JSHamlet234
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And they actually did beat my air cooler. Due to me not being able to make up my mind and trying unsuccessfully to cancel an order on Amazon, I ended up with 2 AIOs on my front porch. An Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 and an EVGA CLC 280. Naturally I had to figure out which one was better. I figured I would share my results because I'm someone who doesn't get free shit from these companies.
The air cooler they were up against is a Phanteks PH-TC14PE - and not just any PH-TC14PE, mine is pimped out with 3 Arctic P14 PWM's, which make it run about 4 degrees cooler than the stock configuration. Safe to say it would mop the floor with an NH-D15 as configured. To be fair, I pimped the AIO's too - both of them got 4 of the same P14 fan in push/pull. Incidentally, the CLC 280's stock fans produced the best temperatures of all, but they are as loud as Deltas doing it - and they are even noisy just turning 1000rpm, so I never planned on using them. My son's Ryzen 1700 has the same cooler. The case is a Coolermaster HAF XB EVO Lan Box. With the air cooler, the case was configured with front intake fans and a rear exhaust fan. The AIOs were configured as exhausts with rear and top intake fans.
Intel 5960X 4.2GHz 1.18V, cache at 4.0GHz 1.08V. ASUS X99-A. 32GB of DDR4-2666 14-14-14-34. 1 NVMe SSD, 1 SATA SSD, 1 SATA HDD, and 2 980TI blower cards that do a good job of disposing of their own heat. Arctic MX-4 paste.
Testing was done with Prime 95 26.6, Small FFT. Ambient temp was 24.0C.
Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Steady State Package Temp: 67.5C
Cores: 61.0, 61.5, 67.4, 64.7, 65.3, 65.7, 64.3, 61.9
Average Package Power: 202.2 watts
Delta Temp: 43.5
Thermal Resistance: 0.21513
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
Steady State Package Temp: 65.5
Cores: 58.7, 59.1, 65.5, 62.5, 62.6, 62.0, 62.7, 59.6
Average Package Power: 205.2 watts
Delta Temp: 41.5
Thermal Resistance: 0.20224
EVGA CLC 280
Steady State Package Temp: 63.1
Cores: 56.7, 56.6, 63.1, 59.8, 59.4, 59.6, 59.6, 59.6, 57.5
Average Package Power: 204.9 watts
Delta Temp: 39.1
Thermal Resistance: 0.19082
It looks like I'll be keeping the EVGA (Asetek Gen 5). I think the bigger cold plate makes it better for a HEDT chip.
The air cooler they were up against is a Phanteks PH-TC14PE - and not just any PH-TC14PE, mine is pimped out with 3 Arctic P14 PWM's, which make it run about 4 degrees cooler than the stock configuration. Safe to say it would mop the floor with an NH-D15 as configured. To be fair, I pimped the AIO's too - both of them got 4 of the same P14 fan in push/pull. Incidentally, the CLC 280's stock fans produced the best temperatures of all, but they are as loud as Deltas doing it - and they are even noisy just turning 1000rpm, so I never planned on using them. My son's Ryzen 1700 has the same cooler. The case is a Coolermaster HAF XB EVO Lan Box. With the air cooler, the case was configured with front intake fans and a rear exhaust fan. The AIOs were configured as exhausts with rear and top intake fans.
Intel 5960X 4.2GHz 1.18V, cache at 4.0GHz 1.08V. ASUS X99-A. 32GB of DDR4-2666 14-14-14-34. 1 NVMe SSD, 1 SATA SSD, 1 SATA HDD, and 2 980TI blower cards that do a good job of disposing of their own heat. Arctic MX-4 paste.
Testing was done with Prime 95 26.6, Small FFT. Ambient temp was 24.0C.
Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Steady State Package Temp: 67.5C
Cores: 61.0, 61.5, 67.4, 64.7, 65.3, 65.7, 64.3, 61.9
Average Package Power: 202.2 watts
Delta Temp: 43.5
Thermal Resistance: 0.21513
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
Steady State Package Temp: 65.5
Cores: 58.7, 59.1, 65.5, 62.5, 62.6, 62.0, 62.7, 59.6
Average Package Power: 205.2 watts
Delta Temp: 41.5
Thermal Resistance: 0.20224
EVGA CLC 280
Steady State Package Temp: 63.1
Cores: 56.7, 56.6, 63.1, 59.8, 59.4, 59.6, 59.6, 59.6, 57.5
Average Package Power: 204.9 watts
Delta Temp: 39.1
Thermal Resistance: 0.19082
It looks like I'll be keeping the EVGA (Asetek Gen 5). I think the bigger cold plate makes it better for a HEDT chip.