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Noctua NT-H1 Pro Grade Thermal Compound Review

by Prof. Dr. Silver     |     March 21, 2008

Load Temperature Testing

Stock Temperatures



Overclocked Temperatures


While at most times it looks like our new Noctua NT-H1 is beating out OCZ Freeze, the difference is minimally; measured by tenths of a degree Celsius which is within the margin of error. Coming extremely close to the performance of MX-2, we would have to commend Noctua on such a great achievement for a first timer in the extremely competitive TIM market.

When we overclock the CPU to 3.6GHz, thus generating more heat, the temperature rises to 50ーC and Noctua NT-H1 keeps its performance between the No.1 and No.3 spots. It scales very well against MX-2 and OCZ Freeze while staying ahead of the other two compounds we used here.

It should be mentioned that in these tests you can really see the benefits of using three separate mounts in a thermal compound review since temperatures do tend to vary from one mount to the next. There is usually one spike in temperatures and that spike could sometimes be a much as a whopping one to (in some extreme cases) two degrees Celsius on average.
 
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