Specifications
Package and its Contents
The C7 Cu arrives in a small box. It’s really small and once unboxed, it’s hard to put everything inside. Outside the box, we can find general description and specification. There is also additional info that when we register our new cooler then we will receive an additional three years of warranty so six years in total. Except for Cryorig, only Noctua offers so long warranty.
The heatsink is made of copper as advertised. It looks simply great.
One of the advantages is a simple mounting system which also supports most modern sockets. It would be hard to run any higher wattage processor from HEDT series on the C7 cooler because of the maximum 115W TDP. On the other hand, it’s amazing how high wattage can support so small cooler. It’s also 15W more than the previous version of the C7 cooler. One more quick calculation and we can see that the Cu version should offer about 40% better cooling performance than the stock Intel cooler. Now that’s amazing considering similar size of both coolers.
The C7 Cu uses 92mm fan which spins up to 2500 rpm. It’s quiet but above some speed, we will hear the fan so a lot depends on the PC case and airflow. During typical work at lower CPU load, we won’t hear it at all. In games, probably graphics card fans will be louder.
Above you can see both C7 coolers installed in a really small PC case. The C7 has similar height as most popular, tall memory modules. It’s also as large as stock Intel cooler so there is no issue with installation.
Let’s move to the next page to check how the C7 Cu performs.
