Aircooling Cooling Reviews

Thick Airship: Corsair A-Series A500 CPU Cooler in test – More performance due to sheer size?

Unlike the Intel system, the tests on the AMD system with the Ryzen 9 3900X show the potential weaknesses of the heatsink and heatpipe solutions used. With its up to 2400 rpm and the thick heatpipes, the Corsair A500 even manages to match the polar bear Aurora 230 in the temperatures in the 245-watt setup, but all settings run into the limit at 185 watts, which causes the CPU to fall back to 170 watts. That's why I removed this level from the charts.

With identical fan assembly, however, the Corsair A500 is significantly worse than the Noctua NH-U12A, which should be due to the only 4 heatpipes, which also have to do without real heatsink.

 

Even if the Corsair A500 cools a little better than the NH-U12A with full blast – the victory is quite expensive. Or to describe it with the car comparison mentioned above: the muscle car has a vortex in the tank. 2400 rpm is really not something you would like to have in your PC. And here again it turns out that the Noctua reference fans on the Corsair A500 rotate a little slower than on their original cooler. Again, it's only a few rpm, but it's measurable.

 

If you look at the noise emission now, these curves are of course the logical consequence of what I had just criticized. High speeds also produce decent noiseand the bit of extra performance is not really worth the acoustic damage. If you want to operate the cooler with the original Corsair pustefixes, you have to correct the fan curve considerably downwards. But then it gets warmer again and the lead is gone.

Corsair Air Series A500 (CT-9010003-WW)

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Igor Wallossek

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