Performance
As you can see, the Ereboss has fairly high idle temperatures compared to the rest of the products we tested, sitting 5.8c above ambient, but it does seem about on par under load.
At idle the Ereboss fan is virtually silent (our ambient room noise is 38-39 bBA) and under load it is still barely a whisper.
The cooler favoured better when overclocked than it did at stock speeds, with a nice low CPU temp at idle and performance that was about on par with the Antec water cooler when under load.
When overclocked we only saw around 1dBA increase in fan levels, and even when at load it was still one of the quietest coolers we’ve ever tested and only 4dBA above ambient noise.
ETeknix has the worst reviewers. They are not picky enough to be handing out “awards.” Anyways. This is a HUGE CPU cooler and what do I want from a huge cooler? Good performance. Seriously, it’s not that difficult. Copper pipes, Aluminum fins, and good fan. What’s wrong with this CPU cooler? Besides the fact that it’s fat, ugly, a block that is going to mess with your ram or cables, and the fact that it’s just plain UGLY? The fan doesn’t fit the cooler, airflow is escaping at the top and bottom of the fins, and they just tried to copy Coolermaster, make it look cool, and did a horrible engineering the airflow. You have to focus the airflow through the aluminum fins to dissipate the heat the fins are spreading from the copper tubes. 30 pounds is like 50 dollars. Yes.. Let’s match it up with some weak ass CPU coolers and give it a “bang for buck” award despite the fact that NO ONE can dethrone a Hyper212 for bang/buck ratio. Stop giving your sponsors awards Eteknix..
We didn’t stack it up against weak coolers, we re-started our charts with new products to facilitate a new reviewer in the section of the site and will continue to add more coolers to the charts over the coming weeks, but if you actually read our methodology page you would have known that.
The numbers are the numbers and the Ereboss gives decent cooling performance, as well as superb acoustics for the price range. Style is subjective so you can’t tell me I don’t like the design, because I do.
I guess we should just stop reviewing all budget friendly coolers, or judging them on their own merits because the Hyper212 is good? And you think that good build quality, nice design, quiet performance, respectable cooling and a low price tag don’t justify a bang for buck award because of other another products performance in a past review? That would be like no one winning an Oscar for best actor because some guy already won it 30 years ago in your favourite film.
Also, just because a company sends us samples, that does not make them sponsors.
You would have better used your time by showing yourself out and closing the tab.
Very good reply ! Right on Peter ! 🙂
The heatsink itself looks like it might perform well. But that fan is garbage. You can’t get much static pressure from a fan that thin.
I’d be interested to see just how much better this cooler performs with a decent fan attached, and maybe with two in push pull.