Yup, that's true. For the price and for silence in a HTPC, I would probably buy something like the Noctua NH-U9B SE2 or one of the Zalman low profile top down coolers.
Nofan CR-95C IcePipe 95W Fanless CPU Cooler Review
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Yup, that's true. For the price and for silence in a HTPC, I would probably buy something like the Noctua NH-U9B SE2 or one of the Zalman low profile top down coolers.
Earthmonger
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People are complaining about the price, but it's only 20 quid more than an H100. What is that, ten cans of Monster?
Calibretto
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The level of attention this thing is getting is surprising me.
I realize that this is a nice piece of hardware, but this isn't the first time we've seen quality passive performance from a good heatsink.
And fuck yeah it's overpriced, but where the hell else you gonna go if you want your pc to STFU
I realize that this is a nice piece of hardware, but this isn't the first time we've seen quality passive performance from a good heatsink.
And fuck yeah it's overpriced, but where the hell else you gonna go if you want your pc to STFU
silenthill
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This has made me think of building a whole passive new pc, it will be great to have a office pc with a db of 0.
sheroo
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What case would you put it in?
silenthill
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I be using the Inwin Dragon Rider, lots of ventilation because I won't be using any case fans also looking for a passive GPU, so any suggestion ?
sheroo
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If you must go passive there is the Gigabyte Silent Cell 6770 but for about the same money you can get a 6790 which is meant to perform much better. You really do pay a premium for the fancy cooler on the Gigabyte card.
silenthill
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If you have a side window, your PC will look like a washing machine.
i likes
just fill the rest of the pc with watercooling (gpu, ram, chipsets etc) and it will complete the look
hey guys, i think the graph is a little messed up. It says the average is higher than both the Delta AND the Idle. I think the Delta temp needs to be switched with average. Just throwin that out there for ya
The heck you say... the temperature is never colder than ambient for air cooling, so Average > Ambient. Delta = Average - Ambient by definition, so yes, numerically Average should be greater if Ambient is positive. Don't know what graph you're looking at to get 'Idle', but the one in the main review looks perfectly consistent.
But it makes no sense to compare Delta to either Average or Ambient anyway, because the latter are actual temperatures while Delta is a relative difference. If for some reason TTL wanted to use kelvin (or gods forbid, rankine) scale, the first entry might have looked like:
Delta: 57.25, Avg: 351.40, Ambient: 294.15
And still it's the Delta that's directly indicative of the cooling ability of the heatsink.
totesmagotes
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I use my computer for gaming, media, and work, and I can't stand PC noise (especially when I'm using it for work), so I'm strongly consider getting this because my CPU is where the majority of my PC's noise is coming from. I am concerned about the cost however, and also the fact that I'd have to remove it just to replace my RAM, and for all I know, I might take it out of the box and find that it doesn't fit.
