(I should have pulled out my dB meter and actually measured this. The liquid temperature was at a steady 47c (116.6f) (plus/minus 0.1c when the fan ramped up and down) and the fan noise was noticeable, but not very loud. Which is -273.15c (-459.67f) for those who shouldn't know My motherboard was doing a nice job at keeping close to near absolute zero though. The CPU reached a max temp of 65c (149f) and avereged at almost 64c (147.2f) and dropping down to 57c (134.6f) when Intel Burn Test went to the next loop. I have to say that the 920 is looking pretty beast with it's thickness, and it was conveniently covering up the molex power calbe to the motherboard which looks a bit ugly.įor cooling performance, it wasn't doing a very good job at keeping my 9590 cool. RAM: Curcial BallistiX Tactical Tracer, 4x4 GBĮxtra fans: Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition\w blue LEDs The stock fans are replaced with Corsair SP120 High Performance Edition PWM fans. So, for testing I ran my AMD FX-9590 at stock speed with TurboCore disabled, used Intel Burn Test running for 15 minutes for torturing and had my side panel off.Īntec ChillControl was set to the Silent profile for both tests. I hope you guys will like it!)įirst off I have to say thank you to everyone who has given me feedback on my other thread over at ! A 280mm radiator would never have fitted in the top of the Define R4. I have never reviewed something before, so wish me luck!Īll feedback is welcome! (I meant to post this only on the thread I made over in the Water Cooling section, but it turned out better than I thought, so I decided to post it here as well. This will be a quick and dirty summary of the cooling performance I think. How quiet is Silent, how extreme is Extreme.So I finally got the 1220 and it works great! Legit Reviews Intel Core i7-930 Test System View this thread in our forums! Article Contents The default skin is Night, the second skin is Ocean, nice for those who are a fan of the color blue. Here you also set start up options, if you want the temps to be shown in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius, and also the skin. Here you adjust the LED color for the logo on the pump housing, or disable it completely. This cannot be set any higher than 50*C, and a 10 degree separation is the minimum. The next setting is point at which the fans will go full tilt. The first is the ramp up temp, this the point the fans start to spool up to full speed. You have two settings available to adjust. The settings are based off of the liquid temperature. In this tab you can set how you want the fans to behave. It shows in graph form the Liquid Temperature and Fan Speed. The range of noise from 920s fans is very interesting to say the least. Im talking out of the room and down the hall loud. Everything at 100% and I will say it is the noisiest cooler I have ever had on the test bench. In this mode the Kuhler H2O 920 is the quietest of these style self-contained kits.Įxtreme mode however is another story. The Silent profile runs the Kulher H2O 920 fans at a very quiet 600-900 RPM. The sound level meter is not an exact reading, it is similar to software that reads voltages. There are two preset profiles, and one custom profile the end user can adjust. This is what switches the performance profiles. In the upper right there is what looks like an adjusting knob. This screen shows you what the cooler is doing at that time, as well as Min, Max, and Average values for Pump Speed, Fan Speed, Liquid Temperature, and Sound Level. This gives you the ability to tweak the Kuhler H2O 920s settings to behave the way you want it to. Once you have your cooler installed you install the Chill Control V Software.