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252 Heatsinks for Intel / AMD Processors Compared on FrostyTech
 This is the most up to date copy of Frostytech's invaluable thermal and acoustic Heatsink Test Charts for Intel and AMD processors, containing data for over a dozen as yet unpublished heatsink reviews, for a total 252 different heatsinks compared.
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Date: Dec 18, 2009
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3Rsystem Iceage 120 Boss II Dimpled-Fin Heatsink Review
Let's get right to the point, 3Rsystem's Iceage 120 Boss II heatsink is currently one of the Top 5 heatsinks tested on Frostytech. Key to the success of this Korean-made heatsink on both AMD and Intel synthetic test platforms are five 8mm diameter exposed base heatpipes...
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Date: Oct 26, 2009
Model No.: Iceage 120 Boss II
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3RSystem Iceage 120 Exposed Heatpipe Base Heatsink Review
The 3RSystem Iceage 120 heatsink FrostyTech is reviewing today is equipped with four exposed copper heatpipes at its base, vibration absorbing foam pads behind the fan, a 120mm low speed fan and a fan speed controller.
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Date: Jul 05, 2007
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3RSystem Iceage 80 Prima Mini Heatsink Review
3Rsystem's Iceage 80 Prima Mini is a compact CPU cooler that stands just 104mm tall. It's ideally suited towards compact PC systems, slim cases, or simply as a low noise cooling solution for energy efficient sub-85W processors.
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Date: Aug 11, 2009
Model No.: Iceage 80 Prima Mini
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3RSystem Iceage 90 Heatsink Review
3Rsystem's Iceage 90 heatsink is a mid-compact heatsink stands just 115mm tall, instead of 165mm, making it suitable for PC chassis that can't accommodate much.
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Date: Aug 07, 2009
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Ajigo MF014021 Copper Heatsink Review
In order to attach the aluminum fins to the copper base both metals are plated in nickel. Nickel plating also protects the copper base from oxidation,
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Date: Jul 15, 2002
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Ajigo MF043044 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The heatsink comes with a pre-applied
patch of Shin Etsu G751 thermal compound on it, so installation is dead simple.
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Date: Nov 05, 2005
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Ajigo MF064-074 Stock AMD Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The heatsink is sold by the manufacturer directly, and bundled in with mid-level Athlon64 retail processors.
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Date: Feb 05, 2006
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Ajigo SF017011 Copper Heatsink Review
After some work with AMD on non-production thermal solution they were
apparently asked to come up with a few designs for mass production.
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Date: Jul 23, 2002
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Akasa 80mm Glowing Fans for Case Pimping
Of the two types of fans the all Blue coloured fan looks the best IMHO, and comes with a small rheostat so you can even control the RPM speeds and thus noise levels.
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Date: Sep 12, 2002
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Akasa AK-860SF AMD Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The Akasa AK-860SF is an economical socket AM2 or 939 AMD Athlon64 heatsink of the most basic sense.
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Date: Nov 26, 2006
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Akasa AK-873 AMD Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The Akasa AK-873 is a socket AM2 or 754/939/940 AMD Athlon64 heatsink, and it comes with its own fan speed controller which enables it to shift from high speed operation to whisper quiet.
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Date: Nov 27, 2006
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Akasa AK-876 AMD Athlon64 Heatsink Review
As you might expect, the Akasa AK-876 is a lower noise AMD processor heatsink that is both easy to install and fairly lightweight. A thermally controlled fan was abandoned for a PWM compliant one instead.
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Date: Jul 02, 2007
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Akasa AK-960E Socket 775 Heatsink Review
As with most heatsinks that are vying to push the stock thermal solution out of the PC, the AK-960E comes equipped with a Pulse Width Modulation controlled fan.
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Date: Nov 16, 2006
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Akasa AK-961 Socket 775 Heatsink Review
Akasa's AK-961 heatsink is made from a collection of very thin stacked aluminum fins, three copper heatpipes, and a small block of copper at the base.
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Date: Nov 16, 2006
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Akasa AK-965 Intel Core 2 Duo Heatsink Review
Akasa's AK-965 heatsink utilizes a 95mm PWM fan spins only as fast as needed to achieve good temperature control, and works well at moving air relatively quietly through the aluminum fins.
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Date: Jul 01, 2007
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Akasa AK-975Cu Intel 2U Heatsink Review
The Akasa AK-975Cu is a compact little Intel socket 775 heatsink that stands no more than 77mm tall. It comes with a 70mm PWM fan that varies in speed from 1000-3500RPM, and a convenient patch of pre-applied thermal compound on its base.
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Date: Jul 19, 2007
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Akasa AK-TT12-80 Thermal Adhesive Tape
If you've ever needed to re-attach a heatsink held in this manner, what are you to do? Thermal paste is sold in every computer store, but thermal adhesives?
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Date: May 04, 2008
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Akasa AK350 Copper 1U Heatsink Review
In the case of the AK350, the entire heatsink
appears to made by cold forged from one small billet of copper.
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Date: Dec 23, 2002
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Akasa AK821 Copper Base Heatsink Review
With the copper insert
the Akasa AK821 makes direct contact with a metal which
has a high thermal conductivity.
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Date: Jan 25, 2003
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Akasa Blue Aurora AK-966BL Heatsink Review
The thermal design follows in the footsteps of models released by Xigmatek and others, but if you flip the Blue Aurora AK-966BL over you won't find exposed heatpipes.
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Date: Mar 02, 2009
Model No.: Blue Aurora AK-966BL
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Akasa EVO 120 AK-920 Low Noise Heatsink Review
The new, 2007 model Akasa EVO 120 improves on these shortcomings with a stocky copper base, and three chunky 8mm diameter heatpipes.
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Date: Jan 31, 2007
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Akasa Evo Blue AK-922 Heatsink Review
The AK-922 'Evo Blue' features no less than six copper heat pipes, a very thick copper base, 52 thin aluminum fins, a small extruded aluminum heatsink, and four strategically placed blue LEDs..
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Date: Jun 19, 2007
Model No.: Evo Blue AK-922
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Akasa Icicle 238 Heatsink Review
The Silver Mountain heatsink from Akasa was one of the most notable heatsink concepts to ever make it to market, but the Icicle 238 is not to be overlooked either.
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Date: Oct 18, 2001
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Akasa Nero AK-967 Heatsink Review
Akasa's Nero AK-967 heatsink is based on the popular heatpipe direct touch technique, and like so many CPU coolers, for today's class of heatspreader capped processors it's the only way to go!
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Date: Jan 08, 2009
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Akasa Silver Mountain 2Q Copper Heatsink Review
The
silver mountain is a unique breed among coolers - it's based upon a solid
copper foundation.
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Date: Nov 27, 2002
Model No.: Silver Mountain 2Q
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Akasa Silver Mountain Heatsink Review
Take one solid copper heatsink and plate it entirely with silver and you have the Akasa Silver Mountain.
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Date: Sep 29, 2001
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Alpha FC-PAL35 Review
Alpha's with copper and aluminum are like... damn good companions. The FC-PAL35 is one worth having a good long look at.
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Date: Jun 18, 2000
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Alpha Novatech PAL8942 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
Making use of their signature cold-forged aluminum construction with an embedded copper plate the PAL8942 is big, black, and chocked full of hexagonal pins.
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Date: Aug 18, 2002
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Alpha Novatech PRE9060M92P Socket 775 Core 2 Duo Heatsink Review
In this review, Frostytech will be testing out the Alpha Novatech PRE9060M92P heatsink; a large socket 775 solution ideally suited for Intel Pentium D, Core 2 Duo/Quad processors.
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Date: Jan 22, 2007
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Alpha Novatech S-PAL8952 Pentium4 Heatsink Review
We'll be comparing the Alpha
S-PAL8952 against the best Socket 478 heatsinks on the planet, so read on!
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Date: May 05, 2004
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Alpha PAL-8150 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The Alpha PAL-8150 heatsink is built to cool recent single and dual core AMD Athlon64/FX/X2 & AMD Opteron processors, and so it's compatible with all socket 939/940/754 CPUs.
