Review ID-Cooling SE-207-XT Review: Big Air on a Budget

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ID-Cooling’s SE-207-XT is a seven heatpipe, dual-tower assault on large air cooling with performance that’s much more memorable than its name.

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[Phaaze88]

Page 3, last sentence:
"Just keep your expectations in check, or opt for something more-expensive (and lager) if you’re after the highest possible overclocks on high-core CPUs."

Besides not having had a beer in a couple years, I guess that was a typo for larger.

 

[Mr5oh]

This was an excellent review. It's actually compared to all the dual tower coolers that you would expect, even Noctua, which usually gets left out. I like that everyone's old standby the 212 is on the list too, sort of helps gives a baseline (or determine if it's money well spent?).

 

[uwhusky1991]

Would like to see the Scythe Fuma 2 in there. It's the same price. Most of those are a little more.

 

[watzupken]

Would like to see the Scythe Fuma 2 in there. It's the same price. Most of those are a little more.

I agree. The Fuma 2 is a formidable dual tower cooler despite its price and size when compared to dual tower cooler from brand like BeQuiet. In my own experience using both the Fuma 2 and Dark Rock 4 Pro, the latter only edges out by around 2 to 3 degrees cooling my 3900X with an ambient temp of around 27 degs.

I suspect the issue with this cooler from ID Cooling is the fan used. Swapping out the fans will cost more money, but I think should help improve cooling. Perhaps the review can include tests to see if it is a problem with the fan or with the heatsink itself that is limiting cooling performance.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Nice review Garret, as usual.

My take on this is, "pass". As in, "I'll pass".

Because what's the point of dealing with the difficulties of a big, twin finstack cooler that only performs as well as a premium single stack cooler? If I'm going to deal with a giant cooler, I'd better get giant cooler-ish performance, or else it's absolutely not worth it and I might as well use a smaller premium cooler like the U14S, U12A, Direct 140, etc., which can usually be had for around the same price AND come with higher quality fans that likely will offer a longer lifetime of performance anyhow.

 

[Enlighter4407]

Hmm, how does this compare to Thermalright Frost 140? In my area the ID Cooling and the Thermalright are virtually at the same price (52-55 USD after VAT). I have yet to see a proper review on the Frost 140 , though...

 

[Darkbreeze]

That's probably because you haven't defined WHICH of them you are looking at. There are a variety of different models of "Frost 140" and they all perform differently.