Performance
The performance of the Navis ARGB 280 cooler has been tested on the latest AMD Ryzen setup. The 3700X processor heats up a lot, so it’s a good test for any cooler. The CPU runs at its default settings. Overclocking is really limited, and it will be mentioned later, but the maximum temperature is similar at stock and overclocked settings.
All tests were performed on an open test rig. The ambient temperature was about 23-24°C.
Our comparison includes three tests. The idle mode is a PC left without any load besides standard Windows services running in the background. The mixed-mode base on a PCMark 10 extended test which uses popular applications and simple games. The max load is a CPU+FPU AIDA64 stability test. Shows about maximum CPU load during the most demanding work on all CPU cores.
The overclocking of the Ryzen 3700X is a bit tricky. To keep it sufficiently stable we have to set a higher voltage, but the CPU still has to run under 95°C. We were able to stabilize our CPU at 4.3GHz what is actually its turbo frequency but at single cores. Since the CPU and not the cooling clearly limited the overclocking then mentioned 4.3GHz on all cores gave us not so much higher temperature of 83°C. Looking at this scaling, I bet that the Navis ARGB 280 can handle 12 or even 16 core processors.
I bet that all who decide on the Navis series cooler will be satisfied. Tests in our redaction confirmed the high performance of this cooler what comes with exceptional lighting effects.
