opposition, especially without the overclock where it was only bested by it's bigger brother. However, fan speeds were again where we'd like to see them.
We start off by letting the CPU cooler “bed in” for a couple of hours, to ensure the paste has time to move around and form an even layer, after which an idle result is taken.
Please note that the Balanced profile was used within the Corsair Link software to strike a balance between noise and performance; this rings true for all of our tests on the H100i Pro RGB, both with stock clocks and overclocked.
Compared to similarly sized CPU coolers, the temperatures aren't high, but the fan speeds to maintain those temperatures are about twice what we would expect; requiring over 1,000 RPM to obtain 5.1°C above the ambient temperature. The consequence of this is evident on the following page, when acoustics are measured. The Corsair ML120 fans are capable of running between 400 RPM all the way up to 2,400 RPM.
Load temperatures demonstrated this as a fairly decent CPU cooler, beating plenty of opposition, especially without the overclock where it was only bested by it's bigger brother. However, fan speeds were again where we'd like to see them.
