Performance
For this review, I’ve deployed the new SilverStone Tundra Series TD03-Lite AIO CPU Cooler. If you would like to know more about this cooler and its performance, you can check out the full review here.
The performance at stock was pretty much what I expected. The premium grade products are rocking the lowest temperatures. Even the higher temperature results are still good. There’s really only a difference of 3c between the top and the bottom. If you’re running stock clocks on your CPU, I doubt you would know the difference between Artic Silver 5 and Thermal Grizzly.
Stock
Overclocked
Now things are really hotting up, literally. Between the big boys on the block, there’s really not much in it. I am happy to see that Thermal Grizzly is topping both of our charts. Albeit by a small margin. NT-H1 and GC-Extreme are neck and neck. Although I admit, there’s a margin of error to account for, they’re all very competitive.
Further down the chart, we’ve got a few other popular choices. While the 6c difference may not seem a lot between the top and bottom, that can be the difference between CPU thermal throttling, your fans spinning harder or an overclock failing.
Is Thermal Grizzly not meant for delids though?
TG Conductonaut for IHS-DIE connection
TG Kryonaut for IHS-heatsink connection
Not true.. You should use conductonaut even between IHS and heatsink but watch for Alu restrictions.. I just saw a video, man delidded his CPU (7700K), used conductonaut, then again between IHS and heatsink and VOILA, guess what – 70°C max!!! And he DID OVERCLOCK TO 4,9Ghz
Not neccesary
MINUS 70 degrees? Is this a joke or are you a troll? xD
Dawg, that’s a hyphen, not a minus. He’s saying 70c max.
I guess I don’t need to bother delidding then? I have a 4.9Ghz stable overclock on my 7700k with nothing more than a massive air cooler (bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 3).