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Date: Feb 09, 2006
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Alpha PFH6035 Cooler Review
The Alpha PFH6035 is still one of the staples for overclocking in these days of FC-PGA's. If you have a celeron, you should be overclocking it with an Alpha.
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Date: Jun 13, 2000
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Antazone ASC1000 Copper Heatsink Review
The Taiwaneese company CompTake Technology Co., Ltd produces the Anatazone heatsink, and they are a newcomer to the stage of desktop cooling.
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Date: Oct 23, 2006
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Aopen ACK7L Copper Skive Heatsink Review
The fan adaptor of course reduces noise by allowing Aopen to use a larger fan, and hence a slower rotating impeller.
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Date: Dec 26, 2003
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Aopen ACP4LC Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Aopen's fan adaptor allows an 80mm Nidec fan to mount to the 70mm heatsink frame. The point of this, is of course to reduce the noise created by the fan by using a larger and slower rotating impeller.
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Date: Oct 26, 2003
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AOpen ACP4SH Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Designed with a skived copper base, and heatpipes, this cooler is technically used with the socket 775 Intel processor in the XCube system.
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Date: Nov 21, 2004
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Apack Zerotherm BTF-92 OC Edition Heatsink Review
Apack's BTF92 OC ed. heatsink features a free-floating UFO-bearing 92mm fan spinning at 2300RPM by default. The included fan speed controller can bring impeller speeds down to 1000RPM if desired.
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Date: Nov 30, 2007
Model No.: BTF-92 OC Edition
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Apack ZeroTherm BTF80 Heatsink Review
If the insect shape makes you jump to conclusions on the effectiveness of the heatsink, you might be surprised to know that the Zerotherm BTF80 actually performs fairly well.
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Date: Jul 24, 2006
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Apack ZeroTherm BTF90 Copper Heatsink Review
The 678 gram Zerotherm BTF90 is an all copper heatsink which is designed
to function with socket 775 Intel Pentium D/Core 2 Duo, and socket 754/939/940/AM2 AMD Athlon64 processors.
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Date: Jul 24, 2006
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Apack Zerotherm CF800 Socket 775 Heatsink Review
It has been designed to operate quietly, with the ability to scale the speed of its translucent fan automatically and tackle heat loads as high as 130W.
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Date: Nov 20, 2006
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Apack Zerotherm CF900 Socket 775 Heatsink Review
The Apack Zerotherm CF900 heatsink is a stubby little copper heatsink, and a good candidate for any socket 775 Intel Pentium D/Core 2 Duo based computer system.
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Date: Nov 21, 2006
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Apack Zerotherm Core92 Intel Heatsink Review
Zerotherm's Core 92 heatsink, although fairly compact, is a great socket 775
Intel heatsink for CPUs with a TDP of up to 150W (at full fan speed).
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Date: Dec 28, 2009
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Apack Zerotherm FZ120 Heatsink Review
Apack's new Zerotherm ZF120 heatsink is a refined version of the Zerotherm Nirvana 120, but this is no simple fan switch out - the ZF120 is rebuilt from the heatpipes up.
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Date: May 26, 2008
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Apack Zerotherm Nirvana 120 Heatsink Review
Made mostly of aluminum, with a small copper base connected by four heatpipes to the rest of the heatsink, the entire heatsink is dark nickel plated.
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Date: Dec 31, 2007
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Apack Zerotherm Nirvana NV120 PWM Heatsink Review
The unique design of the Nirvana NV120 PWM heatsink sees a 120mm PWM fan set within the body of the heatsink. The translucent fan blades spin at speeds of between 1800-900RPM.
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Date: Dec 31, 2009
Model No.: Nirvana NV120 PWM
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 11 Pro Heatsink Review
[NEW!]
The heatsink is an aluminum extrusion, weighs 428 grams and stands about 77mm tall. It's well suited for applications like a media PCs and other sub-tower computer format where low noise processor cooling is a priority.
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Date: Jan 24, 2010
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Heatsink Review
The Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 heatsink is an economical lower-noise AMD Athlon64 heatsink that allows consumers on a budget an option for reducing computer noise.
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Date: Feb 26, 2006
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro AMD Heatsink Review
The Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Pro is just such heatsink: ideal for mainstream CPUs that don't exceed 90W TDP.... so long as the fan speed stays at 2000RPM.
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Date: Oct 11, 2009
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Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 Pro Intel Heatsink Review
Enter the Arctic Cooling Alpine
7 Pro socket 775 Intel heatsink; a value oriented low noise extruded
aluminum heatsink for Intel processors (85W or less).
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Date: Jan 21, 2008
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Arctic Cooling Arctic Breeze Fan-on-a-Stick
Not knowing what the Breeze is supposed to be used for, our first excitement
led us to the hypothesis that the Breeze was a miniature wind turbine for
generating electricity off the exhaust fans from your PC.
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Date: Aug 12, 2008
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Arctic Cooling Copper Silent 2 Heatsink Review
Arctic Cooling have developed what is perhaps the
oddest looking fan we've seen in a long time...
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Date: Dec 25, 2003
Model No.: Copper Silent 2
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Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 LP Heatsink Review
The Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 LP is a
low profile AMD Athlon64 heatsink for media centers, or any situation where the compact size of the computer case limits the vertical profile of the thermal solution.
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Date: Mar 05, 2007
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Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The Freezer 64 Pro suspends its 2200RPM fan on four dualaxial rubber vibration absorbing posts.
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Date: Nov 29, 2005
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Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP Low Profile Heatsink Review
The Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 LP is a lightweight Intel socket 775 heatsink made specifically for slim-line and book-sized PC cases. It stands less than 50mm high, weighs just 260 grams and operates very quietly.
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Date: Dec 28, 2008
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Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 Ultra TC Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The heatsink is constructed from a simple aluminum extrusion, and aside from the rather odd-looking low noise fan is pretty straightforward.
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Date: Nov 28, 2005
Model No.: Silencer 64 Ultra TC
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Arctic Cooling Super Silent 4 Pro Heatsink Review
A passive heatsink is always going to be the worlds one and only zero noise producing cooler, but the real prize is the zero noise active heatsink.
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Date: Sep 07, 2003
Model No.: Super silent 4 pro
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Arkua 6149 1U Heatsink Review
In the area of 1U heatsinks competition is ultra fierce. After all, an entire 1U server case is only 1.75" thick.
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Date: Nov 26, 2001
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Arkua 6158 Copper-Core Heatsink Review
The lower amount of air flowing over
the fins impacts its performance level, but also yields a substantial decrease in noise.
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Date: Nov 06, 2001
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Arkua 6258 Copper-Core Heatsink Review
Like almost every Arkua heatsink, the main secret of their ability to cool is a central copper core.
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Date: Nov 04, 2001
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Arkua 628 Copper Core Heatsink Review
This heatsink has tested extremely well, which is a bit
surprising for its small size.
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Date: Apr 19, 2002
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Arkua 648N-6B Copper Core 1U Heatsink Review
To spice things up, and ensure that those PIII or Athlon processors don't
catch fire, Arkua have added a sweet copper core of 19mm in diameter.
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Date: Dec 30, 2002
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Arkua 7228 Copper-Core Heatsink Review
The more thermally conductive 28mm diameter copper slug will move the heat to the surrounding aluminum for faster dispersal.
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Date: Oct 25, 2001
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Arkua 728M-7N01 Copper Core Heatsink Review
There are a great many PCs out there that simply need a good heatsink, and the Arkua 728M-7N01 is one such candidate.
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Date: Dec 21, 2003
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Arkua 7528 Copper-Core Heatsink Review
From the users perspective, the 7528 is quieter, and offers comparable performance because it is based on the same underlying metal fin assembly.
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Date: Oct 26, 2001
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Arkua 838T-7G 2U Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Blessed with a very efficient fin design, and solid copper core, let's see
just how well this little heatsink performs!
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Date: Dec 30, 2002
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Arkua 8456X-8T Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
The 8456X-8T ranks in at 46.5 dB in our
acoustic tests, and even with the large 80mm fan this Arkua heatsink is hardly
aiming for the performance markets.
