Deepcool Gamer Storm Gabriel Review

Performance Analysis

With a noticeably smaller heatsink than the Raijintek Pallas, despite a slightly higher maximum fan speed, it wasn't surprising to see the Gabriel post results that were a little warmer. At 12V the fan was certainly noticeable, but still nowhere near unpleasant, and it managed a delta T of 52°C. This was 5°C warmer than the Pallas, but still enough to match the Gelid Tranquillo and 27°C cooler than the reference cooler.


Switching to PWM mode, saw some fairly aggressive tuning of the fan speed and noise but the delta T only rose 3°C to 55°C - still a good 24°C cooler than the reference cooler, although the Pallas here managed to knock a few more degrees off with a delta T of 49°C under PWM.


Conclusion
The Gabriel performs admirably as a low-profile cooler. It will leave you plenty of change from £30, is compact and more importantly offers good cooling and beats the pants off the Intel reference cooler. It's also around 20 per cent cheaper than the Raijintek Pallas.

However, the latter is better-looking, slightly quieter and better at cooling although only by a few degrees. However, it's enough to just about remain our favourite, so unless you're looking to keep the cost of your build to an absolute minimum where every penny counts, the Grabriel is a good, but not quite award-worthy low-profile cooler.