9/25/2023 0 Comments Evga clc 280![]() ![]() Our review sample of the Intel Core i7-6700K requires excellent cooling once you approach 4.5-4.6GHz as its stock clocks are only 4.0GHz and 4.2GHz with Turbo on for two cores. Intel’s newest Skylake and Kaby Lake Core i7 CPUs mark a new advance in processing power, but they require a higher quality cooler with a larger radiator than 120mm if you want to overclock them without excessive fan noise. Unless you are supplying a relatively high voltage to most CPUs, a budget cooler will work nicely. If you want to cool a stock Intel i7, a value CPU cooler such as a Corsair H60 will suffice until you begin to push the core speeds beyond 4.4GHz or so. It is highly recommended that you instead look for sales and use rebates to save money. Too much depends on it if you value keeping your CPU cool, or especially if you plan to overclock. EVGA will also supply a bracket for the upcoming AMD Ryzen CPUs.Īs important as saving money on hardware is, this editor believes that the choice of a CPU cooler is critical to any PC build. They are also adapted for 115x and 1366 platforms as well as for AMD socket AM2/AM3 and FM1/FM2 platforms. The CLC 280 Liquid CPU Cooler ships with an EVGA multi-socket mounting system that has a relatively easy and very straightforward installation. And our Seidon 240M was being used to cool our Devil’s Canyon i7-4970K also at 4.4GHz.ĮVGA offers an easy entry into the world of watercooling with the CLC 280 Liquid CPU Cooler, which is a complete package to offer everything that you need to cool your overclocked CPU, including thermal interface material. Unfortunately, 4.5GHz proved too hot under full load at 120mm as this cooler is mid-range for a watercooler. We paid $50 after mail-in-rebate for it and were able to lock all 4 cores of our Skylake i7-6700K to 4.4GHz for our day-to-day uses including for benchmarking. We purchased a Corsair H60 CPU cooler earlier this year when our Thermaltake Water2.0 240mm cooler failed. ![]() The Seidon 240M (top), now discontinued in the USA, is smaller compared with the EVGA CLC 280 (installed) As the IPC of Skylake and Kaby Lake are the same, we would like to surpass the i7-7700K clocks which turbo to 4.5GHz and we are currently at 4.4GHz with our i7-6700K. Since we are testing faster and faster graphics cards including the Pascal TITAN X, we’d like to increase the speed of our CPU for benching and this is the report of our adventure in overclocking. Previously we had issues with reaching speeds over 4.5GHz with our Core i7-6700K using our Corsair H60 (120mm) CPU cooler, and we had barely achieved a very hot 4.7GHz using our Cooler Master Seidon 240M (240mm) liquid cooler. We received the EVGA CLC 280 from EVGA for evaluation ten days ago. UPDATE: The Pump Block software can now be downloaded from EVGA’s download center and the version for Windows 10 64-bit may be downloaded from here. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the Flow Control software is not yet available, but we are promised by EVGA that it will be released “soon”. These settings save to firmware which means it only needs to be set once. The upcoming EVGA Flow Control software will give full control over the EVGA CLC Liquid Cooler including the fanspeed, RGB lighting, pump control, and profiles. The Teflon Nano Bearings ensure a long lifespan as the EVGA CLC 280 cooler is warrantied for 5 years. The curved housing is custom-designed by EVGA to reduce noise, and their unique blade design offers improved cooling performance. These new fans are dual-purpose and they are built for superior cooling and lower noise. One button is used to control all RGB color profiles with the option to save a custom profile to firmware. EVGA gives the end user the opportunity for further customization by linking up the EVGA CLC cooler with select EVGA graphics cards, and matching the colors directly from software. The EVGA 280 CLC dwarfs the Corsair H60 (right).ĮVGA suggests that their new cooling block offers an improved flowrate and better heat transfer for improved cooling over the stock Asetek 5 cooler that it is based on. We are testing EVGA’s new 280mm CPU liquid cooler versus the Cooler Master Seidon 240mm, and against the Corsair H60 120mm liquid cooler to see how far we can overclock our i7-6700K. This new liquid cooler that we received for testing from EVGA promises excellent cooling performance, low noise, complete software controls, and even RGB lighting. The EVGA Closed Loop CPU Liquid Cooler (CLC) at 280mm has arrived at $129.99. (This evaluation has been updated a few hours after it was originally published to include the newly released EVGA Pump Block Software). ![]()
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