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Date: Sep 07, 2003
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Arkua 848X-6B 1U Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
The goal in each instance
is to optimize the thermal performance of the heatsink.
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Date: Sep 17, 2002
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Arkua 8568 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
With that simple realization in mind it seems like an obvious reason to exhaust the air from the heatsink directly at the processor - further cooling it down over that of the heatsink.
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Date: Jul 15, 2002
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Arkua Q85X7J Heatpipe Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Heatpipes have been finding their way into more and more heatsinks for a couple of very
good reasons.
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Date: Sep 07, 2003
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Ascent AC300-4P Heatsink Review
Ascent makes the kind of heatsinks you'll see sitting on a shelf at your local computer store. This little guy, the AC300-4P caught our eye a while ago on a recent parts hunting trip.
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Date: Feb 05, 2001
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Asus Arctic Square Heatsink Review
The new Arctic Square heatsink Frostytech is testing out for you today consists of an array of nickel plated aluminum fins wrapped around a 92 mm fan.
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Date: Jun 17, 2007
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Asus Crux P4 XB7N Heatsink Review
The Crux P4 is the first Asus heatsink to be tested by FrostyTech, and thanks to its thermally controlled fan, is also one of the quietest ones for its class.
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Date: Sep 12, 2004
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ASUS Lion Square Heatsink Review
The Asus Lion Square heatsink is a
cylindrical tower of nickel plated aluminum fins wrapped around a 92mm PWM fan suspended in the center of it all.
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Date: Jul 24, 2008
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ASUS Silent Knight II Heatsink Review
The Silent Knight II heatsink is almost entirely made of copper, the base and fins and heatpipes all utilize this thermally conductive metal.
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Date: Mar 12, 2008
Model No.: Silent Knight II
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Asus Silent Square EVO Heatsink Review
The Asus Silent Square EVO heatsink looks like a big square block of cooling... and that description isn't too far off. The heatsink consists of two arrays of nickel plated aluminum fins which are wrapped around a 92 mm PWM fan buried within the body of the heatsink.
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Date: Dec 13, 2007
Model No.: Silent Square EVO
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ASUS Star Ice Heatsink Review
The Asus Star Ice heatsink comes in
a couple different colour variations (blue, red, green) and is fitted to accept an additional 80mm exhaust fan at its rear.
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Date: Mar 05, 2006
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Asus Triton 75 Heatsink Review
The Asus Triton 75 heatsink is intended to be used with a 120mm fan of your choice. The 395 gram heatsink is uses four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes to support a 120x120mm aluminum fin array above the CPU socket.
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Date: Feb 03, 2008
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Asus Triton 77 Heatsink Review
The ASUS Triton 77 heatsink is one of the latest processor thermal solutions to come from motherboard manufacturing giant ASUS. The heatsink is equipped with a Sunon MagLev 92mm vapo-bearing PWM fan which runs at a very quiet 2300RPM.
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Date: Feb 12, 2008
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ASUS Triton 79 Amazing Heatsink Review
Sandwiched in the middle is a 120mm PWM fan that spins at 1300RPM, making the Triton 79 Amazing fairly quiet under power. The heatsink is compatible with Intel socket 775 and AMD socket 754/939/940/AM2+ processors.
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Date: Jul 28, 2008
Model No.: Triton 79 Amazing
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Asus Triton 85 Heatsink Review
The Asus Triton 85 heatsink FrostyTech is reviewing today ships with a 120mm 800-1400RPM PWM fan, and weighs around 520 grams. The heatsink is uses four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes to support a 120x120mm aluminum fin array above the CPU block.
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Date: Sep 25, 2008
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ATI R300: Thermal Problems Caused by the Shim
To put it bluntly, there is problem with the ATI R300 processor package that impacts just how well heatsinks
can cool on the Radeon 9700 Pro.
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Date: Dec 04, 2002
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Auras CTC-868 Heatsink Review
What makes the Auras CTC-868 heatsink stand out is that it's split into thirds, with the two outer sections holding the integrated fans.
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Date: Mar 11, 2008
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Auras LPT-700 Heatsink Review
The Auras LPT-700 is an Intel-only socket 775 heatsink designed for quiet cooling. The LPT-700 is equipped with a 92mm PWM fan that scales in speed from
700-2100RPM.
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Date: Dec 30, 2007
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Auras LPT-709 Wave Heatsink Review
Looking for a light weight heatsink that's compatible with both AMD and Intel processor platforms? The Auras LPT-709 heatsink runs quietly.
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Date: Dec 30, 2007
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Auras SLC-747 Heatsink Review
The Auras SLC-747 heatsink Frostytech is testing in this review for you is designed for socket 775 Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD socket 939/940/AM2/AM2+ processors.
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Date: Dec 10, 2007
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Auras SMF-660 TwinW Intel Heatsink Review
Auras ship the SMF-660 heatsink with a 92mm PWM fan that scales in speed from 1200-2100RPM with compatible motherboards. At its fastest speed the fan is moderately audible.
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Date: Feb 02, 2008
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Auras T6C Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
When it comes to a new heatsink from an obscure company, it never
pays to assume anything.
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Date: Oct 22, 2003
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AVC 112AM1 Copper Skive Heatsink Review
The first thing that we noticed when looking at the 112AM1 is just how thin the base is. At just 3mm thick it is half what most other heatsinks are.
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Date: Jan 07, 2002
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AVC 112BJO Heatsink Review
In the days of copper-this and copper-that it is refreshing to see a good old all-aluminum heatsink crop up to tackle a 1.4GHz Athlon.
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Date: Jul 10, 2001
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AVC 112C81 Copper-Core Heatsink
The copper core in the AVC112C81 extends roughly 5mm into the base in a pre-drilled hole, bringing better thermal conductivity into the equation.
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Date: Oct 24, 2002
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AVC 117140 Sunflower Socket 478 Heatsink
Like the Arkua and Zalman heatsinks, the AVC 117140 has carved out a name for itself by going where no heatsink has gone before in terms of design and manufacture.
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Date: Jan 26, 2002
Model No.: 117140 Sunflower
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AVC 117160 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The market of socket 478 heatsinks is thus quite a bit smaller than that of the socket heatsink market, but it is equally important to consumers.
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Date: Jan 20, 2002
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AVC 212AHO Skive Heatsink Review
It's rare to come across a heatsink that actually surprises us with how it's made.
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Date: Jul 12, 2001
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AVC Black Samurai Heatsink Review
Frostytech's test bench this week is AVC's sleek dark chrome Black Samurai heatsink - one of the first CPU coolers to boast Intel socket 775 and socket 1366 processor compatibility.
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Date: Jan 13, 2009
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AVC Heatsinks at Computex 2008: A View To A Cooler
Frostytech stopped by the AVC booth at Computex Taipei this past week to see what's new from this massive thermal solutions company, and to find out how its LGA1366 Nehalem heatsinks are
coming along.
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Date: Jun 09, 2008
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AVC Tundra 2 Copper Skive Heatsink
Improving on the original Tundra heatsink, AVC have increased the size of the fan from 60mm to 70mm, enlarged the height of the copper fins to 28mm and added a little plastic fan guard.
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Date: Oct 24, 2002
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AVC Z7H2403012 Internal Prism Base Heatsink Review
What is the newest trend in heatsink thermal design? Hint, it's not heat pipes, prolific amounts of copper, phase change materials or cold forging...
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Date: May 22, 2004
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AVC Z7U7408001 Heatpipe P4 Heatsink Review
The AVC Z7U7408001 is an amazingly powerful heatsink, the name isn't
very consumer friendly, so bear with me as I get used to typing out a 10-digit product number...
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Date: May 02, 2004
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AVC Z7U7414001 Athlon64 Socket AM2 / 939 Heatsink Review
Want to know what heatsink AMD rely's on for its socket AM2 Athlon64 FX and Athlon64 X2 reference platforms? The
AVC Z7U7414001 heatsink.
