OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler Review

High Performance Fan Results

Q6600 w/ Noctua NF-P12-1300 fan

Where here at Hardware Canucks feel it is out duty to provide you with as many answers as possible and the very fact that it is downright fun modding things has nothing to do with us going “above and beyond”….honest….trust us! Whether you believe us or not, one question I am sure many of you are asking themselves about this cooler has to do with the Adda fan. Lets face it, on a cooler which costs as little as this one does, the fan is always going to be suspect (i.e. “how much better would it be if it had a really good fan”). In order to answer this question we yanked the ADDA fan from it and grabbed a NF-p12-1300 fan we use for CPU cooling solutions which do not come with a fan and stuck that bad boy onto the Vendetta to see what would happen. Here is what we found out.


A high performance fan certainly does make this impressive cooler into a real 100% Arse Kicker! At stock speeds the NF-P12 was able to drop the average load temperature by 1.9° C, this is better than what the reference design S1283 was able to do. But, the real story is the OC average load reduction of 2.1°C. A little over two degrees doesn’t sound like much but this brings this CPU cooling solution below that magic number of 50° C. This is impressive and really does start to push this cooler in the water cooling level of effectiveness (though just barely and any good WC kit would destroy this cooler faster than a N00B at professional gamers LAN Party!). Just being able to start talking about the two in the same the sentence is only possible with the crème de la crème of Air coolers!