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Corsair A500 CPU Cooler Review

Performance and Comparisons

 

The Corsair A500 gets off to a great start in our thermal performance tests. With all the Intel Core i9-9900K cores locked at 3.6 GHz, the A500 turns out to be our best-performing CPU air cooler by matching the load temperature recorded by the Deepcool Assassin III, with just a slightly lower idle temperature reading.

It's a similar story with the Intel Core i9-9900k locked at 4.7 GHz. The Corsair A500 performs marginally better with the CPU under load than the next best air cooler in the chart. Again, the idle temperature recorded by the A500 is the best of any CPU air cooler we have tested to date.

Our testing shows that the Corsair A500 is worthy of its big boy price tag as it is the best CPU air cooler in terms of raw thermal dissipation performance recorded on our test bench. With the Intel Core i9-9900k locked at 4.9 GHz across all cores, the Corsair A500 performs excellently.

This best in class performance does come at a cost and that cost is noise output. The Corsair A500 is one of the loudest coolers we have tested yet and is the loudest air cooler by some margin.

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