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Date: May 28, 2006
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AVC Z7UB301 AMD Reference Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The AVC Z7UB301 heatsink is one of the first stock Socket 754 heatsinks AMD shiped with its processors, and it is currently used with most Socket 939 Athlon64 CPU models too.
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Date: Nov 28, 2005
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Bitspower NP60CS Copper Skive Heatsink Review
So far this is the first all copper heatsink Bitspower have brought to the table, and as far as a first run goes, the NP60CS works quite well.
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Date: Jan 15, 2002
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BitsPower NP60D Skive Heatsink Review
Bitspower have firmly planted themselves as part of the growing trend of manufacturers specializing in skive heatsinks.
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Date: Jan 10, 2002
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BitsPower NP80D Skive Heatsink Review
Skive heatsinks are neither extruded or cast but rather cut from a single block of material.
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Date: Oct 28, 2001
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Blizzard S370 Copper Heatsink Review
Like the its brother the S370-L, the Blizzard S370 sports a set of thick copper fins, and a solid copper construction.
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Date: May 22, 2001
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Blizzard S370-L Copper Heatsink Review
It may not immediately
be obvious that the entire heatsink is slanted 5 degrees, but if you look
carefully you'll see the tilt.
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Date: Mar 27, 2001
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Chauh-Choung DTA-12 Skive Heatsink Review
The DTA-12 is a small formfactor 60mm aluminum skive heatsink intended for use on Socket A and Socket 370 processors.
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Date: Jan 08, 2002
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Chauh-Choung DTA-15 Heatsink Review
The DTA-15 looks very similar to the Thermalright CB-6L on the outset, but on closer inspection the DTA-15 is not nearly as chromed, and has a slightly different extrusion pattern.
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Date: Feb 03, 2002
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Chauh-Choung DTA-478 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The heatsink uses a dead simple extrusion design, and some rather interesting clips which are screwed into place on the heatsink itself.
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Date: Feb 03, 2002
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Chauh-Choung DTC-66 Copper Heatsink Review
A nice change for sure, and one that opens up the use of the DTC-66 to people looking for a bit more cooling than with just aluminum.
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Date: Jan 11, 2002
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Cho Liang CB00881 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
I'm not sure if red is such a great colour for a heatsink, but the red (hot) CLCB00881 is stuck with it for better or worse.
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Date: Mar 27, 2002
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Cho Liang CB00941A Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Among the various heatsinks Cho-Liang manufacture is the CB00941A which classifies as an OEM level cooler.
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Date: Apr 29, 2002
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Cho Liang CB0307U17 Heatsink Review
Nickel plating aluminum heatsinks seems to be making the international rounds, and I'm honestly not sure what the big draw is.
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Date: Jul 01, 2002
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Cho Liang CB0307Z17 P4 Heatsink Review
This heatsink performed pretty well on the socket 370/socket A test platform so chances are good that we could see equally good performance on the P4 test die.
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Date: Jul 24, 2002
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Cho Liang CB0309Z17 P4 m478 Heatsink Review
In any case, the bright-red anodized CB0309Z17 is for the socket 478 pentium 4 processor and it will be interesting to see how the results fare.
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Date: Jul 14, 2002
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Cho Liang CB0315U17 Copper Heatsink Review
On the plus side, this finish leaves the heatsink looking like a shiny aerodynamic block of copper.
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Date: Jul 15, 2002
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Coolage Freezer Orb F0-Z924AL Intel Heatsink Review
Coolage's Freezer Orb F0-Z924AL heatsink is compatible with socket 775 Intel Pentium and Core 2 Duo CPUs. The heatsink ships with a patch of thermal compound pre-applied to its copper base.
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Date: Jun 26, 2007
Model No.: Freezer Orb F0-Z924AL
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Coolage Frozen Orb Z924 HDC Heatsink Review
Coolage's Frozen Orb Z924 HDC heatsink makes use of the trendy heatpipe direct contact technique, except this time we're looking at a modified thermal design Coolage originally manufactured with a copper base plate.
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Date: Jan 11, 2009
Model No.: Frozen Orb Z924 HDC
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Cooler Master Aero1 ASB-V73-U1 Copper Heatsink
Squirrel cage fans have a couple of benefits over standard vaneaxial fans when it comes to lower-noise heatsinks, though they don't tend to deliver nearly as much air.
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Date: Jun 30, 2003
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Cooler Master Aquagate Mini R80 Watercooling CPU Heatsink Review
The Cooler master Aquagate Mini R80 is a self contained watercooling system designed for a broad range of Intel and AMD processors.
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Date: May 05, 2008
Model No.: Aquagate Mini R80
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Cooler Master CH5-5K12 Heatpipe Heatsink
With out a doubt this has to be the coolest and most deadly looking piece of cooling hardware to ever grace a computers' processor!
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Date: Jan 11, 2001
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Cooler Master DP5-5F11 Heatsink Review
Like all coolers, what was once good can become dated rather quickly. The Cooler Master DP5-5F11 seeks to change that.
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Date: May 23, 2001
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Cooler Master DP5-6H11 Heatsink Review
There are countless heatsinks to choose from when faced with a bare OEM Duron or T-Bird these days.
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Date: Apr 15, 2001
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Cooler Master GeminII S Heatsink Review
Cooler master's GeminII S heatsink stands just 88mm tall and ships with a 120mm fan mounted to its frame. An extra set of brackets allow that fan to be replaced with two 92mm or 80mm fans.
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Date: Jul 21, 2008
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Cooler Master HCC-002 Copper Heatsink Review
Weighing in at around 300-400grams the Cooler Master CCH-002 is elegantly made, and equipped with a speedy 6800 RPM fan.
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Date: Oct 24, 2001
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Cooler Master HHC-001 Copper Heatpipe Heatsink
Using cooper is an obvious first step, and Cooler master have even gone one step further by including twin heatpipes in the HHC-001.
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Date: Jun 12, 2002
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Cooler Master HHC-L61 Copper Heatpipe Heatsink
The HHC-L61 is Cooler master's answer to the cry for a good performing heatsink that don't create a lot of noise.
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Date: Jun 11, 2002
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Cooler Master HSC-V62 Copper Heatsink Review
Beneath the shiny exterior of the Cooler Master copper skive heatsink there lies a small thermistor which sends back temperature readings to the fan.
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Date: Jun 04, 2002
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Cooler Master Hyper 212 Heatsink Review
The Cooler master Hyper 212 is a 60mm tall heatsink, and it's comprised of just the right mix of copper heatpipes and aluminum cooling fins. I'll save you the trouble of skipping to the end of this review, it's good!
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Date: Dec 05, 2007
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Cooler Master Hyper 48 KHC-L91 Heatsink Review
The Cooler Master KHC-L91 Hyper48 comes with a collection of brackets and mounting plates which enable its use on socket 478/775 Intel Pentium 4 and socket 754/939/940 AMD Athlon64 processors.
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Date: Feb 26, 2006
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Cooler Master Hyper 6 KHCV81U1 Copper K8/P4 Heatsink
Fresh from the chrome plated Jet4 wonder, Cooler master are back with the brand new 6-heatpipe packing Hyper6 KHC-V81-U1 Intel Pentium4 and AMD Athlon64 heatsink!
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Date: Apr 20, 2004
Model No.: Hyper6 KHC-V81-U1
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Cooler Master Hyper TX2 Heatsink Review
In all other respects the Cooler master Hyper TX2 heatsink is a compact mid-level heatsink which is compatible with AMD socket 754/939/940/AM2 and Intel socket 775 processors. The Hyper TX2 weighs a feathery 382grams, stands less than 130mm tall.
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Date: Dec 01, 2007
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Cooler Master Hyper Z600 Black Label Heatsink Review
The Coolermaster Hyper Z600 Black Label heatsink is part of a special Limited Edition kit, comprised of all black versions of the quiet Cooler Master Cosmos RC 1000 case, Real Power 850W power supply and Hyper Z600 heatsink.
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Date: Jan 06, 2009
Model No.: Hyper Z600 Black Label
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Cooler Master Hyper Z600 Passive Heatsink Review
Cooler master's Hyper Z600 heatsink is a novel passive CPU heatsink for today's dual core processors. Its' star shape, widely spaced aluminum fins and prodigious number of silvery copper
heatpipes allow it to work without the benefit of a fan.
