Loud fans equal good performance so what are you really going to do? Quiet fans offer less performance and that can mean overheated processors to the performance user. This noisy fan sounds like your typical 60mm Delta, but if you want to see for yourself then click away on the ol' pair of headphones. If you really want to annoy someone next to you, turn that volume up really loud and loop the sample continuously!

Synthetic Temperature Test Results: *Ranked according to 100W small interface die test results.

FrostyTech Synthetic Temperature Test Platform Results
	Mfg.	Model	Ambient Temp.	27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block		27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block	Thermal pad	No. Fans	Fan Noise	Clip force
				50W	50W		100W	100W
1	Thermal Integration	TI-V77L	26.5	39.1	44.4		57.5	63.6	grey	1	med	med
2	Coolermaster	HCC-002	22.0	41.0	45.8		54.6	66.3	none	1	loud	easy
3	Vantec	CCK-6027D	27.4	45.4	49.6		64.9	73.4	none	1	med	med
4	OCZ	Dominator	26.5	37.7	50.9		52.4	74.2	none	1	loud	med
5	Akasa	Silver Mountain	26.6	46.2	51.5		65.0	76.1	none	1	loud	med
6	Vantec	CCK-6035D-Retail	26.5	44.2	52.8		63.2	77.9	none	1	loud	med
7	Thermaltake	Volcano 6cu+	26.5	40.3	55.3		58.6	84.4	carbon	1	loud	med
8	Spire	5T060B1H3R	26.7	42.7	57.5		64.6	85.1	none	1	low	med
9	Fortis	A92	26.7	45.6	65.8		67.8	97.8	none	1	loud	stiff
				50W	50W		100W	100W

Copper kills heat when you have the engineer abilities to build a decent heatsink. In this case the Coolermaster sneaks up right behind the Thermal Integration TI-V77L and comes close to taking the number on position in this list of reference coolers. The only similar heatsink, the Fortis A92 (only half copper) sits way below at the bottom of the list suffering from a poor thermal interface between the fins and the base.

Looks like CoolerMaster have a real winner with the HCC-002, but before we commit to that let's take a peek at the rise above ambient results.