Reeven Hans RC-1205 Test and Review

Reeven Hans RC-1205 arrived to me in a pretty standard for the company small and very tight package made of carton, painted in black, grey and yellow colors forming the typical for company colour scheme with a big picture of the cooler itself and the most important features related to the product on the front and the top panels.

 

 

As you can see from the pictures above there is plenty of specific technical information regarding the cooler’s compatibility, dimensions, specifications and features all over the box and before I open the box to see what’s inside I want to share some info about the Hans RC-1205.

According to the official technical details, the cooler is with dimensions of 80mm (W) x 155mm (H) x 125mm (D), weighs 760g and is compatible with sockets:

1. Intel LGA 775/1150/1155/1156/1366/2011
2. AMD AM2/AM2+/AM3/AM3+/FM1/FM2

I believe it is time to open the box and finally see what’s inside of it…

After I opened the package there was a protective foam layer which I removed and underneath it found the cooler itself. Apart from the cooler, inside the package there were a smaller black carton box, of course with the additional accessories, and one REEVEN Coldwing 12 Fan accompanying the heat sink.

First things first… Let’s check the additional accessories…

Inside the little black box I found all of the necessary parts for mounting the cooler on Intel or AMD platforms, installing the fan on the cooler and installation manual with instructions for doing it.

Among the accessories you can find:

1. Two fan clips only for one fan to be installed
2. A mounting bracket compatible for both Intel and AMD sockets
3. A mounting bar used for both Intel and AMD sockets
4. LGA 775 spacer
5. Four thumbs
6. A backplate for both Intel and AMD sockets
7. Four backplate bolts
8. Four silicon washers
9. Four spacers
10. Four nuts
11. Two screws for the mounting bar
12. A little wrench
13. A thermal compound

After I paid some attention to the additional accessories, let’s say a few words about the cooling fan.

Reeven Hans RC-1205 arrived to me with REEVEN Coldwing 12 PWM powered and regulated with dimensions of 120 x 120 x 25mm rotating at a revolutions per minute range between 500+/-250 ~ 1500+/-10% and generating airflow level range of 27.61CFM ~ 82.13CFM at noise level range of 4.3dBA ~ 29.8dBA. Pretty impressive…

The fan is made of a standard square painted in black plastic frame, a yellow painted plastic propeller with 11 not so wide but very aggressive angled blades and the connection between them is done by a sleeve bearing and according to the official technical details has mean time between failures of 30000 hours.

After I paid some attention to the fan, I believe it is time to check out the heatsink itself.

Reeven Hans RC-1205 offers a heatsink with a pretty standard structure for about 70% of the coolers on the market,  featuring a contact plate, heatpipes and aluminum fins stack with dimensions of 80mm (W) x 155mm (H) x 125mm (D) and weight of 760 grams.

For transferring the heat from the CPU to the aluminum fins array, the cooler uses 4 x 6mm quality controlled copper heat pipes with advanced clearance layout for maximum heat transfer. All of the heat pipes are soldiered to the contact plates and pass through the aluminum fins stack symmetrically on both sides of the cooler hidden by the top fin.

And by saying the top fin …

On top of the cooler aluminum fin stack there is a very nice aluminum plate with the REEVEN logo laser cut in it, which actually looks really well and the only purpose of the top fin is made to act as a finish to the aluminum stack and improve the overall cooler appearance.

As you can see from the picture below, there are 50 aluminum fins in the array with unique emboss design for optimized air flow through the heatsink.

Now let’s check out the contact plate.

As you can see on the next picture below the contact plate of the cooler is made of two smaller plates with very smooth and shiny surface holding the copper heat pipes . Unfortunately, the cooler doesn’t offer direct contact of the heat pipes with the processor, which will definitely reduce the overall performance. Who knows, maybe the next model will include direct contact of the heat pipes with the processor.

After I am done checking the main features of the cooler, it’s time to mount the Reeven Hans RC-1205 on the system used for the tests. And to do this I have to prepare the mounting kit and take pictures on every stage of the cooler’s mounting.

First I had to remove the motherboard from the bench table and prepare the backplate for mounting.

And this is what the backplate looks like installed on the motherboard.

After I placed the backplate I can fasten the mounting bracket with the four provided nuts.

