Brilliant! Thank you for the link.
I guess next thing for them is to test Enermax just to see how much a functioning one would bring to the table.
Still waiting on my screw pillars then a triple spool SilverArrowTR4 becomes a fully operational technological terror.
Won't be apples-apples until they do it, but I can state with near certainty that my setup would probably not survive 3.8G in Prime95 small ffts. I believe it wound up in high 3.6s. The system starts out pulling well over 500W from the wall and quickly ramps down from there. If I get a chance I'll re-run the tests. I've got a 280mm in push-pull with the stock Enermax pulling and a 3000rpm and 2000rpm Noctuas pushing (I haven't decided whether to deal with the 3000rpm db fan yet or not, so I've got both). Probably a little silly to have higher airflow on one side, and the case definitely limits the effectiveness of the single 3000 rpm fan (there's a noticeable drop in whine when I close the front door on my design r5). This setup does work better than a pair of Noctua 1500rpms in push, so there's that....
Ed: running the 3k fan no faster than 2k rpm, package settles in for a power draw of 230ish watts at 3.68-3.69GHz on my Enermax. Opening the front door of my case gets me another .06Ghz. Turns out the 500W draw was from a manual overclock -- for my run, I saw max draw from the wall of about 420W, settling in to about 350W or so. Room temp is 77F (25C). My recollection from a power perspective is that the Noctua peaked at around 180W. Again, that's on my box :shrug:
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