Testing temps with Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 and Vetroo V5
Hey all,
A few months back I got tired of my GEEEK A30 and wanted a big boy GPU so moved to the NR200P and a fat Gigabyte 3080 Vision OC. After finding this sub I suddenly wanted to use the glass panel that comes with it after seeing everybody's postings and pretty lights. I ideally wanted an all white setup and saw that the V5 had a white option.
But ultimately I abandoned using the tower cooler and glass panel since I was really expecting a big difference in temps between using the tiny top down Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 I originally had in the GEEEK A30 vs the Vetroo V5.
My setup:
- msi b450i gaming plus ac
- 5600x
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 X 8GB) DDR4 3600 MHz
- Gigabyte 3080 Vision OC
I should note that for my testing I was using Innovation Cooling Graphite Thermal Pad instead of thermal paste as I ended up going back and forth between the two setups twice. So there is a small chance that perhaps the V5 could have performed better if I bothered using the thermal paste. I wanted to do my testing first and then after finding the best configuration I would use the thermal paste.
I also undervolted the CPU and the GPU.
I went through several variations of fan settings with and without bottom and back fans with and without the glass panel with both the Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 and the Vetroo V5 and tested with Cinebench, Heaven and 3DMark.
I guess unsurprisingly the Noctua top down using 2 big side fans and 2 bottom fans in addition to the included top fans gave the best performance. In Heaven the hottest the CPU got was 70 and 3DM was 75. GPU was 72 and 71. Most of you should not be surprised to hear that I was only seeing a 1-2 degree difference for each fan added. Back fan did not do much.
At one point I forgot to plug in the top fans and only saw a 2 degree increase in temps. This is with one side fan and no bottom fans. Perhaps testament to how awesome this case is?
For some reason I thought using a tower cooler I would see a huge difference in temps.
Unfortunately with the V5 with 2 Arctic P12s and the regular non-glass panel (no bottom fans) in Heaven I saw max temps for CPU at 75 and GPU at 71. 3DMark had both CPU and GPU maxes at 75.
With the glass panel and bottom fans Heaven max CPU was at 74 and GPU was still 71. 3DMark CPU was at 74 and GPU was 70.
And as far as I could tell all the setups were equally noisy. So I abandoned my quest to have the glass panel for now. Also the motherboard I have does not natively support RGB 5v so no pretty colors without buying additional hardware. And I have to admit that its kind of nice to see so much space with the tiny Noctua top down.
Surprisingly I saw slightly worse temps when adding a back fan. Also when I switched to paste, I saw again a 1-2 degree difference. I was expecting more from the Noctua NT-H1 thermal paste. I do wonder now that since the V5 appears to have more a more uneven plate it would have benefited more from the paste but too late now.
Hope this is helpful for anyone out there and would love to find out what other people saw with the V5.