All of the brackets are installed and it’s time to apply the thermal compound to the CPU. As usual it’s not pretty, but it will definitely work.

In the next stage I placed the cooler to the mounting bracket and with some help from the mounting bar, two screws and a screwdriver it was ready for testing.

After I finished installing the cooler the time with the most  tricky moment has arrived, which is actually the installation of the fan to the aluminum array. I tried the standard way from the manual but I hit a rock. After a while I got an idea how to do it…

I first placed the fan clips on to the cooler and then I mounted the fan like this:

It is all about skills …

And this is what the cooler looks like installed on the motherboard.

After I installed the cooler I can say that the mounting system provides excellent pressure to the CPU socket and is really easy to be installed on Intel sockets.

And here is one picture for you, just to be sure that there is no interference with memory modules of any heights on LGA1155. The cooler fits just perfectly without blocking any DIMM slots.

And this is a picture of the working system, used for the tests:

Now, before I start doing the tests, I will describe the system which I used:

Testing rig:

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K

1. at standard turbo frequency  of 3.4GHz (all settings set to auto, except CPU ratio set to 34 and  disabled C1 and Intel Speed Step)
2. at overclocked frequency of 4.5GHz (at 1.35V fixed voltage, LLC set to Level 2 and disabled C1 and Intel Speed Step)

Motherboard: Asrock P67 Extreme4

Video card: MSI N460GTX Cyclone OC 1GB DDR5

Memory: 2 x 2GB Kingston HyperX Grey Series 1600MHz

Hard drive: Seagate 7200.10 250GB, Samsung F3 1TB and Western Digital Blue 1TB

LAN card: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family

Chassis: DimasTech bench table Mini v1.0

Power supply: Cooler Master Real Power M700

Cooler: REEVEN Hans RC-1205

Thermal compound:  The standard thermal compound provided with the cooler.

Fans:

Standard cooling fan for the cooler (Coldwing 12 PWM fan) set to full speed from UEFI.

The tests were conducted in an open chassis system with two additional 120mm GT1850 fans spinning at about 1120 – 1140 rpm for cooling the rest of the components.

The ambient temperature at the time of tests was 27°C.

Testing procedure:

I will install REEVEN Hans RC-1205 on the motherboard and do Idle and Stress tests at default turbo frequency of 3.4GHz and later do Idle and Stress tests at overclocked frequency of 4.5GHz with the standard cooling fan

It’s time to see how the cooler performs. I have the feeling that the cooler will manage to cool a moderately clocked CPU.

 

On the next images you can see the results from the test of REEVEN Hans RC-1205 at default turbo frequency of 3.4GHz with the standard cooling fan.

Test at Idle	Test with Stress

 

On the next images you can see the results from the test of REEVEN Hans RC-1205 at 4.5GHz with the standard cooling fan.

Test at Idle	Test with Stress

 

Here are the summarized results from the REEVEN Hans RC-1205 tests:

And a chart with the rotational speeds of the fans during all tests:

The tests were done on 32bit OS, so on 64 bit OS the temperatures would be about 2-3 degrees higher than the results above.

Conclusions:

After I spent some time unpacking, reviewing and testing the cooler and considering the results I can say that REEVEN Hans RC-1205 is made to provide very good cooling capabilities to a wide range of Intel and AMD processors working at default or up to moderately overclocked  frequencies. Apart from that, I must also mention the great compatibility with high profile memory modules, which can provide the option to install up to 4 memories and get maximum performance out of any modern motherboard.

Another important aspect of the Reeven Hans RC-1205 performance is the noise level. The standard cooling fan even at rotational speed around 1500 rpm wasn’t very loud. Yes, you can hear it very clearly but the noise isn’t actually annoying and is far lower than the noise from a standard box cooler. But if it is running at minimum or PWM controlled speed you will not hear it at all.

The last thing to mention is actually the appearance of the cooler, which I can say offers very nice and clean design combined with the typical for the company grey/yellow colour scheme. A colour scheme, which can fit in every modern case or future modding project. Good job, Reeven!

Finally, I think REEVEN Hans RC-1205 deserves the following reward:

Official price (MSRP):

REEVEN Hans RC-1205 – unknown

Warranty: unknown

I thank Reeven for the sample!