Because most value-friends have only one chance to buy a heatsink when they are installed, it is impossible to buy them one by one and try to keep one of the best heatsinks. Therefore, word-of-mouth among netizens can only say “value†or “not worth†for a radiator, and cannot compare the entire radiator universe. So my own wish, which I promised three years ago, was to spend time and energy testing the common radiators to see who was nude. As a result of the late stage of lazy cancer procrastination, this plan took almost three years to complete.
Because some of the conclusions may offend vendors, I am very proud to say that the original 99 yuan level radiators tested are all JD.com and Taobao. They have shopping records and have no interest in transportation. I have been constantly helping people to accumulate machines for 3 years.
Details decide everythingThe entire test involved 35 heatsinks. It was an extremely large Project. I insisted on completing the case for six months. In order to control the space, I divided the heat into the first part: RMB 99 air cooling (the biggest selling heatsink set Don't), the second article: 12cm tower air-cooled (the final result is completely subversive I recognize the group, a lot of 200 yuan heat as 99 yuan), the third: under the pressure type and 120mm below the limit of 9cm air-cooled (This group is suitable for ITX), the fourth: 14cm tower radiator, fifth: integrated water-cooled radiator.
This article deals with 99 yuan air-cooled radiators, all 12cm single tower.
Kyushu Fengshen Xuanbing 400 Tower, 12025 Fan, Electroless, 4x6mm Heat Pipe, HDT Touch, Buckle Fin
Kyushu Fengshen (DEEPCOOL) Xuan Bing 400 CPU Radiator (Multi-platform/Support AM4/4 heat pipe/Intelligent temperature control/Blue light/12CM fan/With grease) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link Leveraging the colleagues' Xuan Bing 400 test
Scythe red rabbit STB120 tower type, 12025 fan, nickel plate heat pipe, 4x6mm heat pipe, HDT touch, buckle Fin
SCYTHE Red Rabbit STB120 CPU Radiator (support AMD, intel multi-platform / 4 heat pipe / 12cm temperature control red light fan) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link Jingdong purchase records
Cooler Master T400i Tower, 12025 Fan, Electroless, 4x6mm Heat Pipe, HDT Touch, Auxiliary Mounting Screw
Cooler Master T400i CPU Radiator (supports INTEL platform / 4 heat pipe / PWM temperature control / LED red fan / back lock buckle / touch heat pipe) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link Jingdong purchase records
Cairong B48 is a 9cm radiator, and the performance is far from the 99 yuan radiator. It is not in this group.
testing platformI think for a long time, with the upcoming elimination of the 2011 platform to test, no sense, because 99 yuan cooling is impossible to get X99, 5820K about FPU 4G 3200 four-channel full 200 yuan air-cooled 98 degrees, 4.3G 240 water-cooled 98 degrees. The 5820K entry X996C12T, even if it is 4.3G 1.3V daily overclocking of the salted fish system, the best finished product can be bought on the market to barely maintain heat dissipation, BDW-E 6800K will be hotter (postscript: After breaking the MicroCode microcode in April of 17th, the X99 motherboard that supports the Rendu Second Pulse supports the highest core frequency of the E5 v3 lock. The E5-2696 v3 holds 145 watts of TDP to lock the 12 core 3.8G, and the 18 cores all unlock the 3.2G. A good thermal test platform, but I have not completed 90% of the thermal test workload.
KBL/SKL 7700K measurement of heat does not make sense, one of which is that the well-known high-tech toothpaste leads to heat conduction without opening the cover, and now all over the summer have reported 7700K full-load direct thermal explosion, this is not really change the heat to solve the problem. The second reason is that the KBL/SKL thin, thin 0.83-mm-thick PCB substrate has vaguely condemned more than 1kg of radiators to death. Earlier than the KBL/SKL design of the owl D15/D15S, Limin HR-22 1.2kg weight can already be a good friend of the thousand Yuan Zx70 motherboard out of internal injuries. If all of my heat is measured, it is estimated that the Skylake 6700K and Z170 motherboards have not been tested.
Haswell's substrate thickness is very suitable for testing, but there is a condition that the thermal contact of the heat pipe must be crossed with the core in order to have the best heat dissipation effect. Otherwise, only two heat pipes are in contact, and any radiator will seriously deteriorate. This determines that most of the 99 yuan radiator only the fan blowing upward toward the chassis to the best cooling, plus IHS high-tech silicone grease interference, and Haswell is a past style, I can only say to buy just use it.
The Ryzen Ryzen is a good choice for testing heat, brazing, heat is relatively small, 3.8G only about 95 watts of power consumption. However, Ruilong is too new. In order to unify the data, I must push all the previous tests back to retest, so in the end I chose the i5-2500+ Asus P8Z77-V as the test platform. I5-2500 brazes the heat conduction ability to be strong, does not have the very obvious heat radiation directivity, the power consumption of 3.8G, 114 watts after quadrupling is not too high, not too low. The most important thing is that I invested more than half a year in this evaluation. As a purely voluntary labor, I have no courage and time to retest all the data on the latest Ryzen platform.
