Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition CPU Cooler Review

1. Introduction2. Packaging3. Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition4. Installation5. Testing Methodology and Results6. Acoustic Performance7. Closing Thoughts8. View All Pages

Today we are going to test the Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition CPU Cooler with the AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition CPU.  We recently tested another cooler from Akasa which we will use as a comparison during testing.  Each cooler tested today will be using its stock configuration of two fans, although of course the Titan CPU cooler has 1*120mm and a 1*140mm giving it the slight advantage.

We like to try and mirror ‘realistic’ conditions when possible, so instead of the ‘open bench concept’, we are mounting our test system inside the Cougar Solution case that we recently reviewed and as it didn't have brilliant thermal performance this will help to identify any strengths or weaknesses of the two coolers.

Room ambient temperatures were maintained at a steady 18c throughout testing.

System Specs:

Processor: AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Edition @ 3.9 GHz.
Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD- M Evo
Cooler (for comparison): Akasa Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler
Memory: 4GB Corsair DDR3 1600MHz
Graphics Cards: AMD Radeon 6450 HD (GPU @ 850 MHZ, Memory Clock @ 1000 MHz)
Power Supply: Akasa Venom Power 750W
Boot Drive: OCZ Vertex I 60GB SSD (OS only)

OS: Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit
Digital Sound Level Noise Decibel Meter Style 2

We firstly ran some initial testing to get some idea of the potential of this cooler.

A lead of 3 degrees under load is fairly significant and this shows signs of some fairly impressive performance from the Titan Fenrir Siberia Edition CPU Cooler.

One of the features the Titan coolers boasts, is that it cools the surrounding components. As such, we ran tests specifically looking for improvements in other areas. We also tested over a much longer period of time to allow the temperatures of all components to rise, then settle.

As you can see from these results there were significant improvements to the thermal performance when using the Titan Fenrir CPU cooler … and not just in regards to processor temperatures.

The motherboard temperature was four degrees lower after the same time period. This is because the Titan Fenrir cooler is pushing a high level of cool air across the motherboard components.

The GPU is not directly cooled by the Titan Fenrir cooler, however the case ambient temperatures are almost 4 degrees lower which subsequently reduces graphics card temperatures slightly.

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