Aerocool X-Predator X1 review

October 5, 2012 | 09:49

Tags: #atx #fan-control

Companies: #aerocool

Aerocool X-Predator X1 - Cooling Performance


Our test kit includes an ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 graphics card and an Intel Core i7-870 CPU, which has been overclocked from 2.93GHz to 3.4GHz using a vcore of 1.305V and a CPU PLL of 1.9V. This is a modest overclock, but our test kit will spend most of its life under high load, so pushing it too far isn't in anybody's interests. More importantly, some poorer-performing cases push the CPU temperature to above 80°C, so even this overclock will prove to be too much for some cases.

The CPU is cooled by a Gelid Tranquillo CPU cooler with a Noctua NF-S12B ULN 120mm fan. The NF-S12B ULN is a low-airflow fan, so it will highlight cases with poor cooling for the CPU. We also locked the fan speed on the graphics card to 30 per cent to prevent the automatic speed control interfering with the results.

We record the temperature of the CPU using RealTemp, noting the temperature of the hottest core, and used GPU-Z to log the temperature of the graphics card. Having recorded the ambient temperature in front of the main air intake of each case, we're then able to calculate the delta T - the difference between the ambient temperature of our lab and the temperature of the hardware. To load the system, we use a combination of the Canyon Flight benchmark in 3DMark06 and the smallfft test in Prime 95.
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-870 CPU overclocked to 3.4GHz
  • Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6
  • Motherboard: Biostar TPower I55
  • RAM: 2 x 2GB OCZ 1,866MHz DDR3
  • Hard drive: 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
  • Heatsink: Gelid Tranquillo with a Noctua NF-S12B ULN fan
  • Power supply: Seasonic M12D SS-850EM


Case performance - CPU Delta T

Arranged by CPU Delta T

  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (Full speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (minimum speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Maximum Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (High Speed)
  • Antec One
  • Cooler Master HAF X
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Low Speed)
  • Cooler Master HAF XM
  • NZXT Switch 810
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Minimum Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Minimum Speed)
  • BitFenix Shinobi XL
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Full Speed)
  • Xigmatek Elysium
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Full Speed)
  • Corsair Carbide 400R
  • Fractal Design Define R3
  • Fractal Design Define R4 (Full Speed)
  • Corsair 550D (without panels)
  • Antec P280 (Maximum speed)
  • Cooler Master HAF 912
  • Antec P280 (Minimum speed)
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Minimum Speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (maximum speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (minimum speed)
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Minimum Speed)
  • Aerocool X-Predator X1 (Maximum Speed)
  • Sharkoon T28
  • Enermax Hoplite (Maximum Speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Minimum Speed)
  • CM Storm Enforcer
  • Corsair 550D (with panels)
  • Aerocool X-Predator X1 (Minimum Speed)
  • BitFenix Shinobi
  • Fractal Design Define R4 (Minimum Speed)
  • BitFenix Survivor
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
°C, lower is better
  • CPU Delta T
  • GPU Delta T

Case performance - GPU Delta T

Arranged by GPU Delta T

  • Cooler Master HAF X
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone FT02R-W (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (Full speed)
  • SilverStone Temjin TJ11 (minimum speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Full Speed)
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV02 (Minimum Speed)
  • Xigmatek Elysium
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Full Speed)
  • Corsair Carbide 400R
  • Cooler Master HAF 912
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Full Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Maximum Speed)
  • Fractal Design Define R3
  • Xigmatek Utgard (Minimum Speed)
  • Antec One
  • Antec Twelve Hundred (Minimum Speed)
  • NZXT Switch 810
  • Cooler Master CM 690 II (Minimum Speed)
  • SilverStone Raven RV03 (Minimum Speed)
  • CM Storm Enforcer
  • Antec P280 (Maximum speed)
  • Enermax Hoplite (Maximum Speed)
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (Full speed)
  • Sharkoon T28
  • Enermax Hoplite (Minimum Speed)
  • Antec P280 (Minimum speed)
  • Corsair 550D (without panels)
  • BitFenix Survivor
  • Corsair Graphite 600T (Minimum speed)
  • Fractal Design Define R4 (Full Speed)
  • Corsair 550D (with panels)
  • BitFenix Shinobi
  • Fractal Design Define R4 (Minimum Speed)
  • Cooler Master HAF XM
  • BitFenix Shinobi XL
  • Aerocool X-Predator X1 (Maximum Speed)
  • Aerocool X-Predator X1 (Minimum Speed)
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0
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°C, lower is better
  • CPU Delta T
  • GPU Delta T

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