Xigmatek HDT S1283

[cronic5]

I recently did a budget build for someone. The stock cooler with the AMD Phenom II X6 wasn't really satisfactory, so I went out to get a cooler that I know gives decent performance and is still pretty cheap, the Cooler Master Hyper 212. I didn't want to wait for shipping so I went out to buy it at a store and they were sold out. I instead went for the Xigmatek HDT S1283 figuring it would at least give better cooling than stock.

After popping it in, I was surprised to see the temps. Using the thermal paste that was included with the cooler just to see how it was stock, it came up with incredible numbers. I tested this in a bench rig because I thought it was too good. In the system it ended up going in, the idle temps were at 15C, and under load (using OCCT and Prime 95) they were at 35C. I've never used this cooler before, but it seems to do an excellent job.

Idle temps:

 

[Josh Weston]

Jesus, his room must be freezing. You sure you live in Texas and not, say, Alaska?

 

[dragoonk]

Hmm, incredible stock temps... But if the ambient temperature is higher than that, then the readings must be wrong. From my experience... and probably anyone's experience, a cpu never idles under ambient temp.

 

[BesiX]

I had the same "0.o effect" when I looked at the temps with my Nofen CR-100A in my 100% silent PC when it was still stock: the cores were running at ± 17°C... (Ambient temperature 10°C )
After a full night of idling it only went up to ± 22°C too .

 

[dragoonk]

Mine's also that cool when I turn it on... 13 C then rises up 10 degrees idle. Full load.. 45C with 1.56 V at almost 4 GHz but it's a 3 core... so...

 

[cronic5]

Ambient temp when this screenshot was taken was 20C. This is why I thought the temps were so strange. I thought the sensors on the MB were reporting temperature wrong, which is why I threw the cooler on a test bench I have, and the temps still hovered around 20C idle and 40C on full load. Test bench is an i5-2500k.

The case has good ventilation. Running in a Cooler Master HAF 912, with two 120mm in front, stock fan in back and none in the roof.

The cooler itself it running stock, with just one 120mm fan on it in push configuration. Never expected it to perform like this, seeing as how it wasn't my first choice, but I might end up using it more often.