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so I did say that with proper fans and I would define n FF 12s from Noctua to be about as proper fans as you can get for heatsink and radiator applications these are directed flow fans that are optimized for static pressure optimized for silence you can see they have rubber isolating mount to me honestly just to build quality these quality of these is just outstanding I've unboxed this fan before so you probably already know what I think about it if you saw that but if you haven't seen that friggin awesome basically it's like the best fan whereas I going with this ah yes so without the adapter runs at 1500 rpm personally I'm going to turn these bad boys down so I'm going to use the low noise adapter because I'm a bit of a silence freak this is going to be my standardized test bench but before I get started with my with my heatsink and radiator test bench I wanted to do a quick test because I had some people asking me well you say there's not much difference between just pull and push pull as long as you're using good quality fans what do you mean are you sure are you sure Linus are you sure so that's what I'm going to be doing I'm going to be taking these fans with their low noise adaptors I'm going to be running them and just pull on in h100 I and then I'm going to be running them in push pull on an H 100 I to see with a pressure optimized fan just how much of a difference there is so I will be back alright guys this video is going to serve a couple of purposes so number one it will answer once and for all that question that people keep sending me what should I get - cool my CPU and I'm talking like extreme like not you know the hyper 212 users out there and you know that's a good heatsink and all that but we're talking performance options here so we have vh 100 i from corsair right there representing the dual radiator pre-done liquid cooling class of products we have the silver arrow extreme representing extremely high-end air cooling same dual towers like eight heat pipes whatever else is going on in there don't worry I'm not using these fans and we have the H ATI representing thick single radiators should guess I should go find a thin single red hold on just SEC actually forget it I said this was for performance options so we're doing performance options here now I want to talk a little bit about my standardized test bench here this is a Corsair c70 Vengeance case I'm going to be running it with the stock fans in the front I am going to be running it with this fan in the back regardless of whatever else is going on that is an aqua n ff12 my favorite fan and whatever cooler I put in it is getting more Noctua n FF twelves these are going to be run with their no glare they're low noise adaptors because I personally don't think even for the highest performance gaming rig these days that there's any excuse for it to be loud so that's a 3930k in there that's going to be overclocked and over volted that's a GTX 580 we're going to close up the side panel because that's enough of CPU coolers being tested on open test benches I know it's not realistic so I'm not going to be lazy about it anymore guys we're testing all CPU coolers in a closed case without perfect cable management just like they're going to be run in the real world so we're going to take idle and load temperatures of each of these setups we are only using Noctua and ff12 fans we're replacing whatever comes on whatever coolers we use in the event that a cooler must use a larger than 120 millimeter fan we have a 15s so we can use those instead those are 140 mm fans so let's get started oh right one more thing the reason I'm using the same fans on every cooler because the stock coolers that are the stock fans that are included with most coolers are rubbish anyway so you again we're talking performance options you should be buying your own fan that's better also I'm using aftermarket thermal compound on all of them I'm using IC diamond thermal compound so there you go how'd a lot of people talk about IC 7 versus IC 24 guys it's the same stuff the 7 and 24 for carrots carrots are just weight they're not purity right so yeah consistency so that way we are going to have a consistent sort of overall noise level to the system because we're going to be running good quality fans and we're going to get a consistent experience with fans that are we optimized for whatever kind of cooler we're using because these are correctly optimized for any heat sink or radiator because they're awesome high-pressure focus flow just good good good good fans step one clean the existing thermal goop and any residue off of both surfaces so clean CPU is needed clean bottom of the heatsink is to gain up also needed guys when applying thermal compound less really is more remember this is a twenty eleven chip so that's how much goop it takes for that for an eleven fifty five that will be much less for this next shot prepare for your mind to be blown I'm going to turn around my shotgun Mike there we go get that pointed out the computer so you guys can hear what a gaming machine sounds like when it's correctly optimized Oh Oh it's silent - why do you care so much about the Silence of your gaming rig well because it doesn't have to be loud I'll turn my mic back round it's unnecessary it's just ridiculous if you want a loud gaming rig then why invest in these elegant cooling solutions that do such a good job why not just use a stock cooler and why don't you get an Xbox while you're at it you want a loud gaming machine I've explained this before in a previous video but I just want to go through my methodology again really quick guys so basically I'm using real temp GT to take temperatures I am recording idle temperatures after about five minutes just idling at the desktop I am recording ambient temperatures using my multi lager thermometer right here with a I forget something T type K type K type sensor there it is with a K type sensor right at the intake for the case so remember guys the front is the only intake that we're using here so the air is basically coming from there so that gives us a pretty good idea of