The case housing each system is a Corsair Graphite 730T, which is spacious enough to handle practically any cooler and has a traditional front-to-back airflow arrangement with two intakes and one exhaust, all of which are fixed at full speed for consistency. The coolers are installed in a fully assembled system to replicate a realistic scenario. Lastly, AM3+ is AMD's aging but still current socket for its most powerful chips, and the results here are roughly applicable to all AMD sockets since they use the same cooler mounting mechanism. Anyone using the newer LGA2011-v3 socket will want to focus their attention here too. The LGA2011 socket is used for Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs, the fastest consumer chips around. The LGA1150 socket is likely the most popular among enthusiasts, and the results from this should be roughly applicable to LGA1156, LGA1155 and LGA1151 users too.
All systems are overclocked to place added stress on the coolers. As such, we test each cooler in up to three separate test systems depending on what sockets are supported. Test SetupThe performance of CPU coolers can vary depending on the CPU they're installed on due to differences in socket mounting mechanisms and processor thermal properties.
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