LPMiller

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Bires

neat design...but 60 clams?

"cons...needs some lights"

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LegendKiller

Not a lot of heatsinks can do 4ghz on a Preshott on air, except when they wail like a banshee.

Its a great product, admittedly I am very impressed with it and still use it when testing.

Quiet, cool, and leaves room for tweaking. Sometimes ya gotta spend some to get some. er...that can be taken the wrong way

bachviet

Can I borrow it and test it on my AMD 64 3200+? Thanks.

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xsiled2

nice, i might need to get one of those when i get another p4

Memo

Good cooling but it's a tad ugly and mucho dinero!

gazou

yes its ugly copper ones are nice.. hey this is my first post Whohoo! im rdy to spam

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SmokeyDP

If I am understanding how this works where the heat rises inside. Does it matter if you use this thing on a case where the cpu is sideways vs sitting flat(desktop vs tower case)?

LegendKiller

No, it doesn't. The head doesn't raise as much from gravity as it does from physics.

The liquid vaporizes at the bottom and then raises to the top where it is cooled in the tubes by the fins which are cooled by the fan. The vapor then condenses back down to liquid and streams down the side to the bottom to start the process again.

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SmokeyDP

So from what you are saying this thing would not work if it was on its side?

LegendKiller

What I am saying is that it doesn't depend on gravity to really do any of the work. It relies more on the natural motion of liquids and vapors in a pressurized environment. I have the thing in my tower now sideways and it works perfectly, as does every other heatpipe in a verticle arrangement.


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SmokeyDP

Oh ok, now I get it!

How would you say the noise of this thing is compared to a stock cooling fan on a Athlon64 3600+ setup? I have an Antec Sonata case and the only thing I can hear in it is the CPU fan right now. I imagine the cooling would be much better.

LegendKiller

The noise level is barely existant. You really don't hear the fan but you hear some flow noise from the air going through the fins. As stated in the view, these heatsinks work more off of efficient cooling rather than brute force methods. It's really a great design.

I still have my Prescott going at 4.01 ghz, something that requires high-end loud air or water usually.


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kimchicowboy

hahahha. "needs some lights." funny guy. heheh

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LegendKiller

They actually make one with lights, it costs a bit more. I thought for $60 you should get some bangles .


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