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11-19-2012, 02:24 PM
 (11-17-2012, 02:30 PM)MaJoR Wrote: Careful with 212s. The Evo is the good one: a decent cooler at a surprisingly low price. All other 212s are crap.From that review: 212 evo 15.9c 212 plus 16.9c 212 19c I don't see how a 1c-3.1c difference can constitute calling the others crap. They are all decent coolers at a good price. Of course there are many better coolers out there. 11-19-2012, 03:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2012, 03:18 PM by NaturalViolence.)
Start overclocking or put the system in a hot room and that 1-3 C difference becomes a hell of a lot more. As you get close to room temperature it takes an increasingly enormous amount of additional thermal dissipation to drop the temperature by even 1 degree C. Room temperature in that lab was probably around 10-12 C.
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I don't dissagree with you. Personally I have never liked frostytech's testing, I would much prefer to see real world examples. I was just saying that given the "proof" shown it is impossible to call one crap and the other decent.
In the real world benchmarks I've read comparing the plus and the evo they are still very close. Usually around 3C of each other with normal ambient temps in the low to mid 20s even when overclocking. The largest difference between the two i could find was ~9C on a hot running 130w i7 with a 1.1ghz overclock but still within the operating limits of the cpu. Which I still don't think is a big enough difference to call one crap and the other decent especially since stress testing isn't really "real world use" either, though maybe for dolphin usage its pretty close. I know I have seen at least one review where the plus beat the evo, but there is always human error to take into account. In real world usage the evo will be ~3C cooler and a little quieter than the plus. Making them both decent coolers at affordable prices even when overclocking. If you want to get extreme overclocks or are in a room with ambient temps much over 25C I wouldn't suggest either. 11-20-2012, 12:24 PM
Crap is a subjective term. How much worse defines something as crap?
I think "crappier" might have been a better word to use.
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