4 Tower-type coolers round up comparison

[Onepagebook]

I did a "4 tower type coolers comparison" bench,
purpose is just get you guys in general idea how these coolers perform.

Air coolers:

1. Noctua NH-D14Se
2. Phanteks tc14pe
3. ThermalRight Silver-arrow (old rev)
4. TT Frio-OCK

--->They look like the following picture here:

Testbed :
Intel I7-3960x 6c/12t enable
Asus Rampage IV extreme bios 1201
VGA: AMD Radeon 7970
Memory: Samsung HCH9 DDR2400(OC from 1333 HCH9) 1.65v C9-11-11-28
PSU: Corsair AX1200W

** I use original fans from the manufactures come with the coolers;
also use PWM cable pretty much control fan speed around “1200rpm”

**Software to grab temperature as reference: Real Temp GT 3.7

**Software to bench for recording max loading temperatures

1.hyper pi 32m 16 thread,
why 16 threads is I thought adding extra 4 threads more than
it should be will give more stress on cpu native cores and IMC
2. FutureMark 3D vantage full set.

Sample screen from running the hyper pi 32m 16 threads took from camera:

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Mounting tools from these 4 coolers;
I will just show the parts with socket 2011

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Now let's see all these 4 coolers:

1. Noctua D14 SE 2001..

2. TT Frio-OCK

3. phanteks tc-14pe

4. Thermalright Silver-arrow (this is the old original one, I will have the SB-E testing tomorrow )

OK, now, I have to say, running prime95 or LinX is quite time consuming,
so I decide to pick “hyper pi 0.98b” and then 32m 16 threads
(because I have i7-3960x run as 6c12t),
it’s not only able to check CPU but also your memory stability in short term.

So here are the results from what I colleted

Part 1: Hyper pi 0.98b 32m 16 threads

Noctua d14..

Thermalright silver arrow

TT frio-ock

phanteks tc 14 pe

As the results, I collect the data of what I see from the max values of
Real temp GT 3.7 and get them to one chart so we have:

Part 2: 3D Vantage

Now we check on another old bench, Futuremark 3D vantage

Noctua d14..

Thermalright Frio-OCK

Thermalright Silver arrow

Phanteks tc14pe

And we do the chart again

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OK, From these two charts, we can see Thermalright and Phanteks TC14PE almost about the same results,
and I am quite surprised that Noctua NH-D14se results are not that ideal for holding temp. From my own perspective,
I thought it might be improved by adding the 3rd 140mm fan or speeding the rpm a bit. Color=red]
(note that I use around 1200rpm for all testing fan speed)[/color]

Hope this comparison helps.

 

[spayced]

Thanks for the comparison.

I was looking at 3 out of the 4 heatsinks myself, trying to decide which one to get.

 

[bonnev659]

nice work doing the comparison

 

[Onepagebook]

thanks guys, I will have new thermalright SB-e to look and share

 

[kalvin37]

Thx for sharing. Very handful info.

 

[spayced]

Thanks for the comparison again.

Could you describe a bit your installation experience with each? I'm assuming it's pretty straight forward but I wouldn't want to be surprised by anything out of the ordinary.

 

[Onepagebook]

Thanks for the comparison again.

Could you describe a bit your installation experience with each? I'm assuming it's pretty straight forward but I wouldn't want to be surprised by anything out of the ordinary.

yup there is no particular or weird installation especially on the socket 2011 if you are talking about that.
The main thing is you have to get used into the installation (actually is easier than 775/1155/1366) that tighten the 4 screws secured to the 2011 bck plate, then rest of the installation is just the same as before.