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Date: May 08, 2008
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Cooler Master IHC-H71 Copper Pentium 4 Heatsink
The Cooler Master IHC-H71 fulfills this role by bringing highly conductive copper, heatpipes, and a
good sized fan together.
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Date: Jun 17, 2002
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Cooler Master Jet 4 ICB-V83 Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
If you have an aluminum case, you'll be pleased to see that the 3.5" aluminum bracket is tastefully done, and should fit in nicely.
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Date: Apr 18, 2004
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Cooler Master V8 Heatsink Review
The Cooler master V8 heatsink is one of the nicer thermal solutions from the company in a long while, and well worth your attention today.
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Date: Dec 12, 2008
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Cooler Master XDream HSCV83 Copper Heatsink Review
Most of us would really prefer to have the 24x7 computer generate about as much noise as a calculator, ie. nothing. Meet the Cooler Master XDream
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Date: Apr 29, 2003
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Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus Socket 1156 Heatsink Review
In this review Frostytech will be testing Coolermaster's Hyper 212 Plus tower heatsink - an exposed heatpipe base cooler that comes ready out of the box for socket 1156 Intel 'Lynnfield' P55 motherboards. Naturally, it supports Intel socket 775/1366/1156 and AMD 939/AM2/AM3 processors.
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Date: Aug 09, 2009
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Coolermaster Hyper N520 Heatsink Review
This tower heatsink stands out because its two 92mm fans are arranged in an offset push-pull formation. There are a couple reasons for offsetting the fans by 20mm that we'll touch on momentarily.
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Date: Apr 25, 2009
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Coolermaster Hyper TX3 Heatsink Review
The Hyper TX3 heatsink weighs in at 470 grams, stands less than 140mm tall, and comes equipped with a low noise 92mm 800-2800RPM PWM fan that drives 17-54CFM according the manufacturer.
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Date: Jun 13, 2009
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Cooligy Active Microchannel Cooling System
Mix in reported cooling potential of
1000Watts per square centimeter (current processors output about 250W/cm2), and you can see why we're more than just a little interested.
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Date: Oct 08, 2003
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Cooling Fundamentals: Ball Vs. Sleeve Bearings
What's the fuss over ball and sleeve bearings in todays cooling fans? Heck, what's even the difference? Read on and know more then anyone around you about these little, but important things.
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Date: Apr 26, 2000
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Cooling Fundamentals: Beware the CPU fan of DEATH!
A few of us have smelt the acrid odor of melting plastic emanating from the
depths of a computer. Thankfully not all of us have had to buy a new processor the very next day...
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Date: Nov 22, 2000
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Cooling Fundamentals: Contact Resistance
is described as the temperature drop across the interface between a composite system.
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Date: Jul 22, 2002
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Cooling Fundamentals: Dusty Computers
Chances are if you've had your computer for more than six months there is some level of dust inside. While dust under the couch may be bad to look at dust in the computer can cause problems.
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Date: Oct 05, 2000
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Cooling Fundamentals: Thermal Conductivity
Why is Copper better then Aluminum for heatsinks? Thermal Conductivity, that's why! Don't worry, it's all explained here....
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Date: Jun 02, 2000
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Cooling Overview 2004 - High Tech Heatsinks a Plenty
In the following pages you'll see every imaginable shape, material, and size of cooling system and heatsink.
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Date: Oct 18, 2004
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Cooling Overview 2005 - Lower Noise, Better Thermals
Since this 2005 synopsis is mostly
an examination of heatsinks shot at recent trade shows, we'll jump right into the mix.
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Date: Jan 02, 2006
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Coolink H1T Heatsink Review
What makes the Coolink H1T standout from the crowd is first of all its copper base plate.
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Date: Sep 30, 2002
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Coolink H2T Heatsink Review
Does this technique work? Will the Coolink H2T prove itself to be one of those heatsinks we really ought to think about getting for a future upgrade?
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Date: Sep 10, 2002
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Coolink Silentator Heatsink Review
As you'd expect, the Coolink Silentator is a low noise thermal solution based around a low-RPM 120mm fan, with the option to dial down its speed and operate at near whisper quiet sound levels.
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Date: Jul 18, 2007
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Coolink U1L2 Heatsink Review
In an effort
to improve the standard issue socket heatsink, Coolink have done something
a little different.
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Date: Mar 10, 2003
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Coolink U1P2 Heatsink Review
Sitting above the heatsink are two 25mm thick 5000RPM fans. If Coolink have the equation right, the U1P2 should be an interesting heatsink to test out.
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Date: Mar 10, 2003
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Coolink U2L Heatsink Review
This isn't a quiet heatsink in the class of Zalman or
Verax, but it is what I think we are going to start calling
"lower noise."
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Date: Jun 27, 2002
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Coolink U2P Heatsink Review
Built with a body of nickel plated 6063-T5 extruded aluminum and a 2mm thick C1100 copper base, the Coolink U2P already seems pretty formidable by description alone.
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Date: Oct 22, 2002
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CoolIT Domino ALC Liquid Cooling System Review
[NEW!]
The Domino ALC consists of a thin 122gram nickel plated copper waterblock, a 17cm length of Fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) plastic tubing and pump integrated into a 115x115mm aluminum heat exchanger with a 120mm fan.
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Date: Jan 26, 2010
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Cooljag 2QC/180 1U Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The 2QC/180 is actively cooled with a 15mm-thin squirrel cage fan that intakes air through the body of the heatsink, before exhausting it out through another set of copper fins.
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Date: Nov 13, 2004
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Cooljag CJC66IC-A Copper Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
CJC66IC-A heatsink does not reveal itself until the fans' intake air reaches elevated temperatures, and
once that happens, the full speed of the fan kicks in.
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Date: Dec 15, 2003
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Cooljag E44C/180 1U Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The E44C/180 is a fully copper skived heatsink which is actively cooled by a thin squirrel cage fan that rests on top.
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Date: Nov 13, 2004
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Cooljag Falcon 92-Al Heatsink Review
Cooljag are calling this the "best air cooler in the market" we're
going to approach the Falcon 92-AL heatsink with skepticism...
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Date: May 16, 2007
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Cooljag Falcon 92-Cu Heatsink Review
Cooljag's Falcon 92-Cu is built with four 6mm diameter copper heatpipes that conduct heat from the copper plate up through to the array of stacked copper fins above.
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Date: May 17, 2007
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Cooljag JACE2DC/180 1U Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The Cooljag 2QC/180 has an extra set of tall copper fins on either side of the squirrel cage fan, whereas the JACE2DC/180 we are testing here, maintains the same 7mm tall fins from end-to-end.
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Date: Nov 15, 2004
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Cooljag JVC258A V-Type Copper Base Heatsink Review
Not only does the upwards expansion out
allow the heatsink to come equipped with a larger fan, but it also helps induce efficient exhaust judging by the looks of it.
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Date: May 02, 2003
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CoolJag JVC661A V-Type Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Aluminum extrusions have typically been the most popular option, but within the last year and a half skiving has come to market and been adopted widely.
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Date: Jun 13, 2003
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Cooljag OAK-H Radial Skived Copper Fin Heatsink Review
CoolJag's OAK-H heatsink adapts the skived fin technique by turning everything on its side.
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Date: Jan 21, 2007
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Cooljag OAK-H2 (JAC84MC) Radial Skived Fin Heatsink Review
On the plus side, the central copper column makes direct contact with the CPU core, and the skived component which is soldered on to it radiates the heat out into the surroundings so the thermal pathway is pretty direct.
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Date: Jan 21, 2007
Model No.: OAK-H2 (JAC84MC)
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Cooljag SFO-D(18SC) Skived Copper Opteron Heatsink Review
The Cooljag SFO-D(18SC) is a heavy one piece skived copper heatsink intended
for use with AMD Athlon64 and Opteron processors.
