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 H150i Pro, stock clocks and overclocked.
As you can see from the graph below, a delta temperature of 3°C shows the outright performance of this huge radiator, even with the fans barely ticking over at 450RPM. Those fans did spin up slightly more when overclocked to 4.4GHz, but it matched the Kraken X62’s stock clocks delta temperature.
Moving onto the loaded results, which maxes all 12 threads to generate as much heat as possible from the i7-3930K. The results at 3.8GHz, considering the 130W TDP, is astounding. After 30 minutes the temperature, across all 6 cores, hadn’t broken above 50°C (27°C Delta to room temperate.)
This makes the Corsair H150i Pro our clear leader so far, with over 13°C of temperature difference to the NZXT X62 and still 6°C better off than the 280mm H115i Pro RGB.
Once again, we load up the overclocked profile and repeat the test, this time the CPU consumes around 160W of power; the Corsair barely breaks a sweat with all 6 cores reaching an average of 57.5°C. That drives a huge void between the H150i Pro and the Kraken X62 of over 16°C with like-for-like room temperatures. The H115i Pro RGB performed slightly better once overclocked, but acoustics may play a pivotal role here.
Over on the following page, we see how much noise was generated during these results.
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 H150i Pro, stock clocks and overclocked.
As you can see from the graph below, a delta temperature of 3°C shows the outright performance of this huge radiator, even with the fans barely ticking over at 450RPM. Those fans did spin up slightly more when overclocked to 4.4GHz, but it matched the Kraken X62’s stock clocks delta temperature.
Moving onto the loaded results, which maxes all 12 threads to generate as much heat as possible from the i7-3930K. The results at 3.8GHz, considering the 130W TDP, is astounding. After 30 minutes the temperature, across all 6 cores, hadn’t broken above 50°C (27°C Delta to room temperate.)
This makes the Corsair H150i Pro our clear leader so far, with over 13°C of temperature difference to the NZXT X62 and still 6°C better off than the 280mm H115i Pro RGB.
Once again, we load up the overclocked profile and repeat the test, this time the CPU consumes around 160W of power; the Corsair barely breaks a sweat with all 6 cores reaching an average of 57.5°C. That drives a huge void between the H150i Pro and the Kraken X62 of over 16°C with like-for-like room temperatures. The H115i Pro RGB performed slightly better once overclocked, but acoustics may play a pivotal role here.
Over on the following page, we see how much noise was generated during these results.
