Typically, a procesorkoeler equipped with a fan. A small number of manufacturers focuses entirely on the constructing of heat sinks as effectively as possible – a fan you have to add. Hardware.info tested 7 of these cooling towers.
Else than you'd expect are coolers without fan not cheaper than instances that here already fitted. The cheapest cooler in this test costs an average of 39 euro. In addition, not to mention the cost for one or more fans. This pricing makes clear that these products are aimed at the top of the market, where more demanding users which want to pay for the best cooling performance (air). Also the small number of providers of this type of product is indicative: in this test we find two different brands, as stated in a total of seven products. The message: these companies submit to an optimal designed heat sink and let the user the freedom for which he/she chooses fans. This CPU-cooler for test we use one or two Scythe Gentle Typhoon 12 cm fans. The test is performed with the famous hardware.info test set-up for CPU coolers, consisting of an adjustable power resistance, which allows reproducible taxes and heat dissipation are. The sound production, we tested in a soundproof box – although all coolers with same fans are tested, the construction of the cooling body greatly affects the sound production, as will be seen.