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Date: Nov 03, 2005
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Cooljag SFO-H (68YC) Skived Athlon64 Heatsink Review
One of the design elements incorporated into the Cooljag SFO-H (68YC) heatsink are four 17x18mm exhaust ports milled from the copper base plate.
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Date: Nov 13, 2005
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Cooljag SFO-Q Socket AM2 / 939 Heatsink Review
The Cooljag SFO-Q heatsink relies upon a set of 6mm diameter copper heatpipes that connect the copper base to the aluminum fins.
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Date: May 29, 2006
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Coolsonic CS1662K Copper Skive Heatsink Review
Skive technology for those who are unfamiliar with the term is based on a few
principles which make it exceptionally good for heatsinks.
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Date: Feb 05, 2003
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Coolsonic CS1672A Copper Skive Heatsink Review
It's hard not to be a little impressed each time a TMD fan spins up creating
its distinctive whirling sound.
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Date: Feb 05, 2003
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CPUfx Core Heatsink Review
Right out of the box "The Core"
just has to win the coolest-looking heatsink award.
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Date: May 28, 2001
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CPUMate DAA-11500 Copper Heatsink Review
Starting from the outset the CPUmate DAA11500 has all the necessary ingredients to make it an ideal socket A cooler.
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Date: Jun 22, 2003
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CPUmate DIA-10500 Heatpipe P4 Heatsink Review
As a new company in a highly competitive market which is often "cut throat," innovation is the only way to survive, and thrive.
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Date: Jan 28, 2003
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Cryo Tech and New Cooling Technologies You Have Never Seen
I thought it might be fun to depart from the usual pixel fodder and take a brief look at a few cool technologies you have not seen before, touch on some fun tests from the Frostytech unpublished archives, and collect all the thermodynamics research we've reported on.
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Date: Aug 17, 2009
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CuMine Heatsinks - Important Info!
Coppermine's may fit into a socket 370, and may fit older PPGA heatsinks, but there are compatibility issues. Those issues exist with the heatsink, and the clips they use. Get informed, read this.
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Date: Feb 18, 2000
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CV Chill 188-pin Heatsink Review
While aluminum is not as thermally conductive as copper it still offers some very good performance characteristics. And hey, the CV Chill has a nice thick aluminum base.
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Date: Jun 18, 2001
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Cyber Cooler P10K Heatsink Review
It sort of looks like a stock
PIII heatsink, but the performance just isn't here.
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Date: Jul 16, 2002
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Cyber Cooler P5750 Copper Heatsink Review
Cybercooler are a relatively new manufacturer to us, and the P5750 is a good example of what they have to offer.
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Date: May 15, 2002
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DeepCool Ice Blade Pro Heatsink Review
One or two 120mm fans can be mounted to either side of the DeepCool Ice Blade Pro, and rubber vibration
absorbing posts are supplied along with extra fan clips. A single 120mm PWM
fan that operates at 900-1500RPM is supplied.
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Date: Jun 10, 2009
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DeepCool IceWing 5 Pro Heatsink Review
The IceWing 5 Pro heatsink is compatible with Intel socket 775/1366 and AMD socket 939-to-AM3 processors. It features five 6mm diameter copper heatpipes, stands 131mm tall and weighs roughly 670 grams.
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Date: Aug 26, 2009
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DeepCool Killer Whale Heatsink Review
DeepCool's Killer Whale heatsink is a top-down cooler built around two critical things. It has a hefty solid copper heat spreader (base) onto which six 6mm diameter heatpipes have been soldered, and a large and potentially very quiet 48mm thick 120mm PWM fan that spins at 1000-1800RPM.
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Date: Aug 30, 2009
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DeepCool Killer Whale Premium Heatsink Review
The large top-down heatsink has a jaw dropping weight of 1,225grams, or
1.225kg. That's a lot of weight to hang from a CPU socket, so it goes without
saying that rear motherboard support brackets are mandatory!
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Date: Sep 02, 2009
Model No.: Killer Whale Premium
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Dominator 2 Heatsink Review
First there was Dominator and
now there is Dominator 2!
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Date: Oct 24, 2001
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Dominator Microfin Heatsink Review
Microfin or Skived heatsinks are some of the newest and best performing heatsink technologies on the cooling marketplace.
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Date: Oct 01, 2001
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Dynatron A22 V-Shaped Skived Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The heatsink at first appears to be
nothing more than a plain aluminum skived heatsink, but closer examination
reveals a couple very effective innovations, not the least of which are
the V-shaped fins.
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Date: Nov 02, 2005
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Dynatron A41 (SK-V24) V-Shaped Skived Athlon64 Heatsink Review
Designed properly, a skived aluminum heatsink can leave an extruded aluminum heatsink in the dust.
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Date: Oct 31, 2005
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Dynatron DC1206BM-V Copper 1U P4 Heatsink Review
The Dynatron DC1206BMV is made entirely from skived copper; it's low to the ground and cooled by a tiny 10mm thick fan so it can be used in 1U socket 478 Pentium 4 servers.
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Date: May 15, 2002
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Dynatron DC1206BMY Copper Pentium4 Heatsink Review
The significance of skiving is that there is no interface to be concerned with between the fins and base like solder.
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Date: Apr 20, 2003
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Dynatron DC1207BMW Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Dynatron have shown us in the past
that they can innovate, and make rather cool heatsinks.
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Date: Jul 03, 2002
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Dynatron DC1207BMX Copper Pentium4 Heatsink Review
The significance of this set up is that there is
no thermal interface to be concerned with between the fins and baseplate.
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Date: Apr 17, 2003
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Dynatron DC1U-B01 1U Copper Heatsink Review
Has Dynatron figured out the
secret to making the worlds best 1U socket A heatsink, or are we looking
at something which just makes the grade?
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Date: Apr 17, 2003
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Dynatron DC1U-B02 1U Copper Heatsink Review
As there is generally no more than about 30mm of height for the entire cooling package, fans will obviously take up precious real estate. For Socket 478 Intel processors.
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Date: Apr 20, 2003
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Dynatron DY1206BH-625 Copper Heatsink Review
Heatsinks with high speed fans and copper bodies are like fast cars with big engines.
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Date: Mar 30, 2002
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Dynatron Model P Skived Copper Heatsink Review
The Model P heatsink from Dynatron is a full copper skived heatsink with a very powerful, and very noisy Delta fan.
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Date: Apr 30, 2002
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Dynatron Model S Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The heatsink arrived at our test labs with a clear
plastic protective cover and white thermal compound pre applied.
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Date: Jan 21, 2002
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Dynatron Model-638 Copper Heatsink Review
If you haven't already heard
of Dynatron then you really don't know your performance heatsinks very
well.
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Date: Oct 04, 2001
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Dynatron Model-L Microfin Heatsink Review
Needless to say, when we opened up the generic white box the DC1206BM-L comes in, we weren't expecting to be surprised in the way we were.
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Date: Jul 31, 2001
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Dynatron Model-O Copper Microfin Heatsink
With the Dynatron Model-O, both fins and base are made from one solid piece of copper.
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Date: Aug 05, 2001
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Dynatron Model-R 1U Cu Microfin Heatsink Review
The market for 1U servers is increasing rapidly these days as data centers increasingly move away from the bulky 3U and 5U servers that were once the
staple of websites.
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Date: Aug 10, 2001
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EKL Alphenfohn GroB Clock ner Blue Edition Heatsink Review
The EKL Alphenfohn GroB Clock ner Blue Edition heatsink is unique for a
couple reasons...
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Date: Oct 06, 2008
Model No.: Alphenfohn GroB Clock ner Blue Edition
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EKL Alphenfohn GroB Clock ner Heatsink Review
The Alphenfohn GroB Clock ner
heatsink on the test bench today is a heatpipe direct contact cooler -
meaning the heatpipes are exposed at the base.
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Date: Oct 02, 2008
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EKL V8 AMD Athlon64 Heatsink Review
As we examine the EKL V8 heatsink more closely it will be with the intent of determining just how well it handles the heat when low noise levels are maintained.
