Well, the CoolerMaster Hyper 411R might be the worst performing cooler we tested but it is far from being unacceptable in terms of performance in the stock tests, and for something you can pick up for under £20 we think that is an impressive feat.

You can also see that there are definitely some clear winners, and some results that were a little lower than we expected, but let's get into the performance overview of each specific cooler. Looking at the graph, you can really visualise the broad range of results we got by using Prime95 for the testing. RAM - Corsair Vengeance DDR4 16GB 3000Mhz (2x8)

The overclocked settings were 5.0GHz at 1.35v, in the results these tests are marked with 'OC'.Īll air coolers were installed in their manufacturer recommended specification, which was generally in a vertical orientation with the fan on the right side of the cooler (unless there was multiple fans, of course). We ran this test with both stock clocks and voltages, and also overclocked. This test is great because it had a very high range of results, and pushed the CPU pretty far with it's AVX based load. We did a load of different tests on each air cooler, but found Prime95 with the 'Blend' preset to be much better at comparing the coolers than any other tests so we shall use that to display our results. Since this is probably what you're all here to read, let's start with the performance numbers and comparison. We will me making several different comparisons between all the air coolers in the article, specifically performance, aesthetics, fans, mounting and noise levels. Here is a list of all the coolers we will be comparing:Īll the links above link directly to our specific reviews which contain more specific information and data, expanding on the points we mention in this article. All of these articles were in anticipation for this article where we will be comparing all of the air coolers we tested against each other.īefore we get going with the article, we'd like to thank CoolerMaster, Noctua and be quiet! for sending over the review samples of the coolers, without them we wouldn't be able to do stuff like this! Over the past few months we have written a load of different articles on as bunch of different air coolers, from the likes of CoolerMaster and Noctua.

Cooler master hyper 212 installation