Results – 48 dBA
A year ago, the excellent DeepCool Assassin IV cooler was tested here and eventually took our top award. Today we take a closer look at a modified version of this cooler called Assassin 4S. This variant may have lost the rear fan, but the middle one has been completely redesigned to compensate for this loss. So today’s article logically aims to find out how much of an impact this major change has on efficiency and acoustics.
Results – 48 dBA
Why is there a missing value for a cooler in the chart? Because the cooler could no longer handle the load in the specified mode, or because the fan could not be slowed down to the required speed, this is typically the mode with the lowest noise level. Then there are still cases for which we didn’t test the cooler at 125W at all (and the graphs only show the results of the larger thermal load, 210W). This applies to “optional” cooler configurations with a modified fan setup that is different from the factory design (for example, fitting one fan instead of two, or when completely different fans are fitted to the heatsink of the cooler).
Continue: Results – maximum speed
- Contents
- Key features
- Measurement methodology
- Results – 39 dBA
- Results – 42 dBA
- Results – 45 dBA
- Results – 48 dBA
- Results – maximum speed
- Spectral analysis of noise
- Conclusion and evaluation
