the hundred and thirty millimeter cooler clearance in the NCASE m1 is the limiting factor for
your cooler selection that means typically a 92 millimeter tower cooler is the best you can do but
there's an exception today let's take a look at a few different tower coolers for this little case
welcome to machines and more i haven't done too much content on the m1 but as many of you know
this is my personal video editing machine then i hope to do some more content on this guy going
forward and it's just hard to play around with it and also need to use it at the same time
it's a good time to take a look at some coolers since i came across a duo of interesting cool to
show you guys now the installation with these is generally uneventful and pretty similar so
i won't spend too much time commenting on that so let's just jump right into the lineup here
this one for me is the most interesting one today and this is the new thermal write silver sole 135
and this one was actually sent to us by a friend of the channel in china so big thanks to you dan
for making this review possible another one is the id cooling se904 xt and this one was sent
to us by id cooling so big thanks to them as well and our baseline comparison today will be against
a cooler i love and know very well because i've been using this one in my personal machine this
is the noctua u9s so real quick overview on these coolers the new silver soul 135 is special because
it uses this 120 millimeter sort of fan with the corners paired off and this fan slots right in
the middle of the dual towers just like that and it sits just over those heatsink screws into the
recesses on the fans and that allows it to do what very few other tower coolers allow us to
do in the Ncase m1 that's fit this 120 millimeter fan now a good portion of the fan does overhang
the heat sink but we'll check in on the thermal performance shortly and see if that even matters
this one is the evolution of the silver arrow 130 minus the bloody installation process that
has now been etched into folklore and i think a lot more of you will be interested in this one
because it's a bit more conventional it's in its heat sink design and it's less dangerous to mount
now the m1 technically has a height restriction of 130 millimeters but i had absolutely zero problems
getting this 135 millimeter cooler to fit and for that panel to close no problem at all it's a dual
tower design and one of the things that is most promising about this is that it manages to fit six
heat pipes into what is a fairly compact design and it is a very hefty heat sink at about 615
grams the base plate is polished nickel plated copper and the overall build quality is average
the cover plates they came a little bit crooked the paint on it it's a little inconsistent but
at the end of the day it's not terrible in the m1 a 92 millimeter fan can fit on the back still with
this cooler so i did test it out with the knock to a 9 by 25 in rear intake with this cooler
the id cooling se904 xt is a similar design but on a much smaller scale split dual towers just like
the thermal right cooler but it only has four heat pipes and a direct contact base plate with
those heat pipes and it is a rather lightweight heat sink at only 430 grams comes with just one
id fan but id cooling also supplied two extra fans for the testing so i did test it with a
rear mounted intake that stock middle fan and also a fan over the ram although that one did stick out
proud from the heatsink quite a bit just because of the ram height so 392 millimeter fans on this
ensemble and we'll see if that or the big fan and big heatsink from the thermal right is more useful
for the u9s it's a pretty commonly recommended cooler for the m1 it's a great cooler nearly
perfect build quality real premium feel about this one heat sink mass slots right in between those
two at 530 grams as does the heat pipe count at five this one comes with the knock to 89 by 25 fan
and i usually run this one with that extra intake fan at the rear so that's how this one was tested
and it does have a nickel plated copper base plate as well so let's just jump right into the test
results for the testing i use a 10-700 k with a very very slight overclock at 4.8 gigahertz on all
cores locked to 1.2 volts with the msi z490 unify board i ran two sets of tests the first one is a
noise optimize and noise normalized test for this test of fans on all the different coolers are set
to a level that yields plus seven decibels over the noise floor there are also two nfa 12 by 15s
at the bottom locked 1100 rpm contributing to this total system noise level as well for the
u9s that's 1700 rpm on the cooler fans for the thermal write that's 1675 rpm on the cooler fan
and for the id 904 xt that's 1750 rpm now i was a bit surprised initially that the three fans
could run that fast compared to just two nocto a9s but that's just how it measured out on the
decibel meter it does have a buzz that could not be measured out necessarily but it sounds a little
bit off in terms of the noise quality if you know what i mean getting into the results for this one
the standout here is the thermal right that's a huge enormous gap and i was pretty shocked
how well this thing works here the u9s is no slouch and more than capable to handle a stock
10 700 k typically speaking but locked at this voltage this chip is pushing 160 watts or so
and that is absolutely an impressive performance from the thermal write the sc-904xt wasn't up to
the task here and while it teetered at 99 degrees for a good portion of the test it did eventually
hit thermal throttle and it teetered between 99 and 100 degrees so that's a scratch for this test
and the u9s is somewhere between the two not a terrible level of performance for the
next test i wanted to see the maximum level of cooling that these coolers could deliver in the
m1 regardless of noise and there are some of you that don't really care too much about noise or
you just want to know if the cooler can handle your system in an extreme scenario right again
the silver soul 135 impressed me here it's not exactly quiet here at plus 10 and a half decibels
but yeah that's an absolutely fantastic temp for this chip at this power level u9s does trail
at about eight degrees behind albeit at a much lower noise level and the se904 xt does manage
to avoid thermal throttle now but at 2300 rpm on these three fans it is massively loud at 12
and a half decibels over the noise floor and i can absolutely hear this thing from a long way
off just for fun i managed to squeeze a phanteks t30 into the silver sole 135 just to be clear
i don't recommend this the panel won't close all the way and the clips don't work with the extra
height of the fan so it kind of just gets stuck in the middle there and it's not tight against
the heat tins while i don't recommend putting a different fan in this cooler necessarily for
the noise optimized test it did manage to shave off another degree and a half over the original
fan although the 92 millimeter intake at the back does limit its efficacy somewhat but just a little
fun data point here i think set up with this stock fan it's already really really impressive
as for the acoustic qualities let's take a listen to the fans real quick at those two test levels
the xt did have a strange buzzy quality from its fans and i really didn't like that too much
but the thermal right fan isn't bad at all and this one definitely surprised me so there
are a few impressive coolers from id cooling such as the se224xt and that one absolutely
punches above its weight but i think this one performs exactly as it's priced and that's not
necessarily a bad thing i mean it's only 30 bucks right and while i wouldn't recommend this one
to use with even a lightly oc 10700 k at this price bracket i don't think this is
designed to do that at all and it's really more for the ryzen 5 and intel i5 level of power draw
and if you're running that level of cpu in the nk someone i really don't see a big need
to spend too much more unless the quality of the stock fan bothers you u9s has been
and is still a great choice for 92 millimeter coolers this is my go-to this is a solid chunk
of metal it does limit you to two cooler fans for your cooling configuration but it's awesome
it's um just perfect almost perfect bulk quality but it is not cheap at 60 dollars for the regular
version and 70 for the chromax black now but pair it with another a9 fan and you've got a
very dependable and uh it's a great premium option for your encase m1 as for the thermal right this
thing is downright ridiculous i haven't been this impressed with a cooler for a while in terms of
the design and the raw performance and holy cow this thing rocks the socks off even the u9s and
if you're willing to mod a regular 120 millimeter fan to fit this thing i think it can be done but
from what i've seen so far there's not necessarily a huge incentive to do that because this knock fan
actually works quite well now getting this one can be a little bit of a tricky affair depending
on where in the world you are but for most of you if you're comfortable using a site like aliexpress
you should be able to get this cooler and from what i've seen just now it's about 70 dollars
delivered to the u.s now if thermal write could distribute their coolers in a more mainstream
fashion that would be awesome because this thing is super super impressive and i think it would
be very popular and i highly recommend it at some point i hope to do some m1 airflow configuration
testing with both this cooler and the to c14s so hey if you're interested in that be sure to be
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