Browsing through forums I found this post that, although it's a couple of months old, gets to be the only comparison between the two behemoths from Thermalright I've seen so far. It may not be a professional review, but I ask you: what is "professional"? This is so much better than most of the cooler articles I usually read that it puts them to shame.
If you ever wondered about any of these two heatsinks, any question you might have it's answered here. From fan choice to number of fans used in any distribution possible. From pressure mounting to lapping. The only thing I miss here is a full set of benchs iniside the case, since it's in this fashion than most of us will be using any of the two anyway.
In the end, the conlcusions would have probably been the same: both perform almost identically, but the more expensive IFX-14 allows for an easier installation of multiple fans, so you can get a silent configuration. "Almost", here, means that the bigger heatsink has more potential when adding 120 x 76 mm fans, but the gains are so small we are just hitting the limits of air cooling with any of the two heatsinks and a powerful fan like the Delta 120 x 38mm FFB1212VHE.
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