E8400 Temperature Testing

Idle Temperatures


With a cool running chip like the E4600 the Triton 77 is decent overclocker and it puts up some very impressive numbers for a cooler that operates so quietly. Hopefully, this foreshadows what this cooler is capable of under full loads.


Average Load Temperatures


As you can see the idle results are not anomolies and were in fact on the conservative side when compared to these load temperatures. While the Scythe E on the Ultima was not exactly running at full speed it is still impressive to see this cooler pull out a near tie with it. Of course the ASUS fan was working at full speed to do this and if the chip had been capable of 4.0GHz it probably would not have been able to keep this performance up but that is just an educated guess. As it stand the Triton 77 is a good performer when it comes to dual core CPU cooling. The big question is whether it can sustain this kind of performance level when the the thermal loads are much higher. Lets check out the hot running Kenstfield quad results and see!