Well, frankly speaking, Scythe Kabuto is no conjuror, but it performs just as well as one of the best top-coolers – Thermalright SI-128 SE. the latter gets a little bit ahead at high fan rotation speed because of higher heatsink plate density that benefit from higher air pressure. Here I would also like to stress how good the fan choice is for Scythe Kabuto cooler: installing a more powerful SilenX iXtrema Pro instead of the default Slip Stream doesn’t improve the cooling efficiency that much at all. As for the reference cooler, Thermalright IFX-14, it easily leaves its competitors behind in all test modes. However, we have expected something like that. It will win even more inside a completely closed system case.

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