However, I reviewed the owls U9S, U12S, D15S, Limin 120E, and CoolBlow B240 on the Ryzen 1700. These can find the thermal performance of the AM4 fasteners and tested again, and the results are consistent with the results of the i5-2500+Z77 test.
Test platform configurationIntel Core i5-2500 @ 3.8~4.1G salted fish as long as 460!
ASUS P8Z77-V motherboard testing heat dissipation must be 8pin CPU + large VRM power supply, otherwise a long time full load without VRM heat dissipation will boooom. This is the cheapest Z77+8pin+ large VRM salted fish washed plate as long as 438, as long as 438, as long as 438
Cooler Extreme T20 bare metal test stand, using bare rack test to avoid the interference of chassis air duct on the heat dissipation results.
Leadtek Quadro K600 1G DDR3 memory GT720 performance, as long as 300 yuan shipping salted fish, a little fan a little noisy, when the noise test will be specifically unplug the HD2000 nuclear display.
Yu Xin Core DDR3 1600 8Gx2 memory salted fish as long as 480 free shipping. The old antiques above are not connected with shopping cards.
Yinxin SX500-LG gold power supply 15 years 618 Jingdong 100-20 20% discount on the purchase, as long as 449 - it guarantees that the test noise basically does not interfere with the results, because the low temperature and low load stalled.
SilverStone is rated 500W SX500-LG SFX-L power supply (80PLUS Gold / active PFC / soft flat module line) 629 yuan mute SFX-L boutique small SFX power supply. Jingdong direct link Later, the Yinxin SX500-LG was sold by my salted fish. (The test cycle lasted for six months. The SFX-L power supply, which I always felt didn't fit well into an ITX chassis (too long to top the video card), was not a good SFX, so I was impulsive. ......), replaced by XFX X-750, also supports fan stall, thermal test will not affect the noise test results.
XFX rated 750W XTR750 power supply (80PLUS gold / full module / 5-year warranty / support back line) 899 yuan low load quiet stop Jingdong direct link test settings Monolithic use of Artic Cooling MX4 silicone grease, because cheap big tube, good coating, coated with no effect. UEFI starts, quadruple frequency benefit is enabled, quad-core full load 3.8G, 3C 39x, 2C 40x, 1C 41x, automatic voltage Auto, XMP enable DDR3 1600 C9, energy saving, EIST, C1E, Windows Power Management Options: balance.
Windows 10th Anniversary Edition 1607 (The project cycle is too long and the last half is replaced with 1703)
testing software:
Fan speed control - ASUS AI Suite II, God-like thermal testing software. Comparable to the 300-piece fan PWM governor.
AIDA64 single hook FPU, air-cooled preheating roasting machine for 10 minutes, water cooling preheat roasting machine for 25 minutes, clear the average, wait 5 minutes to record the AIDA64CPU Core + Package average temperature.
Because the test object has a lot of weak heat sinks, such as Intel original fan. Therefore, the test environment temperature was set at a relatively low temperature of 23 degrees. Each thermal test uses an electronic thermometer to measure room temperature, and corrects for CPU Core average temperature and real-time room temperature deviations of 23 degrees.
Cooling fan noise:The noise data I measured was a quantified data called SPL in units of dBA, which was interpreted as noise pressure in the human hearing model. I think we can visualize the level of noise
The 40dBA is completely silent and the breath can be heard clearly.
43dBA can hear 2.5-inch mechanical hard disk read and write.
45dBA is equivalent to 1 meter outside the electric fan to open 2nd gear, pressing his own finger joints light ring
48dBA is equivalent to the same room inverter refrigerator compressor start, 3.5-inch 7200 rpm hard drive in reading and writing
53dBA is equivalent to someone watching TV in the same room. Really, I watched the volume when watching the old drama, "The List."
55dBA recommends opening a loud speaker volume or you will be uncomfortable.
58dBA is equivalent to a mechanical keyboard percussion on a tea shaft (with a steel plate). If this noise is persistent, tinnitus will occur for more than half an hour.
60dBA is equivalent to a green park on the street. It is difficult to ignore the noise even if you play the game sound. It is recommended to bring headphones.
65dBA is equivalent to the green axis (with steel plate) mechanical keyboard knock.
68dBA tinnitus in more than 10 minutes, people will feel extremely arrogant
The 70dBA is equivalent to the noise peak at the roadside intersection, and long-term exposure to this noise can damage hearing.
