Performance
Test setup and Testing Methodology
The system used for testing is listed in the table below. Ambient temperatures were kept at 24 degrees Celsius +/- 1 degree. The thermal paste used was Noctua’s NT-H2 (for testing consistency). The fan speed was set to Full in the bios. The idle temperatures were recorded after 10 minutes of idle and max temperatures were recorded after a 5 minute torture test using Adia 64 CPU System Stability Test and recording the Cores values and taking the average between the reported values.
| CPU | Intel Core i5-10600K (Comet Lake) |
| Cooling | Cooler Master MasterAir MA612 Stealth ARGB |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z490 Aorus Master |
| Ram | Zadak Spark RGB DDR4-4133 32GB Kit |
| HDD | Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSU | Antec Signature Series 1000W |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Now we get to the good stuff the results. As you can see in the graph below we have the Idle temps for the Cooler Master MasterAir MA612 Stealth ARGB. This chip hovers at a cool 27 degrees Celsius. Almost ambient temps!
Alright LOAD temps! The ones that really matter. The Cooler Master MasterAir MA612 Stealth ARGB faired pretty well coming in at 54.25 degrees Celsius. Only time will tell where this cooler will rank in future tests!
Noise can be a important factor for some. If we have a open case design and the fans might be exposed, we don not want record setting noise coming from our cooler. This not the case with the MasterAir MA612 Stealth ARGB. As you can see in the graph above the fans at full speed hit 33 dBs with dual fans. Just to note, the actually hearable noise from the fans are not distracting at all.
Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict!
