Is dual tower always better?

[Knight47]

I would like to know if dual tower coolers are always better than single tower?

I see some review that says Arctic Freezer 36 is just as good as Noctua D15.

 

[P4-630]

Also check the diameter and amount of heatpipes used.

My single tower Noctua NH-U12A is a 120mm cooler but with 7 heatpipes and 2 fans.

 

[dirtyferret]

I would like to know if dual tower coolers are always better than single tower?

I see some review that says Arctic Freezer 36 is just as good as Noctua D15.

way too generic of a question, as @P4-630 stated fans, heat pipes, how well the tower is built and tower specs all play a role

 

[phanbuey]

the best 2 aircoolers are dual tower, so if you're getting one of those than yes it's better

 

[Knight47]

way too generic of a question, as @P4-630 stated fans, heat pipes, how well the tower is built and tower specs all play a role

https://gelidsolutions.com/product/glacier-black/ or https://www.arctic.de/en/Freezer-36-Black/ACFRE00123A

 

[Frick]

https://gelidsolutions.com/product/glacier-black/ or https://www.arctic.de/en/Freezer-36-Black/ACFRE00123A

Depends on how much they cost where you live, what case and other cooling you have and what you're planning to cool. Between those two I'd probably go for whichever is the cheapest.

 

[Noci]

way too generic of a question, as @P4-630 stated fans, heat pipes, how well the tower is built and tower specs all play a role

All above is thru, but with these aspects in mind, the bigger the heat dissipiating surface is (cooling fins), the more efficient (not better) a air cooler can function. So, yeah a dual tower has more fin surface to dissipiate heat to the air so in theory it should be more efficient as a single tower cooler (but only if all other specs are the same).

Regarding the question in the title; for example, a well build single tower cooler can perform better than a poorly build dual tower model.

Best is to know how much heat you want to dissipiate (which CPU and OC or not) and check the reviews to be able to that cooling capacity than you should be OK.

Depends on how much they cost where you live, what case and other cooling you have and what you're planning to cool. Between those two I'd go for whichever is the cheapest.

As above, this is unique for every situation; available budget, does it fit in your case, noise levels, are the 'looks' are important? and so on.
As long as you just make sure the cooling capacity is suited for what you are going to cool.

It takes some research, but sometimes it's all about the journey, not the destination.
Have fun.

 

[dirtyferret]

https://gelidsolutions.com/product/glacier-black/ or https://www.arctic.de/en/Freezer-36-Black/ACFRE00123A

assuming the glacier black performs the same as the glacier rgb (they look identical and have identical specs) than the glacial black is the better cooler

I see some review that says Arctic Freezer 36 is just as good as Noctua D15

It's a basic budget cooler, it may do the job depending on your needs but it's not as good as the Noctua D15

 

[silentbogo]

They are not "better" per-se, they just have space for 3 fans to push more air through. With a decent-enough single-tower, more case fans and enough airflow you can do just as good as D15. Heck, my old Thermalright Ultra 120 did miracles on my ancient LGA1366 rig. I think it was able to cool around 300W of heat when I was going for my 4.7+GHz runs of Cinebench and 5GHz OC just for fun and bragging screens.
But under normal circumstances - yes, I'd likely go for Glacier Black as well.

 

[#22]

Cooler performance is mostly about fans, so there exist dual towers being worse than some single tower. That's why if we want to form some universal rules, let's talk about the best ones - it only makes sense.

Dual tower coolers with two fans tend to be the best. They are the most powerful, but also the lower you normalize the noise, the more they tend to win cooling wise, especially bigger ones. If we talk the best ones on the market, these tendencies transform into facts. One exception are dual tower coolers with only one fan and here it depends. E.g. Noctua D15S performs totally similar to U14S being like half of that - no matter if we talk low noise or high wattages, whatever man would trow this pair into, they will score similarly.

 

[Knight47]

Depends on how much they cost where you live, what case and other cooling you have and what you're planning to cool. Between those two I'd probably go for whichever is the cheapest.

Gelid costs like 24 euro and Arctic 28 euro. Phanteks P400A case with two P14 intake and one P12 exhaust, It will be used on a Ryzen 5 5600.

 

[Calenhad]

Gelid costs like 24 euro and Arctic 28 euro. Phanteks P400A case with two P14 intake and one P12 exhaust, It will be used on a Ryzen 5 5600.

Single tower coolers are more than enough for that cpu. The stock cooler is basically enough for that cpu. Since it is the non-X version.