90dBA is equivalent to mud engineering whistle
Twice! Double Check! This is part of my overall project that I am more confident of, because the long test results have some subversive achievements in heat dissipation. Simply put, it is not the same as the original imagined heat dissipation performance. I have done as much as possible review, review methods may be but not limited to - replace the fan to confirm the impact of the original fan performance (detected by some of the original cooling fan fan temperature than the same specifications of the difference between the 2 to 4 degrees); check the grease Print marks to ensure full contact with the CPU top cover (common problem is too little silicone grease, on the contrary not much effect of grease coating, grease coating will affect the 2.5 to 3 degrees); repeat test results, compare the first One thermal test result deviation (The practice shows that the average temperature deviation of multiple thermal retests is less than 0.5 degrees, indicating that the test is very reliable and the performance ranking is repeatable.)
This is just a list of data in no particular order, and the conclusion article will be followed by a final word.
experience feelingsNo.0 Intel original copper fan
Talk about CPU heat dissipation can not be less this cooling "benchmark." OEM manufacturers include Foxconn, Delta and AVC. However, after weighing electronic scales, it was shown that the most abundant material was Intel's original copper core fan.
The reason is that Delta's original Intel fan copper core is the heaviest.
Foxconn produces the most lightweight copper fans.
The maximum speed 2000 drill, the minimum speed of 1000.
At room temperature 15.5 degrees, it takes only 3 minutes for the i5-2500 3.8G AIDA64 FPU roast to reach a temperature of 97 degrees. After 3 and a half minutes the CPU protection is down-converted.
Simply stated: This Intel original copper core radiator can only be used by Celeron and overclocked Pentium and i3. The i5 is not overclockable, so Intel has completely cancelled the boxed i7/i5 with K. Comes with this Intel copper core radiator. And like Xuanbing 400, this nylon buckle will basically be cut off after 2 to 3 years. as the picture shows:
Kyushu Fengshen (DEEPCOOL) Xuan Bing 400 CPU Radiator (Multi-platform/Support AM4/4 heat pipe/Intelligent temperature control/Blue light/12CM fan/With grease) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link 
With colleagues in the office Jingdong to buy Gigabyte B150MD3H motherboard gift, I borrowed to open a test. Afterwards, because of the subversion of sensory performance, a second review was conducted and the results were better than the first -1.5 degrees.
Kyushu Fengshen, Xuanbing 400, also known as "anti-human 400", 99 yuan of national cooling!
Domestic (in the sales) in the earliest explosion of four heat pipe 99 yuan 12cm tower radiator, (I have not been in the physical store for 12 years, went to Zhongguancun straight to the top B1 repair camera, so the physical store standard overclocking what For me there is no existence, recently overclocking three actually already listed on the A-shares, really can not be underestimated ah)
Anti-human 400, naturally named after the anti-human plastic buckle, nylon material is easy to aging, use 2 to 3 years after the demolition easily damaged, so named "anti-human 400"
Plastic buckles are fitted for use. Do not disassemble them. - The following pictures are collected from the network
The direct contact of the four heat pipes is not simply arranged in a straight line. The staggered layout can help improve the heat transfer performance from the heat pipe to the fins. However, from the shape of the Transformers, it is assumed that this heat pipe structure with the same direction as the wind has not yet been optimized.
Heat pipe touch this design is mixed, it can be sure that it is the lowest cost, it has the lowest cost, it has the lowest cost! Therefore, manufacturers of low-end products are love to use.
Xuanbing 400 fan speed 800 ~ 1400 rpm.
PWM 4pin speed regulation.
At the time of the test, the room temperature was 23.3°C and the end was 23°C. Why did you choose to measure heat in winter? This is a reason - because now measured Intel cooling fan / 125mm 9cm small tower / most of the push-type heat dissipation in the 1000rpm speed baking machine will be hot explosion!
Screenshots of the original data - slightly, very boring, not clear.
ASUS motherboard CPU 75 degrees forced the fan to full speed, so the results will be invalid, so you must choose a weakest heat 1000rpm can be less than 75 degrees season, no doubt, is the most suitable winter.
Measurement of fan noise, distance 30cm, recording from 800rpm to full speed, record noise volume every 200rpm.
This noise is measured casually, and it is impossible to be rigorous because I did not use "quiet room". I wondered once that I would like to use 2020 aluminum alloy profiles to build a 1.1-meter-size sealed box, plus 10cm thick sound-absorbing cotton material inside. There are 1m3 space to throw the host and noise meter, and then pull the cable out of the mouse and keyboard peripherals operating test, the minimum investment of 500 yuan, the worst is still occupying 1 cubic meter of home space! So I didn't do it...
SCYTHE Red Rabbit STB120 CPU Radiator (support AMD, intel multi-platform / 4 heat pipe / 12cm temperature control red light fan) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link The Big Skull Red Rabbit STB120 is a popular 99 yuan cooling device in the past six months.
