Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ CPU Cooler

Value and Conclusions

Having a good cooler for your CPU is essential in prolonging its life, especially if you're thinking about overclocking. Just when we thought they couldn't get much better, the Titan Fenrir comes along and it is not just the best on one CPU socket, it was totally dominant across all out test systems.

This was with the fan at maximum speed though and it shouldn't be overlooked that it was very noisy and most people will find it intrusively so. However for a quick benchmarking session, if you don't clean your ears regularly or if you simply don't care about noise, the full speed mode is useful, giving the Titan its own little turbo mode.

At low speed is where the Titan excels and most of us will use it. At 17dB, it's both very quiet (although not silent/inaudible) but also only a few degrees off the full speed mode, while still outperforming all of the pack. That's incredible considering other coolers need to forcefully remove heat to even get close to this, the Titan does it with ease just waving a hand over the fins.


Thankfully all this performance doesn't come at too much of a price. No it's not another Freezer 7 Pro, but £30 isn't a lot to ask for such a high performance CPU cooler. Coupled with a hefty overclock, it would be worth double this to be honest, but it also performs admirably at idle loads too, which is testament to Titan's quality. We suspect the heatpipes in particular are pretty special as other core contact coolers we've tested should have worked just as well, however the chrome plastic fan quality is notably lower versus Noctua for example.

The complicated nature of the Fenrir's mounting mechanism does tend to leave a sour taste in your mouth, but unfortunately this is the way most large, heavy heatsinks are braced in the socket, so it's a necessary evil that most of us will probably already be familiar with. The plus side to it is that flat mounts are pretty much guaranteed each time, and installation in itself is often much easier than push pins. As a result, your motherboard will probably breath a sign of relief at not having your full body weight pressing down on it trying to get that pesky push pin to click into place (ala Akasa Nero).

There's no getting away from the Fenrir's dominance though - a combination of a solid mounting mechanism, a well designed and intuitive heatsink with dominating performance at both high and low fan speeds; all of which is at an easily affordable price. This combination makes the Titan Fenrir simply awesome.

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