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alright so we have the corsair h70 hooked up we've got the two fans blowing up full speed in a push-pull configuration it is quite loud as I mentioned before there you can see the updated Corsair cpu block / pump unit so I'm just coming around to this side so you can get a better look at it alright then we've got the the flexible hose barbs along with the rotary fittings that's the word I was looking for that will that will rotate according to where you want to mount your fan radiator unit now you're going to see performance it is quite a bit better than the advantage unit and the reason for that is because of just the basic laws of physics here compare the radiator size whoops ok they're compare the radiator size you can see the h70 radiator is about three times thicker than the Vantage radiator and it just comes down to the basics of how much surface area is there how much heat can you dissipate well there you go so that's why the advantage didn't get much of a benefit from two fans but the age 70 does because you actually need a lot more static pressure to push the air through such a thick radiator and get all that cooling potential out of it so as the last comparison I'm going to throw a decent high-end air cooler on here and see how that compares to the h70 as well as to the cool advantage I'm just dismantling the age 70 right now and I thought I'd actually give kulit major props for their for their mounting system which is so easy you just you just align the little bolt through on the top so you just align it with the line for which which mounting mechanism you need 1366 1157 775 and then they have three separate batch plates for all three and then they've got like these great thumb screws that you can use to bolt it on and the Corsair one while it's very secure and attached as well and all of that good stuff it's a little bit finicky you have to put it together you have to put these little plastic clips in then you have to thread the script screws through and then you get a like kind of position the whole thing in the right place and then you get to use a screwdriver it has thumbscrews you got to insert the little pegs in the back of the back plate it's not really very intuitive like I said once it's on it looks good and it's very secure but it could use a little bit of use of use ease abuse work alright so now we've got a knock to it nhu 12 p on the bench i'm using those same course our fans because i want this to be as much an apples-to-apples comparison as possible so you can see there I've got the end of course they're fun and down on the other side now what I want you to note first of all is the size so look at the density of the fins on there look at the density of the fins on the noctua look at the approximate physical sizes of the two units you can see they are quite similar now what you're about to see may shock you the NOC to a unit performs not as well as the age 70 all right so it's about five degrees higher than the age 70 but that is to be expected given that it is not optimized for high RPM fans it is actually optimized for low RPM fans so if we were to take a cooler which I probably should have done in retrospect that has a more densely packed fin arrangement we'd probably actually see similar performance to the age 70 now that's not to say that the age 70 doesn't have a place in the world because the reality of it is that coolers like the Vantage with their LCD screens they're programmable a wireless communication system for lights and other cooling devices in your system have a place they are they belong with people who are more worried about the features then the maximum possible overclocked coolers like the age 70 I mean really at five degrees better than this particular tower cool way that puts it right up there in the top of air coolers so you know that's an impressive feat in itself and in a nice compact package that allows you to a ship your system if you need to so if you're buying a system online the age 70 is a great choice because it's much less likely to come dislodged because it doesn't have as much weight hanging off the cpu socket and it also allows you to oh wait hold on i was gonna say something else right yeah it allows you to take your your cooling element so your your cooling radio later whether it's a radiator on a cpu heatsink or a radiator with water flowing through it and put it right at the back of the case where you can take nice fresh air and use that to cool it so you can get better cpu temperatures at the cost of slightly worse internal case temperatures so thank you for checking out my little review i'm actually not going to bother with the graph after all because i showed you guys the temperatures in fact here i'll even you know what here's how I'll do my graph NH dash you 12 p ok and then that one was but 73 281 so i'll show you guys the cooling performance that i had written down so you can see the vantage with its stock fan was a little bit higher than the Vantage with dual fans the age 70 is the big winner in terms of performance although it is quite expensive and then the nhu 12 p I believe that's the SE two or something like that was somewhere in between but you have the convenience of it just being an air cooler and just strapped to the cpu heatsink brackets CP mounting holes that's what i was looking for