GamerStorm Lucifer CPU Cooler Review

Performance

Performance is what really matters when it comes to a CPU cooler, sure aesthetics may play a big part in your choice of components, but the numbers always speak for themselves. At stock temperatures the Lucifer beat out literally everything else I’ve tested so far, even beating out the awesome Zalman Reserator 3 Max water cooling unit by a big margin.

Acoustic levels were incredible also, you can hear the fan ever so slightly from a foot away, but at this level its literally inaudible from a few feet away, and you’ll likely never hear it once its mounted inside a chassis.

Dialling up the clocks on our CPU is the really important test, and as you can see the Lucifer performed exceptionally well, which came as little surprise given that it can handle a max TDP of 300w, feature a large tower and a high performance fan. At idle it out performed everything else on our graph, and its load performance was only beaten by the Zalman by 1.5c and it was still 2.25c cooler than the nearest competitor, the Thermalright Macho.

Acoustics are another win for the Lucifer as the fan RPM picked up the noise levels barely went above ambient noise, with only a 2dBA increase over stock load acoustics, making this one of the quietest coolers we’ve ever tested, incredible!