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Date: Dec 18, 2005
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Enzotech Ultra-X Heatsink Review
We might as well get to the point in the first sentence of this review, the Enzotech Ultra-X performs really well on Intel and AMD processor platforms with its fan at full speed.
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Date: Feb 18, 2007
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Eumax B605-01 Copper Heatsink Review
The Eumax B605-01 is a full copper heatsink which has received a nice
nickel plating for that shiny, "I'm gonna get you sucka!" look.
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Date: Apr 29, 2003
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Eumax DW-45 Copper Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
However, just like adding a super fast fan to an everyday heatsink to improve cooling performance, making that same heatsink out of just copper is another
shortcut.
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Date: Jan 27, 2003
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Eumax EU01 Copper Heatsink Review
As the Eumax EU01 is composed of two separate sets of components - a copper base and many thin copper fins - the thermal interface between these two components is very important.
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Date: Feb 05, 2003
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Evercool Buffalo HPFA-10025 AMD Heatsink Review
Evercool's Buffalo HPFA-10025 heatsink is made from a simple mix of "U" shaped copper heatpipes and 60 stacked aluminum fins...
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Date: Jun 24, 2007
Model No.: Buffalo HPFA-10025
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Evercool CUF-715 Copper AthlonXP Heatsink Review
This compact Socket A copper heatsink comes with
all the features you'd expect from a mainstream cooler; copper base, copper
fins, good sized fan, and even a fan guard.
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Date: Feb 22, 2004
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Evercool CUW8-715 Copper Heatsink Review
The choice becomes even more complicated when you have heatsink
manufacturers adapting K7 cooler designs for the Pentium 4, or simply building P4 heatsinks to fit K7
requirements.
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Date: Mar 09, 2004
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Evercool Forumula 2 VC-RHE Videocard Heatsink Review
The Evercool VC-RHE Formula 2 weighs in at 232 grams, stands 35mm above the GPU (it will occupy one additional PCI slot worth of space) and uses a single 80mm fan to quietly keep a broad range of mainstream videocards running cool.
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Date: Apr 20, 2009
Model No.: Forumula 2 VC-RHE
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Evercool HPK-10025EA Intel Heatsink Review
In this review Frostytech will be testing a low profile Intel socket 775/1366 heatsink that is ideal for 2U hight small formfactor PCs and media center microATX-style cases.
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Date: Nov 07, 2009
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Evercool K802-715CA Athlon64 Heatsink Review
Consumers investigating this model from Evercool had best limit its application to lower model number socket 754/939 Athlon64/Sempron CPUs.
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Date: Sep 15, 2005
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Evercool Magic Cooler MAG01CA Heatsink Review
Will its compact 70mm fan deliver enough airflow? Can its slim 4mm thick disk of copper set into the base really make any difference?
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Date: Oct 29, 2005
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Evercool ND18-715 Heatsink Review
This is not a silent heatsink, but it is fairly low on the noise levels which
is always a welcome aspect.
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Date: Oct 24, 2002
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Evercool ND19715CA Copper-Core Heatsink Review
While the ND19715CA isn't a true silent heatsink since it
measures in at over 40dB, it does manage to operate will low-to-moderate noise levels.
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Date: Apr 29, 2003
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Evercool NP-301-WH Zodiac Aluminum Cooling Pad Overview
A great many of those big 17" desktop replacement notebooks run hot, particularly legacy laptops with Intel Pentium 4 processors under the hood.
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Date: Oct 19, 2008
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Evercool NW11F Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
The Evercool NW11F-CLB825CA/LD2 is a socket 478 Pentium 4 heatsink based on a fairly standard design principle.
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Date: Jun 05, 2005
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Evercool NW9F715CA Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
The heatsink breaks with tradition and features an extruded aluminum
heatsink with soldered-in copper base insert.
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Date: Jun 22, 2003
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Evercool PT02-9232CP Bifurcated Fin Heatsink
Evercool's PT02-9232CP heatsink produces 63.3 dB noise unless there is PWM circuitry on the motherboard to rein it in.
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Date: Nov 16, 2006
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Evercool SCPA Fan Controller and ECS Review
The Evercool SCP-A falls into that category with three
dials surrounded by a changing colour fixture.
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Date: Feb 16, 2004
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Evercool Transformer 5 HPJ-12025 Heatsink Review
On the test bench today is a new dual 120mm fan heatsink from Evercool called the Transformer 4 HPJ-12025. Its twin fans are arranged in a push-pull configuration and rotate at a leisurely 1000RPM.
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Date: Oct 07, 2009
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Evercool Transformer 6 Heatsink Review
Evercool has built the Transformer 6 out of three individual aluminum cooling fin segments, toped by a glistening silver 120mm fan mounted on vibration absorbing rubber posts.
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Date: Oct 14, 2008
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Forcetake MARS RAM Cooler Review
For anyone who believes that overheating memory is the root cause of system instability, Forcetake's Mars RAM Coolers may be just the trick.
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Date: Sep 09, 2008
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Fortis Tech A102 Heatsink Review
Fortis Tech have been making their name known this year with a line of copper/aluminum hybrid coolers packing high-RPM fans.
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Date: Oct 18, 2001
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Fortis Tech A92 Heatsink Review
Compared to the multitude of thin-fin copper coolers entering the marketplace a 0.5mm thick-fin aluminum/copper hybrid cooler looks surprisingly unique.
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Date: Sep 30, 2001
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Fortis Tech A93 Copper Heatsink Review
The design of the Fortis Tech A93 is pretty
simple with copper fins soldered to a punched out copper base.
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Date: Dec 22, 2002
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Fortis Tech Monster 90 Heatsink Review
At the heart of no less than two outer rims of extruded
aluminum, lies a copper core.
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Date: Dec 19, 2002
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Foxconn Generic Socket A Heatsink Review
This isn't the best way of adding a copper heatspreader to an all aluminum extrusion heatsink, but it is one of the least expensive and simple ways to go about achieving that feature.
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Date: Jun 21, 2003
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Frosty ACPSink
The Frosty ACPSink
is a one of a kind Athlon heatsink. It's made from
an aluminum plate and sixty-odd sections of imbedded copper pipe.
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Date: Sep 09, 2000
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Frosty CopperPins Heatsink
There is nothing like the sight of a solid copper heatsink atop ones' heavily overclocked CPU.... in fact is there anything comparable? We made one, then tested it.
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Date: Jun 28, 2000
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Frosty CopperSink
Ever wanted a fully copper heatsink for your overclocking rig? We've got the Frosty CopperSink... This is a beast to be sure, so read more to find out how to get one for yourself.
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Date: May 09, 2000
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Frosty Glowy Geforce 4 Mod: How to do it
Sometimes we get the oddest ideas for mods, and while this isn't something we
devote too much time too around here, the Glowy GeForce mod turned out kind of cool.
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Date: Jun 21, 2002
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Frosty Investigates: Surface Mapped Athlon
We take an Athlon, crack it open, measure everything to 0.0001", then make a colourful diagram showing just how unflat the most important bit is. Interested? Read on.
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Date: May 18, 2000
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FrostyTech GF4TEC Active Heatsink
This is a custom thermoelectric cooled heatsink for the GeForce 4 videocard!!
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Date: May 23, 2002
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Gelid Solutions Silent Spirit Heatsink Review
Gelid's Silent Spirit heatsink makes use of four rubber vibration absorbing posts to hold a 100mm PWM fan in place, the fan itself varies in speed from 2400RPM to 900RPM.
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Date: Dec 29, 2008
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Gigabyte 3D Rocket Cooler PCU22-SE Heatsink Review
The Gigabyte PCU22-SE is configured to work on the socket 462/A AthlonXP, socket 478 & 775 Pentium 4,
and socket 754/940/939 Athlon64 processors.
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Date: Nov 22, 2004
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Gigabyte 3D Rocket Cooler-Pro PCU22-VG Heatsink Review
The heatsink comes with a fan speed controller that allows you to dial in the speed (and noise) of the cooling fan to suit the situation.
