Core i7 coolers test
Only three coolers came to us, one of which we already knew was the Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme. The other two manufacturers have not been found in Hungary so far, but perhaps this will change from now on if the customers and the PC Gear also wants to.
Before the tests - as I already wrote - Brocken seemed the favorite, but the measurements showed otherwise. As I promised, I will try to explain my own theory as to why this happened.
I already mentioned in the article that DirectPipe technology is not new, we may have encountered it with Xigmatek products as well. The solution proved to be very effective for a while, and then something happened that we didn’t understand at first. The smaller Xigmatek coolers were better than the big ones. The big ones now mean pieces with multiple tubes.
With Brocken aerator
At the time we tested the Xigmatek coolers, we measured a lot, watched the heating of the slats at the bottom and top, the temperature of the heat pipes at a minimum of three points per piece, and we came up with something. DirectPipe is very good as long as three pipes up to 8 millimeters in diameter are used. If there are four 6- or 8-millimeter tubes in the refrigerator, the problems begin.
The source of the trouble is that the end tubes are already "hanging" from the CPU cap, so they can't draw enough heat, probably the cooling process won't start in the tube with the same intensity as the ones in the middle. A word ends in a hundred, DirectPipe is good as long as all the pipes are completely above the cap, if that changes, the advantage is lost and even falls short of the solutions with traditional soles. It is also understandable why a traditional copper sole distributes heat better among many tubes, even if they are above the cap and even if they are not. Here I would recommend to our readers my writing on heat pipe technology, which is quite old now, but its content is still very topical. Refrigeration Academy - Heat Tube Cooling
Let's get back to the evaluation! The test was clearly won by Prolima’s TECH solution, Megahalems, followed by the good old Thermalright, and only finished third in the Brock.
However, there is another aspect, and that is price. In terms of refrigerators, the cheapest is Brocken with its HUF 12 price, followed by Thermalright (HUF 400), and the most expensive would be Prolima (HUF 14) if you did not have to buy the LGA 500 recorder for Thermalright, which you taste another 16 forints. So in the end, Brocken is by far the cheapest option and Thermalright is very expensive.
If we look at prices along with performance, Brocken became the clear winner in the recommended category, as although it lost in the test, its performance is not bad at all. If our wallet is thicker, we need Prolima, and what we don’t recommend now (this is the real surprise) is Thermalright, as it has a medium performance and a price tag drawn with a thick pencil.
Brocken Prolima
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