all right so we have the Corsair h70 hooked up we've got the two fans blowing
at full speed in a push pull configuration it is quite loud as I
mentioned before there you can see the updated Corsair CPU block SL pump unit
so I'm just coming around to this side so you can get a better look at it all
right and then we've got the uh the flexible hose barbs along with the uh
uh rotary fittings that's the word I was looking for then will uh that will
rotate according to where you want to mount your fan radiator unit now you're
going to see performance is quite a bit better than the Vantage unit and the
reason for that is because of just the
basic laws of physics um here compare
the radiator size whoops okay there
compare the radiator size you can see the h70 radiator is about three times
thicker than the Vantage radiator and it just comes down to the basics of how
much surface area is there how much heat can you dissipate well there you go so
that's why the Vantage didn't get much of a benefit from two fans but the h70
does because you actually need a lot more static pressure to push the air
through such a thick radiator and get all that cooling potential out of it so
as the last comparison I'm going to throw a decent high-end air cooler on
here and see how that compares to the h70 as well as to the cool
Advantage I'm just dismantling the h70 right now and I thought I'd actually
give kulet major props for their uh for
their mounting system which is so easy you just uh you just align the little um
bolt through on the top see you just align it with the line for which uh
which mounting mechanism you need 1366 1156 and 775 and then they have three
separate back plates for all three um and then they've got like these great
thumb screws that you can use to bolt it on and the coair one while it's very
secure and attaches well and all of that good stuff uh it's a little bit finicky
you have to put it together you have to put these little plastic Clips in then you have to thread the screws through
and then you got to like kind of position the whole thing in the right place and then you got to use a
screwdriver it has no thumb screws uh you got to insert the little pegs in the
back of the back plate it's not really very intuitive like I said once it's on
it looks good and it's very secure but um it could use a little bit of e of use
ease of use work all right so now we've got a nocta
nhu 12p on the bench I'm using those same Corsair fans because I want this to
be as much an Apples to Apples comparison as possible so you can see
there I've got the other cor font it down on the other side now what I want you to note first of all is the size so
look at the density of the fins on there look at the density of the fins on the
Noctua look at the approximate physical sizes of the two units you can see they
are quite similar now what you're about
to see may shock you the noct TOA unit
per performs not as well as the h70 all
right so it's about 5° higher than the h70 but that is to be expected given
that it is not optimized for high RPM
fans it is actually optimized for low RPM fans so if we were to take a cooler
which I probably should have done in retrospect that has a more densely
packed fin Arrangement we'd probably actually see similar performance to the
h70 now that's not to say that the h70 doesn't have a place in the world
because the reality of it is that that uh coolers like the vantage with their
LCD screens their programmable uh Wireless communication system for lights
and other cooling devices in your system have a place they are they belong with
people who are more worried about the features than the maximum possible
overclock uh coolers like the age 70 I
mean really at 5° better than this particular Tower cooler that puts it
right up there in the top of air coolers
so you know that's an impressive feet in itself and in a nice compact package
that allows you to a ship your system if you need to so if you're buying a system
online the h70 is a great choice because it's much less likely to come dislodged
because it doesn't have as much weight hanging off the CPU socket and it also
allows you to oh wait hold on I was going to say something else right yeah
it allows you to take your your cooling element so you're you're cooling
radiator whether it's a radiator on a CPU heat sink or a radiator with water
flow flowing through it and put it right at the back of the case where you can
take nice fresh air and use that to cool it so you can get better CPU
temperatures at the cost of slightly worse internal case temperatures so
thank you for checking out my little review I'm actually not going to bother with the graph after all because I
showed you guys the temperatures in fact here I'll even you know what here's how
I'll do my graph uh nh-
u2p okay and then that one was about 73
to 81 so I'll show you guys the cooling performance that I had written down so
you can see the vantage with its stock fan was a little bit higher than the
vantage with dual fans the h70 is the big winner in terms of performance
although it is quite expensive and then the nhu 12p I believe that's the se2 or
something like that um was somewhere in
between but you have the convenience of it just being an air cooler and just
strapped to the CPU heat sink um
brackets CPU mounting holes that's what I was looking for