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Ice Tower Low Profile Cooler - Test Results #54

Closed leonahess closed 4 years ago

leonahess commented 4 years ago

Hey there, I did a bunch of tests using the Ice Tower Low Profile version Cooler. IceTowerResults.zip

Ice Tower Ice Tower with Noctua

I did tests without the Fan, with the Fan and also swapped the included Fan for a Noctua Fan. I also tested the Overclocking capabilities of this cooler.

For the Overclocks I used these settings:

Frequency overvolt level
1500 0
1750 2
2000 4
2147 6

Firmware:

BOOTLOADER: up-to-date
CURRENT: Tue 10 Sep 10:41:50 UTC 2019 (1568112110)
 LATEST: Tue 10 Sep 10:41:50 UTC 2019 (1568112110)
VL805: up-to-date
CURRENT: 000137ab
 LATEST: 000137ab

all

First of looking at the passive capabilities, you can see that Even a hefty overclock to 2147MHz is doable, though I am not quite sure if it has stabilised in 5 minutes. no_fan

Then comparing the 2 used fans one can see that the Noctua is about 1-2 °C cooler but I think it also spins faster. fan_15 fan_175

Then here is a graph with all the results with the Noctua fan: noctua

And lastly I swapped the included thermal pad for some thermal grease which especially gave a big boost in performance for the 2.147GHz overclock. paste1500 paste2147

I am not sure how much of this you would want to include in README?

nschloe commented 4 years ago

Thanks, I've included some data in the main readme. Thanks in particular for the stock data, this had been sorely missing for a while!

AmirulAndalib commented 1 year ago

out

Overvoltage 10

2321mhz cpu, 770mhz gpu