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Corsair H100 & H100i Performance Comparison with SP120 Fans

Henry Butt December 21, 2012 Cooling, Featured Announcement

For our temperature tests we loaded the system for 15 minutes using Prime 95 and recorded the CPU temperature using CPUID HWMonitor.  We then restarted the system and left it idling at the desktop for 15 minutes before recording temperatures. Room temperature was maintained at 18 degrees Celsius for the duration of the tests.

In these tests we can see how the H100i offers a significant performance advantage over the H100 when configured with the same fans. We will examine how the different fan configurations performed acoustically in the next section.

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7 comments

  1. Mannucuna
    December 21, 2012 at 9:54 am

    That is quite a lot of testing Henry, much appreciated. Very useful too. I might get 4 of the quiet fans after christmas. Merry Christmas!

  2. Henry Butt
    December 21, 2012 at 10:08 am

    Merry Christmas to you too!!

  3. carlos cupo
    December 22, 2012 at 2:56 am

    Excelent review! I was wondering the difference in performing between these two Corsair. This is much more that I was looking for. Thanks! Now I know which one to buy and what coolers have to go with it.

  4. Baylor Peak
    February 26, 2013 at 8:32 pm

    Great review Henry!:)

    Question though, when you say “Performance” regarding the stock H100i fans, does that mean you have it set to “performance” mode in the Corsair Link software? If so, those RPMs on that mode are only around 16xx, if you put them on ‘maximum’ they are around 2600 RPMs. I usually have mine on “maximum” because I want the best cooling I can get, but after reading this, should I just keep them on “Performance”?

  5. Neon1024
    September 27, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    I just replaced the stock fans on my H100i with SP120 Quiet Editions, and now my cpu pump led is constantly changing colour – even though I have it set to change on colour temperature. It seems to have thrown out the H100i’s ability to monitor the cpu temp accurately. Is this a known issue? As I’m tempted to go back to the stock fans. It might be because the SP120 has a 3 pin tail, rather than a 4 pin one?

  6. Moayed Honi
    April 20, 2017 at 2:49 am

    Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition will only spin at very high speed on the h100i at 1600rpm lowest so they are hard to control and keep quite. I had to connect them to mobo headers.

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