The Best Fanless CPU Cooler Showdown
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 เม.ย. 2020
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What is the best fanless CPU cooler? I did a direct comparison of the four most widely available fanless CPU coolers. Included were the Arctic Alpine 12 Passive, NoFan CR-80EH, SilverStone HE02, and the NoFan CR-95C. I tested the four coolers in the same system at various power levels to see how each cooler does under the same conditions. Two different CPUs were used, the Intel i5-9400 and the i9-9900. I fired up Windows 10 and ran Prime95’s torture test with small FFTs for half an hour during each run. The test system included an ASRock H370 Pro4 motherboard installed in a Fractal Design Meshify C case. The case was stripped down, all fans, drive bays, and dust filters removed for optimal natural passive airflow.
Linear trendlines were added to the data, and formulas for stressed core temperatures were determined. If we use these formulas to calculate the theoretical maximum CPU power uses for each cooler, assuming an ambient room temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and maximum core temperatures of 100 degrees, we get 58 watts for the Arctic Alpine 12, 81 watts for the NoFan CR-80EH, 113 watts for the SilverStone HE02, and 126 watts for the NoFan CR-95C.
Available for sale are fully silent computers, built with no moving parts. The computers utilize passive heatsinks to dissipate the heat into the air. A variety of models are available with a variety of latest generation processors and SSD storage options. These PCs are great for general use or as home theater PCs. They have zero fans, zero spinning disks, and therefore zero noise! They are available at the link above. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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your calm, relaxed voice does match the silent PC idea well
Thank you for making the chart and text all the same color as the graphs. Helped keep track of everything. Hope to see more of your videos
Great review. Thank you very much!
For those curious: Nofan CR-100A scores about 5-6C lower temps compared to Nofan CR-95C. I tested with i5 2500k.
Do you still have the CR-100A? I'm trying to find one.
Excellent & thorough review! Thank you.
Wow amazing work
The best video about passive cooling. Thank you!
Sucks that a lot of this coolers are out of stock nowadays. Many have reached end of production, so we have to search in the used market.
Excellent video
Proper review. Hat off.
Have been looking at 3 out of 4 of these coolers for a future 3900 (non-X) build! thank you for doing this review of all 3, it's extremely helpful! :D
I genuinely hope you did not go through with that buddy
@@ashthegeek7400 I haven't yet, if the overall tdp of the 3900 OEM CPU is 65w the nofan cooler should work fine :) will update this comment thread to report outcomes in future
Updates?
@@gustlerjamespuno8889 even undervolted, the 3900 pulls-in 100W+ of power which isn't possible to be used with the NoFan CR-80. Waiting patiently for the Noctua fanless Cooler to see how it is compared to the competition :)/
Great video! Easy to watch and listen. Thank you. And greetings to cat at 1:26 :)
dang, if you showed me them all without the results i'd 100% expect the alpine 12 to perform the worst lol, especially considering its price
Thanks very much for this video and the testing, Extreme lot of testing! Great job!
I was looking for a case to put my Nofan CR-80EH in, when I came across your channel. I was afraid that the Nofan couldn't cool my I7 8700 enough. But since I got a I3 8300 and your previous test showed that a I3 9100 gets hotter than a I9 9900, I feel confident that its going to be ok.
It all depends on the power limits and the CPU's thermal interface. The i3 unfortunately has worse thermal performance because it uses thermal paste under the IHS instead of solder. But all of Intel's 8th generation CPUs use paste, so the 8700 also won't do much better. Intel started using solder with their 9th generation (i7-9700 and higher).
@@fullysilentpcs Thanks! Thats some relevant information! Since I've got all the hardware I'm just gonna try it out. I've also just got my hands on a used Silverstone Raven RVX01 case. So the heat can go it's natural way.
I think that these coolers are designed to work with some air moving through the case.
That helps a lot, of course ^^
Great testing! I have a home theater PC with lower power needs and an oversized 150w TDP fan cooler and I just removed the fan since its so oversized for the use, it runs between 35C- 60C fanless, got to wonder if other large fan coolers something like the Noctua nh-d15 would do really well with no fan especially if mounted where the center hole can be pointed up and the heat can rise creating some natural air velocity up the middle. Noctua NH-P1 also came out recently that is a passive solution with wider air holes and better stacking effect with less air resistance.
I have put my NH-D15 without fans on a Core i7 3770K (3,5 GHz base / 3,9 GHz boost) and it works perfectly fine if you have a nice case and you keep it stock (no OC). Best advice is to undervolt it, that gives even better results with gains between -6°C and -8°C at various loads, without killing the stock performance a lot. This is what I did when I got my new computer, I repurposed my old trusty 3770K for a NAS/media/BOINC platform, and it works really fine (BOINC is used only in GPU intensive tasks, of course ^^).
