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5.0 out of 5 starsI'm just blown away
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
I have an i7 13th gen cpu. I built the server as part of the "home lab". The other servers are storage and whatever. This machine is higher spec and running zfs for storage. Essentially its a local image storage server, and an open source AI playground.
I had a "be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 130W TDP CPU Cooler" in the machine, and at rest, the temps were OK, but when I started pushing images, and the code started processing them, the core temps would spike to 100c and get limited by the hardware/bios. I haven't really been in the DIY hardware world for quite a while, and from what I've read, this didn't seem entirely strange. Just something you deal with if you're not doing active cooling.
This cooler was kind of an impulse buy. I wanted to see if better cooling would have a better outcome. I honestly assumed it would be marginally better, but expected the cpu's to spike anyway. The only difference would be how long it took.
Well, I was wrong. At rest, the cpu temps are now not far off of room temp. At load, the same load that used to hit 100c, it's maxing out around 60c. Roughly. Average is mid-50's.
The difference is far beyond what I expected. The idle temp of the other cooler is not that much lower than the load temp of the new one. The idle temp of the new cooler is so low I'm almost worried that it's too low. Sounds like a weird thing to worry about, but average idle temp is close to reasonable room temp for people.
It's big. Comically big. However, it does an amazing job.