CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi Heatsink CPU Air Cooler @ [H]

[FrgMstr]

CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi Heatsink CPU Air Cooler

The CRYORIG H7 Quad Lumi was the first CPU heatsink with software controlled RGB lighting. It has a Hive Fin technology heatsink, four 6mm heatpipes, a nickel plated copper baseplate, and all the frag harder RGB LEGs one could ask for on a heatsink, but will that make it cool our overclocked AMD Ryzen 7 test system? Today we find out.

 

[defaultluser]

One of those weird-as-fuck companies where performance goes down as the number goes up.

R1 > H5 > H7

The price of the H7 is way too high for how much of a performance hit you take over the H5.

 

[atp1916]

You gotta wonder how the engineers over there missed the high temps. Perhaps they were using Celerons and Pentiums?

 

[Kor]

How do you manage to make a hunk of copper and aluminium that large cool so poorly?

 

[ole-m]

How do you manage to make a hunk of copper and aluminium that large cool so poorly?

Mating surface and fan is my bets on worst offenders, next is probably material savings to get the budget for RGB or w/e

 

[Armenius]

That convex cold plate was a poor choice. Cryorig also probably made the assumption that everyone just replaces the included fans with Noctuas anyway .

 

[THUMPer]

I have one of these, and they don't cool that bad. But have you told Cryorig? They are on twitter constantly shoving this cooler down peoples throats.

 

[defaultluser]

Yeah, afer the amazing price/perf and low noiese of the $45 H5 Ultimate, For just $10 less you can get the base version of this trainwreck.

The RGB edition is more expensive than the H5 Ultimate!

 

[FrgMstr]

I have one of these, and they don't cool that bad.

What CPU are you using it on? What is the clock you are running? What is the vCore you are running? What loads have you tested it under? What are your tdie temps at those settings? What is "that bad" in your usage scenario?

 

[THUMPer]

2400g, 3.9ghz, 1.32vcore, intel burn test, aida stress. tops out around 70c average for all cores, it doesn't FAIL in those regards, but it could cool better. I wont put my 1700 under it, because i'm too lazy to swap out my other cooler.

 

[FrgMstr]

2400g, 3.9ghz, 1.32vcore, intel burn test, aida stress. tops out around 70c average for all cores, it doesn't FAIL in those regards, but it could cool better. I wont put my 1700 under it, because i'm too lazy to swap out my other cooler.

Yes, I would suggest that usage scenario is a tad bit different from our testing procedure which is done very much to show the highest CPU package wattage loads possible.

 

[THUMPer]

I wanted to go back and look at the review but I'm getting a cloudflare error page.

 

[Mav451]

The non-RGBed version at $29-35 is one thing, but pricing the Lumi at $60 is pretty laughable.
The performance regression and price increase is very Thermaltake-esque

 

[FrgMstr]

I wanted to go back and look at the review but I'm getting a cloudflare error page.

Interesting, showing no issues here. https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/02/26/cryorig_h7_quad_lumi_heatsink_cpu_air_cooler

What is your physical location? VPN?

 

[dragonstongue]

odd, you figure if was givens as AM4 compatibility it would for sure have enough pressure applied to make good contact, maybe you all ended up getting one that is a fluke unit (not long enough screws or something) but not having springs in the mounting screws for added pressure, that is just terrible design choice IMO...

H7 can be had for ~$52, H5 universal about the same, H5 ultimate ~$90, R1 same, R1 ultimate same here in Canada (from places I can see...though many of them such as newegg are not properly price checking because on the USA side pricing seems to be what it should be.

and here the specs would leave you to believe because it has AM4 out of the box it would be the best solution vs getting say an H7 or H5 and getting them to send you the free AM4 kit...though therre has been more than once I had read about these kits not always allowing screws to fit properly (have to apply A LOT of pressure just to make sure you can thread the screws, likely is much better than what you seem to have here where the screws bottom out too easily so very little pressure)

they can design the coolest looking coolers with light show up the wazzoo (bleck lights) matters nothing if it does not give firm mating pressure to the socket...did spinning the backing plate or cooler a different direction help? in theory it shouldnt, but, would not be first time something "simple" makes all well in the world ^.^

 

[britjh22]

For $60 there are plenty of lower end dual tower coolers which would probably leave this thing in the dust, but at least its shiny and colorful!

 

[thenapalm]

That convex cold plate was a poor choice. Cryorig also probably made the assumption that everyone just replaces the included fans with Noctuas anyway .

Several of the Noctua heastinks also have convex mating surfaces so this could be by design. Maybe this just has poor heatsink to heatpipe connections..?

