{"id":279752,"date":"2026-08-03T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/?p=279752\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:22:19","slug":"selection-of-older-but-still-relevant-tests-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/selection-of-older-but-still-relevant-tests-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection of Older but Still Relevant Tests (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--nextpage-->HWC has published several analyses that deserve to be revisited. Although they are not from today\u2014or even yesterday\u2014we still consider them useful in practice. Whether it concerns comparative tests of different case designs (from relatively conventional mid-towers to fully passive solutions), a large overview of SSD coolers, or an examination of how an inexpensive CPU cooler copes with changing thermal loads.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how much of an impact a case\u2019s design can have on the temperatures of PC components? We examined this issue some time ago, resulting in some remarkable cross-sectional tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8x-skrinka-00-v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"noborder alignnone wp-image-203893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8x-skrinka-00-v2-1024x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8x-skrinka-00-v2-1024x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8x-skrinka-00-v2-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/8x-skrinka-00-v2-768x315.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Link to analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/retrotest-8x-pc-case-from-small-to-large\/\">Retrotest: 8\u00d7 PC case. From small to \u201clarge\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Should you use the SSD cooler included with your motherboard, or would a third-party model be better? It depends on the specific circumstances. You may find answers to your particular question in our test, which compares more than a hundred coolers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-190071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00-253x168.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ssd-coolers-on-motherboards_00-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Link to analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/more-than-100-models-tested-overview-of-m-2-ssd-coolers-review\/\">More than 100 models tested. Overview of (M.2) SSD coolers<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Historical but still highly illustrative tests: How does a cooler\u2019s efficiency change as the thermal load varies? Sometimes, power consumption exceeds the cooling capacity of a given design\u2014but until it does&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-253x168.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities-00-872x579.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Link to analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/arctic-freezer-33-tasting-different-heat-intensities\/\">Arctic Freezer 33 tasting different heat intensities<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>English translation and edit by Jozef Dud\u00e1\u0161<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- responsive -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block;background-color:transparent\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8150419924824893\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6522017574\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HWC has published several analyses that deserve to be revisited. Although they are not from today\u2014or even yesterday\u2014we still consider them useful in practice. Whether it concerns comparative tests of different case designs (from relatively conventional mid-towers to fully passive solutions), a large overview of SSD coolers, or an examination of how an inexpensive CPU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extra-tests","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selection of Older but Still Relevant Tests (Part 4) - HWCooling.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hwcooling.net\/en\/selection-of-older-but-still-relevant-tests-part-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Selection of Older but Still Relevant Tests (Part 4) - HWCooling.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HWC has published several analyses that deserve to be revisited. 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