what temperature the air cooling the CPU heatsink is and then I am taking low temperatures after about five minutes for air coolers I don't need to wait quite as long but for liquid coolers you have to wait for the liquid temperature itself to equalize and then I'm recording everything here so I no longer need these noise notes unless a water cooler has a pump noise because remember guys with water coolers you have whatever fans are running on it plus a pump every mechanical thing you add to a cooler is a another point of failure and B another potential noise source and I want to explain again how I'm correcting for idle temperature ambient temperatures so I'm going to correct 220 degrees I had people debating me about this last time please go find a physics professor or something and ask them if this is how it works if the temperature were to go up to 20 degrees it would scale by eleven point eight degrees that that's just that's how it works it's not it's not something that I want to debate about so I'll be correcting all temperatures and reporting them as if the room was at 20 degrees not as if it's at nine point two degrees because I'm in Canada in my garage and another thing for low temperature testing we'll be running the GPU at full load as well as the CPU at full load just to simulate again a closed case environment where the system is being taxed and a worst case scenario for an actual real system that's actually been built so let's go ahead and take our low temperature so I'm taking the second hottest core which looks like it's at about 61 degrees again guys this isn't like the super scientific astray to do this so 61 and a 10 degree ambient there we go it looks like the temperatures haven't gone up since I did my H 100 I load test so here's H ATI and I've been saying for a long time and I was never quite sure how right I was that single rad like single 120-millimeter rad solutions dar not even close to a dual 120-millimeter rad so you can look at there's our there's our idle temperature it's around 29 on the second hottest core which gives us a difference between an H 109 aah Adi of like 15 almost 15 degrees under at idle so let's see how that gets changed under load all right so here's the H ad with one fan but I'm going to give the hid the benefit of two fans since it comes with two fans so we'll test it that way as well but it looks like our load temperature is 85 degrees and our intake is 10.1 well I was a little surprised at how much of a difference it made to switch to a push whoops 10 point oops n point 8 there we go to switch to push pull on the H Adi I guess it shouldn't surprise me that much because it is a thicker radiator I know on the H 100 it doesn't make that much of a difference but there you go our corrected temperatures at idle show about a 3 degree improvement over just a single pull fan and then at load it's about a 10 degree difference however it's still nowhere near the performance of the H 100 I or rather sorry hold on here's our corrected one see about 10 degrees Delta and then our difference between them and still 13 degrees versus NH 100 i well it's time to measure The Contender it should be noted guys that there is more to CPU cooling solutions than just performance I mean for example these course our coolers do come with the link software which allows you to set up things like fan curve profiles and cool stuff like that whereas I mean in my experiment I'm limiting the factors as much as possible so I'm keeping all the fans at a constant rpm but that's something you have to bear in mind also installation for the water coolers is much easier than these huge bulky air coolers however blingtastic they might look with their multiple fans on them to see the configuration still standard also with big air coolers you can see there's very little clearance between that low profile dim and the fan itself so you care you're really limited in terms of what memory you can install more wires actually not necessarily more wires especially with that USB cable that runs to the H I series so let's find out how this does Butera alright so idle temperatures are 26 degrees for our Silver Arrow extreme and ambience have gone up a little bit since we started here to eleven point one degrees well there you have it guys the H 100 I even with all other factors being the same is the ruler of the roof so our ambience are still eleven point one degrees and with the whoops sorry with the silver arrow extreme we are at 67 degrees whoops sorry about that we are at 67 degrees on the second hottest core so let's go ahead and fill out those temperatures and point 167 so you can see that it perf lips Freudian slip there so it's 67 degrees under load so that corrects to about 75 degrees under load so there you go so there's the H 100 I there's the H Adi with dual fans there is the silver arrow extreme with the same fan so you can see the silver a high-end air cooler so remember guys something like an NH D 14 will be quite similar to this in terms of performance destroy something like a thick a single radiator even in push-pull with highly optimized pressure optimized fans whereas the H 100 I especially under heavy loads really pulls away from those other see it idle these I mean even these two look very similar but you can see how under load the silver arrow extreme really pulls away now that really demonstrates that as the as the heat goes up so to speak the the men separate themselves from the boys and a test like this I mean even this is only a three degree difference that's why I don't like the way that Corsair does the packaging on these products at least the way they used to with the h100 where they would compare it ya see they still do this it's just goofy they compare it against an Intel box cooler showing well okay now they don't even try to show a proper temperature but they used to and it didn't show that much of a difference because it's not until you overclock that it really makes a big difference so thank you for checking out this video on Linus tech tips demonstrating that the H 100 I is the ruler of the roost don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos