Scythe Ninja Plus Rev B - Testing
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Let the testing begin! Before we begin, we have to put the cooler on. I will be using the socket 775 mounting during the testing. I have never been a fan of the push pin clips for the socket 775, but that is what I had to use. It wasn’t as hard as I thought to get on, but removing it was a nightmare for me. Also, if you break a clip, you’re screwed. Once it was on, it was securely on and didn’t have any wiggle to it, which is great for a cooler this big. It’s even more surprising that this cooler doesn’t have a backplate to help support it. That would mean no need to remove the motherboard to put on or take off this cooler.
I will be testing this cooler with the fan and without the fan. For the idle setting, I simply let Windows idle for 30 minutes. For the load setting, I ran orthos for 30 minutes and then read the temperature. To maximize the heat output from the CPU, I overclocked it as far as I could. Here is a look at the rest of the test set up:
Running at idle, the passive cooling didn’t work really well at all. The temp is getting into the range of overheating and being unsafe. With the fan the temperatures go down greatly. After I found out that running without a fan wasn’t going to work very well, I thought about the typical case and the fact that it usually has a few fans on it for air flow. I put a fan not directly on the cooler, but in a place where it would allow some airflow. I did see a drop in temperature, but not enough to allow the computer to be operated without the mounted fan.
When I put it under stress, the temperatures went up. For the fanless mode, the CPU became too hot and froze. I really didn’t think that from 60 degrees at idling the stress test would be too much for it and that it would overheat. With the fan we did have some good results. I would say that this is one of the great air coolers that are in the market today.
Conclusion
There are lots of CPU air coolers on the market, so how do you know which ones are good and which ones aren’t worth it? We can’t test every one out and tell you what is the best one, what's the most efficient, or what offers the best bang for the buck. Today we tested one of the most popular air coolers, the Scythe Ninja Plus Rev B. This offers great cooling and compatibility with most popular sockets.
There isn’t a perfect cooler out there, and this cooler had some downsides. First, this is a huge cooler. Hooking up the power connectors close to the socket will prove to be a problem. I’m not a huge fan of the Socket 775 connectors, though they do work well and are easy to get on. As far as the ability to run the cooler without the fan, it flunks. I was barely able to run the computer on idle and it flunked. Overall I’d recommend this cooler for your cooling needs. The few downfalls that I came to aren’t very important and are really just nit-picking.
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