Cooling

The graphs below show how the three different types of cooling were able to cope with our selection of overclocked and overvolted components running the smallfft test in Prime95 while looping the Canyon Flight test in 3DMark06. The temperatures shown on the graphs are the peak results logged after each configuration had been left stress-testing for 24 hours.


Please note, as we not only wanted to find out how cool the HC-500A could run our components, but whether this allowed a bigger overclock, each type of cooling was tested with the CPU running at its maximum stable frequency.



To see how much extra performance these overclocks yielded read the Performance Results pages; for analysis of these results, please read the Results Analysis page.