Lighting & Performance
Before we get into testing lets see those fans in action! Our motherboard (ASUS Prime X470-PRO) actually does not have a 3-pin addressable fan header so we were actually unable to connect the fans to it. Luckily we had another board that we could run the cables to so we could show off the fan lighting. Many people might be out of luck without a 3-pin addressable header on their motherboard, especially boards that are a couple years older. That is why we think ABKONCORE should have included a fan controller with the cooler. The lighting on the fans look great though as you can see in the pictures below.
The CT404B Dual Sync was installed in our X470 test system, which is made up of the following components.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Cooling: ABKONCORE CT404B Dual Sync
Motherboard: ASUS Prime X470-PRO
Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti OC Edition
Memory: HyperX Predator RGB DDR4-2933 16GB
Storage: Gigabyte UD Pro 512GB
Power: Corsair RM850x
We will be comparing the to the following CPU coolers tested on the same hardware.
– AMD Wraith Prism RGB
– AMD Wraith Spire
– Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition
– Cooler Master MasterAir MA410M
– Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P
– Cooler Master MasterAir MA620M
– Corsair A500
– Cryorig C7 Cu
– Cryorig H7 Plus
– Noctua NH-U12A
– Reeven Brontes
– Reeven Justice II
– Scythe Mugen 5 TUF Gaming Alliance
– Scythe Big Shuriken 3
– Scythe Ninja 5
For performance testing we will first test idle temperatures. These are taken on the Windows 10 desktop and hour after the system has been turned on.
Moving on to load testing we will be running the AIDA64 system stability test with the CPU only checked. This puts a full load on our CPU. We run this test for 1 hour and record the highest temperature throughout the test.
As you can see the ABKONCORE CT404B Dual Sync does pretty well compared to other coolers.
We have just upgraded to a new dB meter which we place a few inches in front of our memory to get a reading for noise levels. Here are those results.