Scythe IORI Scior 1000 Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 15.04.14Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Overall, the Scythe IORI Scior-1000 is a very pleasant surprise. It is an affordable cooler aimed at entry-level and mid-range markets but comes with an impressive level of manufacturing quality and performance. While some coolers might be cheaper, they are also much cheaper in terms of design, simplicity and manufacturing quality. The overall performance is good and noise levels are decent as well. The noise levels could be a little bit lower but as we said, you still get a great cooling performance. The cooler is bundled with a slim PWM fan, which is a little noisy at 12 Volt. |
- Low Profile Cooler Performance
- Quality - PWM - Socket compatibility |
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| Installation | + | - | |
| Mounting is quite easy and practical but unfortunately the fan clips can cause some headache. Putting them in place requires a decent amount of force, since the clips fit rather tight. The mounting mechanism parts are solid. Thermal paste comes in small bag |
- Basic mounting easy and practical - Compatible to Intel and AMD sockets |
- Fan mounting | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| The cooling performance of the Scythe IORI Scior-1000 is very good for its size. It does a way better job than most, if not all, cheaper coolers and to make things worse, for competition at least, it even does a better job than some more expensive and bigger coolers. So far, Scythe's IORI Scior-1000 is one of the best performing low-profile coolers we have had a chance to test in our lab. Load performance at both 7V and 12Vpleasantly surprised us. | - Cooling performances | ||
| Noise Levels | + | - | |
| The overall noise levels are good and the Scythe IORI Scior-1000 is silent. When we set the fan controller to 7V it showed 280 rpm with 32.8 dBA which is not far from noiseless but still very good. At 12V fan starts to be rather noisy and we measured 40.3 dBA at 2'220 rpm which, in comparison with other coolers, is noisy. Luckily, this cooler is powerful enough to keep a quad-core CPU at adequate temperatures, even when the fans are driven at 7V, meaning noise level will not be an issue. | - Silent at 7V | -
Noise at 12V |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| We can definitely recommend this cooler as it is a very good low-profile cooler for any HTPC and Mini-ITX gaming systems. The Scythe IORI Scior-1000 is priced at less than 25 Euros, which certainly makes it a great buy. |
- Price
- HTPC - Mini-ITX Gaming |
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| Rating | |||
| We gave the IORI Scior-1000 from Scythe 4.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
| Page 1 - Presentation / Specifications |
| Page 2 - Photo Gallery |
| Page 3 - Installation & Test Setup |
| Page 4 - Absolute Performance |
| Page 5 - PWM Performance |
| Page 6 - Conclusion |
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