Wraith Max vs Noctua & Be Quiet coolers

[geo3]

Anyone know how the default cooler for the 2700x, the Wraith Max, preforms vs either a NH-L12S or a BK020 Dark Rock TF, or where I can find them directly benched against each other?

[Jurrunio]

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/891730-cpu-cooler-performance-tier-list/

[HayHay]

The Wraith Max is a pretty good cooler which can handle slight over clocking. If you don't plan to overclock at all, don't buy a seperate cooler. If you plan to do some overclocking, stick with stock. If you plan to overclock a lot, go Dark Rock Pro 4 or 212 Evo. 

[TheSLSAMG]

2 minutes ago, HayHay said:

The Wraith Max is a pretty good cooler which can handle slight over clocking. If you don't plan to overclock at all, don't buy a seperate cooler. If you plan to do some overclocking, stick with stock. If you plan to overclock a lot, go Dark Rock Pro 4 or 212 Evo. 

The 212 EVO and Dark Rock Pro 4 are worlds apart, and the Wraith MAX is about as good as an EVO (so it would be a poor purchase). 

 

The Dark Rock Pro 4 is nice though, as are the other 140mm towers. Tough to fit in a lot of cases though.

[HayHay]

1 minute ago, TheSLSAMG said:

The 212 EVO and Dark Rock Pro 4 are worlds apart, and the Wraith MAX is about as good as an EVO (so it would be a poor purchase). 

 

The Dark Rock Pro 4 is nice though, as are the other 140mm towers. Tough to fit in a lot of cases though.

Yeah that was my bad, the Wraith Max should be good enough tbh and while the Rock Pro is hard to fit in a case, it's well worth it with the temps. 

An alternative suggestion could be to use the Wraith MAX paired with Liquid Metal or a high end thermal paste tbh! That would be a lot cheaper than buying any cooler.

[TheSLSAMG]

12 minutes ago, geo3 said:

Anyone know how the default cooler for the 2700x, the Wraith Max, preforms vs either a NH-L12S or a BK020 Dark Rock TF, or where I can find them directly benched against each other?

The Wraith Max should perform a little bit better than the NH-L12S. In TweakTown's testing, the Dark Rock TF performed as well as a Cryorig R1 Universal (quite the feat as the R1 Universal is a dual 140mm tower cooler.) This will likely put it far ahead the Wraith Max, though there's nothing wrong with the Wraith Max so long as you're not pushing overclocks too hard.

[geo3]

24 minutes ago, HayHay said:

The Wraith Max is a pretty good cooler which can handle slight over clocking. If you don't plan to overclock at all, don't buy a seperate cooler. If you plan to do some overclocking, stick with stock. If you plan to overclock a lot, go Dark Rock Pro 4 or 212 Evo. 

 

22 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

The 212 EVO and Dark Rock Pro 4 are worlds apart, and the Wraith MAX is about as good as an EVO (so it would be a poor purchase). 

 

The Dark Rock Pro 4 is nice though, as are the other 140mm towers. Tough to fit in a lot of cases though.

None of those will fit my board and case. I asked about those specific coolers for a reason.

15 minutes ago, TheSLSAMG said:

The Wraith Max should perform a little bit better than the NH-L12S. In TweakTown's testing, the Dark Rock TF performed as well as a Cryorig R1 Universal (quite the feat as the R1 Universal is a dual 140mm tower cooler.) This will likely put it far ahead the Wraith Max, though there's nothing wrong with the Wraith Max so long as you're not pushing overclocks too hard.

Do you have a link to the results?

[TheSLSAMG]

Just now, geo3 said:

 

None of those will fit my board and case. I asked about those specific coolers for a reason.

Do you have a link to the results?

To the TweakTown review for the Dark Rock TF, yes. 

 

As for the NH-L12S, I made an inference based upon what I've seen (TweakTown also tested it, however they didn't compare it to a lot of more well-known coolers including the EVO.)