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welcome back to harbor unboxed roughly at this time last week I put together the smallest gaming PC I've ever built using this sleek looking in win Chopin overall it was an awesome little PC featuring the arisin 520 400 G which allows for respectable performance eternity P in competitive titles such as overwatch and fortnight for example the 2400 G is an unlocked part and users are free to overclock not just the CPU but also the GPU and this can boost gaming performance by around 10% for that particular model not a shattering gains but French we level Hardware every bit helps aim DS box cooler the Wraith stealth allows things to get a little too toasty when overclocking so I picked up the crying C server instead and just assumed that that would be better I wasn't assuming that it would be a significant improvement over the Box cooler but enough to allow for a decent overclock sadly though the c7 allowed the 2400 G to get quite hot and I was surprised by how loud it was it was really quite ridiculous and it seemed much louder than the box cooler and I wasn't convinced the temperatures were really all that improved so I decided to investigate having reported the operating temperatures with the c7 as well as recording the operating volume I swapped it out for the Wraith stealth now to fit the box call it into the Chopin you need to remove the plastic shroud on the top of the fan so not the fan shroud just the little decorative piece on the top with the AMD branding behind the AMD branding and two small screws remove those and then the decorative plastic bitches clips off it's pretty quick and easy to remove and doing so won't impact performance in any way the wraith stealth now fits perfectly snug inside of the chopin now just a quick recap the cryo reg c7 allows for a peak operating temperature of 57 degrees in f1 2017 which is actually quite good really that said we did see temperatures hit 78 degrees when running our blender workload although that's an acceptable temperature it doesn't really allow much Headroom or really any Headroom for overclocking for reference previously when using the deep cooled gamax 200t we were able to keep the temperatures under 70 degrees at all times with the APU overclocked max so I was pretty disappointed with the c-7 last week when I tested it for this bill for the first time however now that I've gone and tested the Wraith stealth box cooler under the same conditions I've adjusted my opinion well kind of writing f1 2017 again with the Wraith stealth we now see the temperature peak at 61 degrees which is four degrees warmer than that of the c7 so it's not a huge difference but more than that one to two degrees I had in mind however it's the blender test where temps really creep up and here the Wraith stealth will add the 2400 GT 86 degrees and that's 8 degrees hotter than the c7 and well that's obviously quite significant that said there's also the issue of the operating volume and as I noted earlier the c7 seemed a lot louder and I noted that in last week's video as well turns out I wasn't imagining this here's some unaltered audio samples of how loud the Chopin is using each cooler please note the mic was positioned exactly 3 feet from the PC and the fan was directly facing the mic also for best results it's probably worth putting on some headphones so as I thought the cryo rig c-7 is much louder than the Wraith stealth box cooler even at idle the results are surprising and this is really probably what shocked me most about the c7 whereas the race style is virtually silent at idle you can clearly hear the c7 then when gaming the box cooler can still be heard but it really isn't that annoying of a c7 though it is significantly louder and it generates a very annoying high-pitched sound then for our blender workload the Reef stealth maxes out at around 2,000 rpm and with a fan spinning this fast you can clearly hear it but it's not really annoyingly loud in my opinion the c7 though that is now spinning at 2700 rpm and it's significantly louder than the Box cooler and for me it's just unacceptable loud personally I wouldn't want to be living with this thing so although the c7 reduced to 2400 G's operating temperature by 8 degrees I'm running our blender workload the increased operating volume really isn't worth the headache in my opinion not only that but with a higher rpm fan you'd know how to achieve the same results with the Wraith stealth anyway a likewise your group probably limit the c7s fan speed but then what's the point of spending $30 u.s. or 50 dollars Australian on a cool of it it's really no better than what came bundled with the CPU for free in conclusion though the c7 really isn't as bad as I thought it was this time last week at the time I was assuming thermal performance pretty much the same as the race stealth which is obviously a bad thing given it makes a lot more noise truth is though it is better than that but overall still not really that much better than the Wraith stealth Box cooler because when you account for the extra volume there extra thermal performance really it's kind of offset by that so Raven Ridge apu owners really stand to gain nothing by investing in the c7 and given that increases of the total cost of the 2400 G by almost 20% I'd recommend you keep your money and well that's going to do it for this one if you did enjoy the video then please hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work we do have our unbox and consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve