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Essentially a budget version of the HR-02, which tends to cost $79.99 without the TY-140 fan.
1. With the stock fan, it is almost 12*C cooler than the Corsair H80 with 2 fans running at similar RPMs. The Macho still produces a lot less noise.
2. With the stock fan, it matches a Corsair H80 with 2 fans at 2000 rpms. However, the H80 is producing almost 55 dB of noise level!
3. With 2 stock TY-140 fans, it beats the Corsair H100 with 2 fans at 2000 rpms; again at lower noise level. A 2nd TY-140 fan can be found for only $13.99. This means an HR-02 Macho with 2 fans will cost about half of the H100 kit and provide similar performance with far lower noise levels. Amazing.
This cooler will probably work extremely well as a fanless cooler for slightly overclocked CPUs since HR-02 performs well under such a scenario.
Thermalright is also going to shake up the high-end CPU cooler market when it intros the budget version of the Archon -- Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140.
I am pretty impressed by this new mid-range priced cooler.
Full Review at Xbitlabs.
1. With the stock fan, it is almost 12*C cooler than the Corsair H80 with 2 fans running at similar RPMs. The Macho still produces a lot less noise.
2. With the stock fan, it matches a Corsair H80 with 2 fans at 2000 rpms. However, the H80 is producing almost 55 dB of noise level!
3. With 2 stock TY-140 fans, it beats the Corsair H100 with 2 fans at 2000 rpms; again at lower noise level. A 2nd TY-140 fan can be found for only $13.99. This means an HR-02 Macho with 2 fans will cost about half of the H100 kit and provide similar performance with far lower noise levels. Amazing.
This cooler will probably work extremely well as a fanless cooler for slightly overclocked CPUs since HR-02 performs well under such a scenario.
Thermalright is also going to shake up the high-end CPU cooler market when it intros the budget version of the Archon -- Thermalright TRUE Spirit 140.
I am pretty impressed by this new mid-range priced cooler.
Full Review at Xbitlabs.
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