 

[rgMekanic]

Don't forget, the outstanding ML240L is only $10 more than this if you have room for an AIO

they can design the coolest looking coolers with light show up the wazzoo (bleck lights) matters nothing if it does not give firm mating pressure to the socket...did spinning the backing plate or cooler a different direction help? in theory it shouldnt, but, would not be first time something "simple" makes all well in the world ^.^

We did rotate the cooler 90*, thinking that the convex plate may have something to do with it, in the CPU only test it hit 91* after 5 minutes in standard orientation, with it rotated 90*, after 5 minutes in the CPU test it was at 93.3*.

The backplate is completely symmetrical when rotating 180*

 

[FrgMstr]

did spinning the backing plate or cooler a different direction help?

Reading is fundamental.

 

[Putz]

when the mating surface only contacts a small part of the die its kind of expected, run the base over a surface grinder for giggles and make it flat and see how it does, can only expect thermal compound to do so much

 

[FrgMstr]

when the mating surface only contacts a small part of the die its kind of expected, run the base over a surface grinder for giggles and make it flat and see how it does, can only expect thermal compound to do so much

Sorry do not have the resources to do an R&D for this company. And honestly, there are so many other good coolers out there, what is the point? If I wanted a project I would buy a furnace and make my own.

 

[Nobu]

Make a short rectangular tim dam and pour liquid metal in until it's full, then install the heatsink for maximum cooling performance (for about 30 minutes)... or just get a better cooler.

 

[Nobu]

On a more serious note, is it just me or do those fins look pretty thick?

 

[primetime]

On a more serious note, is it just me or do those fins look pretty thick?

i would love to see all the cooling reviews over the last year or so retested in this exact setup to see the differences

 

[FrgMstr]

i would love to see all the cooling reviews over the last year or so retested in this exact setup to see the differences

So would I. However, the resources to go back and retest all the testing we have done is not truly possible. I guess we could do like other sites and just lump all the data together not matter what motherboard, CPU, or settings were used! LOL!

 

[FrgMstr]

Well.....maybe one day it would be possible to throw in the lead performing ones like the reeven justice and or the stock cooler as a compromise.....but yea i understand the time involved

Send over the coolers you want tested and I will put those in the list.

 

[Comixbooks]

LOL nice review reason why I own a Bequiet 140 watt cooler. The Fin Design on the CRYORIG must be bad or something maybe not enough air hitting the fins due to the design.

 

[lostin3d]

Thanks for the review.

As one of the last few(it seems) on the planet still using air I'm always curious about new takes on things. Bummer it failed so miserably. Still happy with my Hyper 212's.

Kyle, I was wondering the other day, has anyone ever made/tried case fans using those fans like the air tornado's? Just wondering how efficient a full size 200+mm side/top combo could be.

edit: Sorry, I meant that design that Dyson's been using. Never mind though, looks like he owns the patent and $$$$$. No one's going to pay an extra $200-400 for 1 or 2 fans in a case like that, even if they did work great.

 

[doyll]

I've tested H7 and H7 Quad Lumi. Quad Lumi does cool better than original H7, but it should being it has a 4th heatpipe.

There are so many users out there jumping on the LED band wagon for better cooling and airflow .. sales of LED fans and coolers are great .. therefore LEDs must be cooling better.

 

[MrDeaf]

How did they manage to only fit in 4 heatpipes on a heatsink of this size?

and then the price of this thing, considering the rather poor quality of the baseplate and mounting kit...

 

[doyll]

Yeah, price is high, but many pay premium prices for LED lights in coolers and fans

A 4th pipe in H7 Quad vs original H7, the Quad did give me about 2c lower temps then H7 .. defnitely not a lot. I wish it was available in non-LED model.

 

[thesmokingman]

I used this cooler for an an uncles new rig with a 1600x. I had no issues with cooling at all and am kinda surprised you guys had one run stupid hot. The mounting set up is funky, but if you can get over that its easy enough.

 

[FrgMstr]

I used this cooler for an an uncles new rig with a 1600x. I had no issues with cooling at all and am kinda surprised you guys had one run stupid hot.

Is you uncle's 1600x running at 4GHz with a high vCore while load testing with Prime95 SmallFFT with two extra cores?

 

[FrgMstr]

No, but a shitty cooler would show itself as a shitty cooler regardless of oc setting. I pegged his on prime for hours, no problem.

We never said it was a shitty cooler. Here is exactly what we said, "However, we cannot recommend this air cooler for a highly overclocked, high vCore system, as there are many other coolers around the H7 Quad Lumis price point that perform much better when it comes to keeping your CPU cool."

Also, to address your statement....No, you are wrong. OCs vary greatly from system to system.

 

[FrgMstr]

I think thesmokingman was refering to all the other posts unjustifiably slamming the H7, not your review.

It is a bad value no matter how you look at it when you take the entire market into consideration IMO.