Cooling Performance

For performance testing on the H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT, I ran it through our usual benchmarks. With it hooked up to our test bench running an Intel 13900K locked at a PL1/2 of 253 I used AIDA64 Stress Test in a few different situations to get an idea of the performance. For comparison, I have the previously tested kits as well which include two Aquafusion Adv AIO coolers, the ETS-F40 120mm air cooler, and the Corsair H100i Elite with the LCD Display that we use on our test bench daily. For the first test I used the FPU workload which is extremely demanding and I tested with the stock fan profile and at 100% fan speed. The CPU temperatures are the CPU sensor, not the package temperature which does run a little warmer as well. The H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT came in at 65c with the stock fan profile which was better than the well-used older H100i but the Aquafusion Adv was a degree lower, but cranking the fans up to 100% it ran at 62c which was the coolest of the coolers tested.

With the same AIDA64 Stress Test with the FPU workload I tested a third time, this time around with the fan speed at 100% and with the CPU wattage uncapped. This gives us a better look at the max capabilities of the cooler and the H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT came in at 297 watts, the same as the Aquafusion Adv.

Then the last test was also using AIDA64, but this time around with the CPU workload. This is more in line with what you will see when gaming and with everyday use. The FPU workload is closer to rendering with the CPU. Because of that all of the coolers ran cooler here and the H100i ELITE CAPELLIX XT with the balanced profile in iCue ran at 60c. This was right with the Aquafusion Adv kit. The same test but with the fans and pump at full speed dropped things down to 56c which was 1 degree better than the Enermax cooler.