There is a decade-year-old war between both of these coolers that which one is better. Liquid or Air Cooler: This is one of the most confusing things as users can’t decide either they need a liquid or an air cooler. If the cooler handles the heat generated by the processor, you can do a little bit of overclocking, but if it doesn’t, it will result in thermal throttling and will ruin your gaming experience. The TDP is also known as Thermal design power, and it’s the maximum heat that a processor produces at its peak performance, and you can easily check it out on the CPU box or the manufacturer’s website. TDP: The first thing you need to look at while buying a CPU cooler is the TDP of the processor and check what TDP that cooler can handle. There is a buying guide that you can check, and it will help you pick up a cooler as you will know what product will be best for your build. Also, even after checking all these CPU coolers, you still can’t decide which one is best for you. Intel again bought a new chipset, and these processors are not going to work with older chipsets. The base clock of this processor is 3.60 GHz, while the boost clock of this CPU is 5 GHz which you can easily achieve with a potent CPU cooler. The Core i7 11700K is eight cores and sixteen threads processor with hyper-threading enabled. To reduce thermal throttling, you need some excellent aftermarket cooling solutions, and there are some of the best CPU Cooler for i7 11700K (we also have for i5 9600K here) that you can consider in 2021.
#Hyper 212 evo install i9 9900k series
Still, the PCIe lanes (see also how many PCIe lanes does M.2 slot use here) problem is available on the Intel 500 series of motherboards, and their chipset lacks its lanes but shares the CPU lanes. These processors give AMD counterparts a tough time and provide much identical or even better performance for a great price. Keep in mind these calculations are provided for demonstration purposes only and may not reflect the actual lab tested C/W rating, but we're pretty close.Intel released their Rocket Lake processors in early 2021, and these processors ensure no bottlenecking with the Nvidia RTX-30 series of graphics cards. I guess they don’t make them like they used to. The one degree drop seems like a fluke but was repeated three times in a row and was within an acceptable range. What was really amazing was watching the classic Hyper 212 handle the Core i9 with the same ease as the never RGB Black Edition.
The CPU fan was running close to 100% and clearly working for its money. (Ryzen, LGA 2011 etc.) When looking at raw temperatures the 53c load temps at the default speed is about what I would expect however 70c at 5.2Ghz is getting up there. Of course if the Hyper 212 can handle a Core i9 9900k it also means it can handle any other CPU around the 130w range. (aka not good for overclocking)Īs the charts show we have a heatsink that can clearly handle a Core i9 9900k despite the logic of using a “budget” cooler on a $500USD processor. These numbers can be used to determine heat capacity, the larger the difference the less efficient the heatsink is. The resulting C/W number is used to rate how efficient a heatsink or waterblock is based on the given heat load.
This is why we normally only apply 85% of the total wattage output to our heat calculations. Since this is a real world testing method we need to take into consideration real world variables and estimate tolerances. In our heatsink and waterblock tests we don't really focus on overall load temperatures but rather how well the product can remove heat given a specified heat load.