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.
While idle, the Noctua is marginally higher than the other two 3.8GHz results we have, though 8°C above room temperature is impressive for a small cooler on top of a 130W CPU. It’s worth noting that the X62 and Arctic Freezer both run with two fans and have much larger surface areas.
Moving onto load temperatures, we run an AIDS 64 Stress Test for 20 minutes then take the average reading over the six cores. After testing at the stock frequency of 3.8GHz and finding the CPU almost reaching its thermal-throttling threshold of 90’C, we decided running the overclock test would be unwise. Please bear in mind that this CPU cooler is not designed for a CPU with a 130W TDP, so we’re taking it well out of its comfort zone in this test. Despite this, the CPU still completed the 20 minutes stress test.
While idle, the Noctua is marginally higher than the other two 3.8GHz results we have, though 8°C above room temperature is impressive for a small cooler on top of a 130W CPU. It’s worth noting that the X62 and Arctic Freezer both run with two fans and have much larger surface areas.
Moving onto load temperatures, we run an AIDS 64 Stress Test for 20 minutes then take the average reading over the six cores. After testing at the stock frequency of 3.8GHz and finding the CPU almost reaching its thermal-throttling threshold of 90’C, we decided running the overclock test would be unwise. Please bear in mind that this CPU cooler is not designed for a CPU with a 130W TDP, so we’re taking it well out of its comfort zone in this test. Despite this, the CPU still completed the 20 minutes stress test.
