first impressions of the cryorig r1 ultimate..... not very good imo

[Arronleeds]

bought this cooler to replace my h55, ive reseated it a few times with different thermal pastes and all that sort of stuff. i bought it for cooler temps while gaming, my h55 got around 54c on battlefield 4 and this is getting around 46c. thats not a big jump, and i was expecting a lot more from it than this considering its supposed to be within the best 3 air coolers out.

 

[williamcummins]

46C is actually very cool for a cpu under stress. Going from 54 to 46 is even more impressive since you had a watercooler before. 8 degrees cooler is a nice improvement if you want to push your overclock further.

 

[Arronleeds]

gonna try aida64, found some benchmarks of an i7 4770k at stock and ocd and the max was 67 with it ocd. my 4790 is hitting 73 on prime95 but apparently one of the versions gives you 10 degrees less.

 

[williamcummins]

Yeah I've heard somewhere that Aida64 gives a more realistic load to every cpu core then Prime95, especially for Haswell architecture. Still, for an air cooler, I think it makes a good difference from what you had before.

Could you give us the delta temps (load temp minus idle temp) to give us an idea of the real cooling performance of your cooler?

 

[Arronleeds]

il record my idle temps, run aida64 for just 10 mins, then do the delta for you.

 

[Arronleeds]

idle: 24,23,23,20 = 22.5
max: 60,59,58,56= 58.25

58.25-22.5=35.75

 

[jediTT]

idle: 24,23,23,20 = 22.5
max: 60,59,58,56= 58.25

58.25-22.5=35.75

I have the Cryorig H7 and my cpu stays around 35 idle 65 max

 

[Arronleeds]

mines idling at between 20-26, my idle temps always spike. whats that 65 max on ?.

 

[williamcummins]

There's truly nothing to worry about, those temps are ideal IMO. You made a good purchase.

 

[Arronleeds]

i know they might be good, but this cooler is supposed to be better than the noctua nh-d15, my cpu is an i7 and hyperthreading is on and i think with it turned off temps are usually lower.

 

[williamcummins]

It's hard to compare to benchmarks since there can be many differences not mentioned in the benchmark methodology. Temps will depend on the speed of your cpu fan, the airflow within your case, the amount of hot air blown by your GPU and PSU, thermal paste used, etc.

 

[Arronleeds]

i have my side panel off because the cooler doesn't fit by like a few mm -_-, not that bothered just means it will need cleaning more, ive tried the thermal paste that came with it and also tried Arctic silver 5, that's got a curing period though hasnt it so cant really compare until its been 200 hours -_-. whats the best way to have the fans on a dual radiator fan, currently got them both as intake.

 

[Arronleeds]

me and my mate just ran a prime95 each for 10 mins and his 212 evo at 4ghz ran near enough the same as mine with the temps, this cooler really isnt as good as it should be.

 

[jediTT]

mines idling at between 20-26, my idle temps always spike. whats that 65 max on ?.

I think the R1 is supposed to be better than the H7. The H7 on a 4690k at 4.6 ghz got a steady 61c during a 15 minute AIDA64 test and 64c after 12 minutes on prime95, idles around 30c. Not sure how good or bad that is compared to others as this was the first aftermarket cooler I've bought. Last time I ran either test I had 2 less case fans and I remember my temps being 5-10 degrees higher so think about the airflow in your case and the way you have your fans pushing/pulling as well.

 

[Arronleeds]

i changed the way my cooler was facing and everything, im getting in the high 60s now, i might just try send it back, not pleased with the performance one little bit, its as bad as my h55 was :/, should have gone with noctua.

 

[jediTT]

into the high 60s using what?

 

[Arronleeds]

prime95.

theres no way theres nothing wrong with this cooler unless my sensors are broken, a hyper 212 evo cannot have the same temps as this cooler, its impossible.

 

[Redrocket90]

Every bench test I've seen seems to disagree with this old thread. odd.