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That’s true, plus a larger wiring harness, but with air coolers it becomes difficult to keep an i9 13900K below 100°C for example, my H170i LCD manages a load of ~290W for 10 minutes in Cinebench with an undervoltage of -0.06V. There are 6 Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC 140mm 3000rpm fans, so it is not quiet.
But I have to say that at a certain point the cooling performance would probably only make a small difference, at least one of the online tests (Kitguru?) with the standard fan setup has already shown that the highest speed does not bring any improvement.
I’ve been a fan of air coolers for years and this is actually my first water cooler as I’ve already seen the buzz for these CPUs. I have a slightly undersized Noctua U12S with two 3000RPM fans on an i7 3930K running at 4.4GHz up to 8 DRAM slots filled that I didn’t want to disturb, but outside of Prime95 the thing kept a lot of noise between 50-70 °C, mostly depending on the load, Prime95 (FPU stress) of course immediately shot up to 85°C.
These Noctua fans have not worn out even after years, while the Cooler Master case fan behind them (HAF.
Aside from the fact that air coolers can last almost forever and the fans are often easy to replace, in addition to the weight hanging from the motherboard, they often get in the way of achieving anything, especially on a device like a Noctua D15. Partly because of this awkwardness, I also decided to get an AIO.
However, with Corsair you have to make sure that the plug is firmly inserted into the Commander Core, because over time there were always random moments in which the cooling water temperature dropped and with it the fans, even to the point where they were almost permanently negative down to -45°C and constantly back and forth with a difference of several tens of degrees.
The software has never been Corsair’s strong point either, you can set fan curves for sensors other than the cooling water for the H170i LCD, but that stops working as soon as you lock the operating system, reboot the system or close the software, as it only still works Internally the coolant sensor can work on it and of course this cannot be controlled via the BIOS in the same way an air cooler can be controlled.
And you don’t really want to have Corsair iCUE active 24/7, those RGB and LCD gadgets are all well and good, but it uses a lot of CPU, causing the i9 13900K to suddenly hang between 50 and 60W instead of 35. 45W at idle. Also, when I thought about using the Corsair Dominators as a temporary solution for the temperature sensor (since it heats up comparatively quietly compared to the rest and therefore doesn’t get any fan spikes), the RAM sensors would sometimes break down. to 63°C (even without iCUE) or its RGB stopped working completely, resulting in the RAM not being recognized and requiring a power cycle, which meant the fan curve stopped working.
By the way, when iCUE is active, it of course controls the RGB, when you fully utilize the CPU it starts jerking like crazy and that doesn’t look good, the hardware mode for RGB seems to be smoother and works on both Cooler Master and Corsair. undisturbed.
I also have a Corsair AX1200i connected via Corsair Link, but that too occasionally fails, stopping the sensors from updating and therefore requiring a power cycle.
As for the H170i AIO, mine now seems to have some stripes on the bottom on cold boot that disappear shortly after, but it’s funny that the animations appear in reverse order like you suggested with the AIOs. have more complicated parts and also the circuit boards such as the pump seem to be quite delicate so it would be easy to play around with.
All in all a happy marriage with some flaws…
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