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SwedBear
02-15-2007, 12:33 PM
Reviewer: Rafal Zak

Date Published: February 15, 2007

Excerpt: "I'm sure a lot of you have had some sort of problems when deciding what to get for your CPU in terms of cooling. It's a tough market to be in as there are so many companies offering all sorts of products, it's just hard to pick the right one. To tell you the truth, there is no right or wrong either. Products such as coolers and PC accessories tend to come in huge variations. "


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Unregistered
04-16-2007, 10:38 AM
I bought this cooler and tried to install it. The temperature of the CPU in idle mode is 55°C. I think than the temperature is quite too high. I'm not sure I well placed the cooler in the CPU as the system is not so easy to use ... could you send a picture to show how to fixe the cooler ?
Rafal
04-18-2007, 08:22 AM
Hello and thanks for your reply :)

What CPU / motherboard are you using? What is the speed? There is really 1 way of positioning the HSF on the socket. It's shown in the manual actually.
AlabamaCajun
04-19-2007, 09:37 PM
I like the design with 4 pipes in tandum giving a better contact to the sole plate that mates to the CPUs IHS. Previous sinks had 3 pipes stacked on 3 other pipes. I doubt the upper later of pipe are that effective. In this case all four on the floor rising to the fins. They could have improved radianting by staggering the tubes in the fins opposed to 4 in a row. You end up with hot zone near the edges and cool zones in the center top and bottom near the greates airflow is.
As with this type of sink, I tend to also use a ducked 120mm draft fan to pull heat away to improve its performance.
Rafal
04-19-2007, 10:14 PM
You're correct, might be actually useful to use that ducked 120mm blower :) Funny thing is the same "looking" HSF, but from CoolerMaster performed better. Differently built? I doubt it, design wise it's pretty much the same. So what makes the difference? I really don't know, haven't x-ray'ed it :lol: