The Corsair H150i Pro RGB AIO Cooler Review: The Quiet Giant
by E. Fylladitakis on August 16, 2018 8:00 AM ESTTesting Results, Low Fan Speed
Using a PWM voltage regulator, we reduced the speed of the fans manually down to half their rated speed, which is 800 RPM. The pump was also connected on the same power source, functioning properly at this low speed setting.
| Core Temperature, Constant Thermal Load (Low Fan Speed) |
The Corsair H150i Pro RGB is doing much better in this test, managing to almost match the thermal performance of larger (and much more expensive) liquid coolers. Both the low and high load thermal performance of the H150i Pro RGB are exceptional, outpacing most of the smaller AIO cooler implementations. The average thermal resistance is 0.0837 °C/W, hardly worse than the figures we recorded with the cooler's fans running at maximum speed.
Under these operating conditions, we recorded a sound pressure reading of just 33.1 dB(A), a very low figure for any kind of CPU cooler. The H150i Pro RGB will virtually be imperceptible with its fans running at 800 RPM inside a typical room. A slight humming sound will be perceptible in a quiet environment but its intensity is very low and certainly tolerable by even the most sensitive-eared users.
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tamalero - Sunday, August 19, 2018 - link
Good for you man, but anecdotal evidence isnt exactly a basis for fact.Many people never had Xboxes fail on them, does not means others did.
Hell, my cousin had more than 10 CONSECUTIVE xbox failures (as in replacements) during the Xbox design BS.
Shlong - Friday, August 24, 2018 - link
It doesn't matter if it's anecdotal evidence or not. There is no evidence that AIO's have a high failure rate. The failure rate reported is like 0.01%. The Xbox comparison isn't apt because that had a high failure rate.FullmetalTitan - Friday, November 16, 2018 - link
It would be one thing if the risk he was pointing out was that AIOs will fail somewhat stealthily, but whatever cooling method you are using you will definitely notice the first time your PC hits a BSOD for CPU over temp. Troubleshooting both takes exactly one failure to identify the problem.On the xbox note, I was actually pretty happy I got the red ring naturally because MS had just changed it's warranty policy like the week before, got an upgrade from the janky first shipment of 360s to the newer version with better power management/safer power brick.
loadbang - Monday, August 27, 2018 - link
Have put together into boxes with i9 and an H150i with four 1080Ti's installed. I was surprised at how quiet the whole box was, the client ended up having the rendering PCs in their office rather than the comms room. You can pretty much let the fans idle at the slowest speeds, CPUs are pretty happy running up to 100ºC, this AIO gets temps well below that.TEAMSWITCHER - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
I read somewhere that a custom PC manufacturer switched to all-in-one water coolers to eliminate problems they had in shipping. Large heavy heatsinks would damage the motherboard when the package they were shipped in received a sharp impact. Computers that worked fine before shipping were broken by the time they reached the customer. This article prompted my switch to water cooling.mkaibear - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
That would make sense if you move your computer a lot, but most people build it and leave it in one place...Cableaddict - Friday, June 28, 2019 - link
I've been taking oc'd PC's on the road for about 20 years now. Water cooling scares me to death, even today. As the air coolers got larger, I did start having problems with micro-cracks in my mobos.Then I came up with a simple solution: I run a length of angle aluminum across the top of the rack case, then I use plastic ties to secure the Noctua cooler to the aluminum. Dead solid. I haven't had a mechanical failure in at least 6 years, with 3 PC's getting thrown around my truck several times a week. With my new i9x build, I'm finally considering an AIO, but it would have to offer more than just a 10% improvement.
Diji1 - Friday, August 17, 2018 - link
Yeah but how quiet is that top of the line air cooler with 100 CPU load?Diji1 - Friday, August 17, 2018 - link
*100% evenApharot - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link
Keeping it cool at 100% load is far more important than noise level. I'll take cooler over quieter every time.