Gamers Nexus starts detailed cooler testing

[Tech Enthusiast]

So, we will finally see that the Noctua NH-D15 is the best CPU cooler?

 

On a more serious note:

Yeah, if 80 bucks for the best CPU cooler is too much for a budget, it will be great to have a resource to look up cheaper coolers. Amazing!

[SenKa]

On 3/6/2020 at 2:51 AM, kakik09 said:

Doesn't Steve believe loop order matters, as opposed to Linus who doesn't? I wonder when this will be settled

Steve addressed this during a stream. He puts things in the "correct" order largely out of habit, but he also acknowledges that once the water heat soaks, if there is a difference, it is within the margin of error of conventional testing. I believe that is quoting him correctly, but this WAS a while ago now.

 

Jay also did a test of this, and came to that conclusion.

[Orangeator]

I would jump at the chance to purchase a cpu cooler designed by TechJesus himself... $100 for a quality tower cooler from him anyday.

[GDRRiley]

First review is out

 

[nox_]

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All other reviews of this cooler were mostly positive, I wonder if they just don't care or only saying what Corsair is telling them to say.. Tbh didn't watch all of the reviews on this, but still.

Edited March 10, 2020 by noxdeouroboros

[GDRRiley]

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All other reviews of this cooler were mostly positive, I wonder if they just don't care or only saying what Corsair is telling them to say.. Tbh didn't watch all of the reviews on this, but still.

I think most tests showed it within the margin of error and really liked the fans.

Steve clearly don't give a F*uck about looks so performance vs noise is all that matters.

[nox_]

2 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

Steve clearly don't give a F*uck about looks so performance vs noise is all that matters.

Looking forward to other reviews of his.

[ravenshrike]

14 minutes ago, noxdeouroboros said:

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All other reviews of this cooler were mostly positive, I wonder if they just don't care or only saying what Corsair is telling them to say.. Tbh didn't watch all of the reviews on this, but still.

 

12 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

I think most tests showed it within the margin of error and really liked the fans.

Steve clearly don't give a F*uck about looks so performance vs noise is all that matters.

In isolation it's a decent cooler. But it performs worse than the 6 year old king of the hill as well as a recently released contemporary. What's more, the cooler sees effectively no improvement in performance past a certain fan speed while significantly increasing noise, which consumers would not test significantly and so their fan speed settings would go beyond the max effective speed since they would think that increasing the fan past 70% fan speed would actually improve temps.

[KaitouX]

All reviews I saw on the A500 were basically "The idea is great, the performance(noise vs temps) is shit".

[TheNamelessOne]

32 minutes ago, noxdeouroboros said:

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All other reviews of this cooler were mostly positive, I wonder if they just don't care or only saying what Corsair is telling them to say.. Tbh didn't watch all of the reviews on this, but still.

Watch Jay's review of it and you can tell he knows it's crap but because he was paid by Corsair he can't say it's crap and declares that more people should buy it. XD

[Mihle]

10 hours ago, noxdeouroboros said:

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All other reviews of this cooler were mostly positive, I wonder if they just don't care or only saying what Corsair is telling them to say.. Tbh didn't watch all of the reviews on this, but still.

LTTs was negative. Basically saying it is overpriced for the performance you get.

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, Mihle said:

LTTs was negative. Basically saying it is overpriced for the performance you get.

From memory Jay mostly liked the different fan mounting style, other than that I don't think he gave it high praise at all (cos price).

[TechyBen]

On 3/7/2020 at 4:26 PM, SenKa said:

Steve addressed this during a stream. He puts things in the "correct" order largely out of habit, but he also acknowledges that once the water heat soaks, if there is a difference, it is within the margin of error of conventional testing. I believe that is quoting him correctly, but this WAS a while ago now.

 

Jay also did a test of this, and came to that conclusion.

I've seen the rigorous lengths Steve goes to do things. I've seen Linus learn a lot and sometimes rush and cut corners. Then I've seen Jay try to solder... with rocks and sticks.

 

I know which 2 of those 3 I trust the most.

[SenKa]

7 hours ago, TechyBen said:

I've seen the rigorous lengths Steve goes to do things. I've seen Linus learn a lot and sometimes rush and cut corners. Then I've seen Jay try to solder... with rocks and sticks.

 

I know which 2 of those 3 I trust the most.

IMO, there is one very specific circumstance where for a period of time performance may be affected by "poor" loop order. That would be a single loop system with both a CPU and GPU in the loop, where the pump pumps in to the CPU block first. In that scenario, if you're doing a combined high power usage load and heating up the water in the CPU block, before the water heat soaks, you're giving the GPU warmer water than you could be which may cause it to down clock before temperatures equalize.

 

But even then water does not spike in temperature enough for it to be very notable unless your loop happens to equalize on the edge of a clock target.