The all-metal 115x fastener is better known as the Anti-Human 400 Kyushu Aeolus Ice 400.
Like most 99 yuan radiators, HDT heat pipes are used for direct contact.
Heat pipe nickel plating is not easy to leave fingerprints rust, heat dissipation performance with Kyushu Fengshen Xuan ice 400 flat.
But its biggest highlight is not here, but its original fan, its fan PWM speed range, the minimum can reach 500rpm speed, the maximum maximum noise of 1400rpm is only 41.5dB, which means that the fan is almost unattainable at full speed. s level.
Nickel-plated 4 heat pipes were designed in a straight line. The final test results showed that the heat dissipation efficiency of this structure is also very high.
At the time of the launch, a small tube of MX4 2g grease was also presented. The price/performance ratio was 99 yuan.
Later, I gave Dad an opportunity to install another brush in Jingdong. As a result, MX4 silicone grease was not delivered.
Red Rabbit STB120 is more sincere than Xuan Bing 400. Although it is a plastic backplane, this heat dissipation is only 422g very light.
This price really did not see the bottom of the copper, are all HDT heat pipe touch.
Machine effect
Fan speed curve
Test environment temperature
Thermal efficiency test
Well, Aunt Zhang’s 600px thumbnail processing is destined to you still can't see the data.
The noise of the original fan is very low, and the air volume at 600 rpm is also very low, almost the effect of Fanless's silent operation, and the air volume at 800 rpm is normal.
It can be said that the noise of the fan at the highest speed of the whole process is weak.
Cooler Master T400i CPU Radiator (supports INTEL platform / 4 heat pipe / PWM temperature control / LED red fan / back lock buckle / touch the heat pipe) 99 yuan Jingdong direct link 
Cool cold T400i's buckle with the same structure as the red knife horse rabbit STB120. Plastic back plate, four large studs more sufficient material. However, the heat pipe is not plated with nickel.
Xuan Bing 400 heat dissipation body weight than the large sickle red rabbit STB120 also weighed 85g.
Machine effect
I was lazy. Here I took a fan test with a cool T400 Pro. Cool T400 Pro data see another group 12cm thermal test.
Fan speed curve
Test environment temperature
The thermometer forgot to enter...
Thermal efficiency test
Charting
Fan noise test
Fan noise test results, Cooler Master Radiator fan I always think that the wind cut noise is short board, higher than the average of the peers.
The value of 99 yuan tower cooling is:
The best value for money, performance, and even the following are committed to surpass some of the popular 199 radiators.
Can deal with most mainstream processors that are not overclocking daily silent frequency. Even mainstream processors below 4G are not under pressure.
Excellent motherboard and memory compatibility, will not block the memory will not block the video card will not block the power supply.
The limitation of 99 yuan tower heat dissipation lies in:
Does not generally support "HEDT" fever desktop platform, that is, X58, X79, X99, and the future of X299, Naples.
Overclocking and default frequency of more than 4G fever platform is still strenuous, the temperature is likely to exceed 75 °C.
2 pictures total test data
From the heat-dissipation performance curve, the scythe red rabbit horse STB120 and Xuan Bing 400's heat dissipation performance is quite, and Cooler Master T400i is obviously inferior, although one plus fan's Cooler Master Extreme T400 Pro heat dissipation performance caught up with the first two 99 yuan Radiator, but because the product pricing Cooler Extreme T400 Pro up to 199~219, to achieve the price of 199 yuan cooling - 99 yuan cooling performance (I risked the manufacturers to pull me into the blacklist of the risk of telling the truth what).
According to the noise curve, the STB120 fan is the quietest among the razorblade horses. The 600-1400rpm full-speed range does not exceed 41.5dB. The Kyushu Fengshen Xuanbing 400 has the highest noise level to 43dB. Cooler Master T400i single fan noise is 1 decibel higher than the speed of the mysterious ice 400.
With regard to individual differences: the STB120 of the Scorpion Knife Red Horse bought 2 before and after, and the temperature difference was 1.5°C.
The conclusion is not recommended, so as not to advertise the suspect.
- Cooming soon -
Series II: 12cm single tower air-cooled horizontal evaluation, from 999 yuan to 199 yuan owl U12S are included, this group is really subversive results ... ..., but I repeatedly tested 2 times, the results no objection.
The second batch of test objects included a number of “noble†air-cooled radiators: Kyushu Fengshen Xuan Bing 400, Cooler Master T400i, Scythe Red Rabbit STB120, Cooler Supreme T400 Pro, Cooler Supreme TPC-812, Owl U12S, Chasing The wind TC12DX, Limin U120E, mining Melalems Transformers red (limited edition) version (you have seen a limited edition after three years still selling it?), Limin U120E True Copper pure copper only for collection, not involved in the test.
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