JonNik
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Pretty good actually. I think the loudest fan in my case is from the PC Power Silencer psu… which is good enough for me. I'm using a pair of Quiet Corsair SP120 fans on the h100i's radiator, though.
Although I would have preferred a push-pull fan setup, the Corsair 500r case didn't have room for it. Still, it's been fine in retrospect. Running at 4.4ghz only has me idling at 30-35C°; max-load under prime95 had me at 75-77C° …but from what I gather, that's normal for a Haswell chip (things run hot!) with 95% of the efficiency.
I read some reviews about a Noctua NH-D14 outperforming the h100i and, even if that's true, I very much prefer the minisccule case footprint of the h100i.
That is pretty good. I actually run a little hotter but that is probably because I have put all the fans at fairly modest rpm (you can practically only hear some air whoosh in a dead quiet room). I get around 39 idle on the hottest core on a 25 Celsius room. and never more than 60-63 on extended gaming sessions. I expect its quite a bit better now that the weather has cooled but I don't bother to look anymore, naturally.
I get up to 82-83 on my personal flavor of stress testing: 1-2 hours of the heavy duty 100% blend test running in tandem with a unigine benchmark so that the gfx card will put some extra heat in the case. If there are thermal problems or whea errors to be found at all on the OC they ought to come out there in my experience.
I doubt there is a lot of difference between the Noctua the Thermalright and the H100i on average. The Haswell did seem to be quite a bit hotter than even the already too hot ivy bridge so I decided to play it safe on the mature platform. Very happy with the system but it seems a decent OC is pretty doable on the Haswells too without too much noise, after all...
I was going to suggest the Noctuas for your H100i btw but you seem to have it covered
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