Thanks for such excellent review. It seems that some of those cooler could benefit from having a low rpm fan and still be almost silent with the extra performance they need for current many cores cpus.
I mean... case fan?
I've got a Nofan CR-80EH with a I3 8300 in a Coolermaster Elite 130 case. Last summer when it the ambient temp. came above 35C the cpu started to heat up above 70C. I had to put the case fan on. A 120mm and with 400 rpm the cpu came around 60C. So yes almost silent.
@@johanhoevink4050 I included 4 low rpm 12mm fans on a CoolerMaster Q300L (2 intake 2 exhaust), all dust filters on, is a gaming rig on TV rack, I can't notice any sound from it and temps are similar (65C on load, i7-4790k). Reaches 75C easy with just one exhaust fan. The case fans have rubber pads for the screws to dump vibrations.
Excellent
I have a I7 880 first gen I7 what is a good passive cooler for that.
Good effort. Thank you.
Have you done any work with cowling? The HE02 looks like the ideal candidate to try to get a stack effect going.
By the way, apparently the HE02 is discontinued.
is cr95c compartible with i9-10900?
Does Silverstone have any plan to offer an AM5 mounting kit? The AM4 kit doesn't work in AM5.
As much as I like passive coolers...there is simply no satisfaction to them 😅
I love my Gentle Typhoons though it sucks they don't make other sizes.
I'm really thinking the CR-80 will fit my use case, gaming on a 13th gen i3 in a case where the mobo is horizontal mount with huge cross flow due to fore and aft case fans.
Sir, did you test the copper, pearl black, or nickel version, of the CR-95C? Thank you
I have enjoyed the zalman fx 70 as a cooling solution on my a10-7850k and would like to use the fx 70 on a new desktop. I want to use the APU for HTPC use with emulation(dolphin,rpcs3) as a primary goal? Would the Arctic alpine be adequate for cooling the APU in this application? Or should I go bigger? I like the look of the tall black fins. Thanks for the current video on fanless cooling, not much change since i bought the fx70.
zalman recently released an am4 adapter if you can find one
Hi, I like your channel. have u tested the different between fully silent PC and the same PC with a fixed rotation speed silent fan?
Last year I build a silent PC with only one case fan(noctua NF-A14 ULN with supplied ULN adapter installed )
It seems the air flow is better than “no fan” option and the noise is barely noticeable.
Thanks
Thanks man. I am trying build a silent computer and at the same time a one with a reasonable cooling capacity. Your recommendation sounds promising.
Please, Are the cr95c or cr-80 made with copper rods or copper tubes filled with liquid? Thank you
Considering it cost 1/4 in the video, and for my pricing 1/9 of the bogan cr-80 I'm surprised it did okay 😁
Copper tubes filled with a very small amount of liquid (aka heatpipes).
Test AMD chips! 😃
How would these work with case fans? 🤔
You look at up to 15% temperature drop with slow air flow.
yes uselfull 💗💗💗
thank you so much
that what i am looking for
i9 10900t 10 cors TDP 35
with NoFan C80EH
that what i can found in england UK
Thank you agian for you
👍
I've been using Nofan CR-80 and i7 8700 (Non K) since 2017 and I couldn't feel any noise at all. The latest R9 5900X and
Noctua NH-D15 was combined, but there is some noise. But what is surprising is that the 8700 feels better than the 5900x. Why?
Any chance of comparing the new Noctua NH-P1 to your fanless collection?
Yes, coming soon. I can tell you already that it tops the list.
@@fullysilentpcs Thanks for the quick response. Looking forward to your review, thanks again.
@@Pabula its there I guess...
What is that case at 0:36?
Thermaltake P1
@@fullysilentpcs Thanks! I dreamed about a case like this nearly 20 years ago. First time I've seen anyone do it. It's a bit big and heavy for my liking, as I won't be using active cooling or a graphics card. I would've used acrylic, but I guess the glass gives it a premium feeling.
now put a big fan in the middle to get an OP heatsink
Ahh. Wont fit...
Nice comparison, but maybe talk less mono tone, to keep people engaged, I sort of lost you sometimes
nobody cares about intel chips anymore, give us the Ryzens
I'm no longer into pc builds for many years now, could You please tell me why the Ryzens are better than an i5 and i7s?
@@RK1FX Ryzen CPU's are way better value currently
@@RK1FX only if you dont care about intel vulnerability.
FX way better value, less power hungry, and better temps
Ryzen are not better, just cheaper