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Date: May 14, 2006
Model No.: 3D Rocket Cooler-Pro PCU22-VG
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Gigabyte 3D Rocket II Cooler GH-PCU23-VE Heatsink Review
The Gigabyte 3D Rocket II GH-PCU23-VE heatsink FrostyTech is testing in this review can cool quietly when needed, and also ramps up for major heat loads.
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Date: Oct 19, 2006
Model No.: 3D Rocket II GH-PCU23-VE
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Gigabyte 3DCooler-Pro PCU21-VG Heatsink Review
The 3DCooler-Pro is an an all-in-one aluminum and
copper heatsink designed to support all processors currently available.
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Date: Mar 02, 2004
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Gigabyte 3DCooler-Ultra PCU31-VH Heatsink Review
Weighing in at 780 grams, the Gigabyte PCU31-VH 3DCooler-Ultra certainly lives up to its name, performing in the top percentile...
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Date: Mar 26, 2004
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Gigabyte G-Power Pro GH-PDU21-MF Heatsink Review
The Gigabyte G-Power Pro heatsink is a radical design that works very well at medium to high fan speeds. The heatsink is designed to work on AMD Athlon64 socket 754/939/940, Intel Pentium 4 socket 775/478, and AMD K7 socket 462/A/370 processors.
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Date: Dec 07, 2005
Model No.: G-Power Pro GH-PDU21-MF
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Gigabyte Neon Cooler 8-BL Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The copper pad is set into a machined recess in the aluminum base and helps to transfer heat energy from an AMD Athlon64 processor's IHS to the surrounding heatsink more efficiently.
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Date: Nov 06, 2005
Model No.: Neon Cooler 8-BL
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Gigabyte Volar GH-PSV21-FB Heatsink Review
Gigabyte's Volar heatsink has a 120mm smokey grey fan has rather large impeller blades that look as if they'll propel air into the cooling fins of its donut shape heatsink with quiet force.
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Date: Jan 01, 2008
Model No.: Volar GH-PSV21-FB
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Glacialtech F101 PWM Heatsink Review
The Glacialtech F101 PWM heatsink is built around a simple concept; use the space over the motherboard chipset for extra cooling fins.
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Date: Dec 31, 2009
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GlacialTech Igloo 2310 Heatsink Review
A simple aluminum extrusion and fan are complimented by a sandblasted finish and pre-applied patch of silver-based thermal compound.
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Date: Mar 24, 2002
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GlacialTech Igloo 2400 Heatsink Review
GlacialTech manufacture inexpensive OEM class heatsinks of a fairly standard design, although they add a few things to make them stand out on the shelf.
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Date: Aug 19, 2002
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GlacialTech Igloo 3300 Heatsink Review
Conversely, the standard socket A versions need only be cut to size, and a space cut for the clip to sit in.
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Date: Aug 20, 2002
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GlacialTech Igloo 4300 Heatsink Review
As with other Glacialtech heatsinks, the Igloo 4300 uses fairly thin
fins of varying height to dissipate the heat.
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Date: Nov 27, 2002
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Glacialtech Igloo 5057 E Heatsink Review
The Glacialtech Igloo 5057 E is a socket 775 Intel heatsink for Pentium D, Core 2 Duo and Celeron processors. Owing to its all-aluminum construction, the Igloo 5057E is probably best used on sub-90W processors.
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Date: Nov 01, 2007
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Glacialtech Igloo 5058 Light E Heatsink Review
This is a fairly compact socket 775 cooler, made just of extruded aluminum with an 80mm fan atop. The Glacialtech Igloo 5058 Light E is rated for 35W Celeron, 65W Core 2 Duo and 95W Core 2 Quad processors...
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Date: Aug 25, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 5058 Light E
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Glacialtech Igloo 5062 Cu Light Heatsink Review
The real question of the day is whether a 28mm diameter copper slug at the bottom of this Glacialtech heatsink can actually improve it.
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Date: Nov 01, 2007
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Glacialtech Igloo 5063 Cu Silent E Heatsink Review
This Intel socket 775 heatsink
is made of extruded aluminum with a 28mm copper core at the center,
the copper base has a pre-applied patch of Shin-Etsu thermal compound
applied.
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Date: Aug 29, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 5063 Cu Silent E
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Glacialtech Igloo 5063 Light E Heatsink Review
The Glacialtech Igloo 5063 Light E heatsink stands 67mm tall and comes with a fixed speed 80mm fan that rotates at a quiet 2600RPM.
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Date: Aug 27, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 5063 Light E
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Glacialtech Igloo 5610 Plus Silent Heatsink Review
The Igloo 5610 Plus Silent ships with two 92mm fans, each spinning at 1200RPM but arranged in a push-pull fashion. A pre-applied patch of shinetsu thermal compound on the base of the heatsink means it's ready to go.
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Date: Dec 02, 2009
Model No.: Igloo 5610 Plus Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 5610 PWM Heatsink Review
Glacialtech's Igloo 5610 PWM heatsink weighs just 373grams, and in Frostytech's real world tests ranges from 45.4 to 59.5 dBA in noise output. The heatsink stands 100mm tall, and ships with a pre-applied patch of thermal compound on its base.
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Date: Dec 01, 2007
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Glacialtech Igloo 5610 Silent Heatsink Review
The Glacialtech Igloo 5610 Silent heatsink is identical the Igloo 5610 PWM model in all ways, except that the two coolers use different fans.
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Date: Dec 03, 2007
Model No.: Igloo 5610 Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 5710 Plus Silent Heatsink Review
Glacialtech's Igloo 5710 Plus Silent is an economical low noise heatsink for Intel socket 775/1366 and AMD socket 939/AM2/AM3 processors.
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Date: Dec 20, 2009
Model No.: Igloo 5710 Plus Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 5710 Silent Heatsink Review
Glacialtech's Igloo 5710 Silent heatsink is built to be a cost effective and low noise thermal solution for socket 775 Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon64 (socket 939/AM2) processors.
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Date: Dec 04, 2007
Model No.: Igloo 5710 Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 5750 PWM Heatsink Review
In this review Frostytech is testing out Glacialtech's new Igloo 5750 PWM
heatsink - a versatile CPU cooler with twin Pulse Width Modulation
controlled 92mm fans.
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Date: Dec 27, 2007
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Glacialtech Igloo 5750 Silent Heatsink Review
The idea is that one relatively low RPM fan is going to have a hard time maintaining a good volume of airflow through the heatsinks' fins, so the second helps draw the warmed air through and alleviate any loss in velocity.
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Date: Dec 27, 2007
Model No.: Igloo 5750 Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 7222 Light Athlon64 Heatsink Review
The Glacialtech Igloo 7222 Light heatsink is ideal for energy efficient Socket AM2 AMD processors, or older socket 754/939/940 CPUs.
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Date: Oct 27, 2007
Model No.: Igloo 7222 Light
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Glacialtech Igloo 7223 Light E Heatsink Review
A
funny thing happened to CPUs recently, some of them got a lot more power efficient and a lot cooler. A few AMD Athlon and Phenom processors are pushing out as little as 80W, others as little as 65W or even 45W!
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Date: Sep 11, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 7223 Light E
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Glacialtech Igloo 7311 Silent Athlon64 Heatsink Review
In this review Frostytech will be examining the Glacialtech Igloo
7311 Silent AMD Athlon 64 heatsink.
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Date: Oct 29, 2007
Model No.: Igloo 7311 Silent
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Glacialtech Igloo 7312 Silent E Heatsink Review
You can save a lot of money on the CPU heatsink if you know that a processor with a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of under 90W doesn't require a $80 heatsink.
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Date: Sep 15, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 7312 Silent E
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Glacialtech Igloo 7321 Silent E Heatsink Review
The Igloo 7321 Silent E is a moderately compact AMD K8 heatsink, made just of extruded aluminum and an 80mm fan. The Glacialtech Igloo 7321 Silent E is rated for a maximum load of 89W.
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Date: Sep 13, 2008
Model No.: Igloo 7321 Silent E
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GlacialTech UFO V51 Silent Heatsink Review
At it's core, Glacialtech have equipped the 136mm tall UFO V51 Silent heatsink with two 1600RPM fans surrounding a large aluminum fin array, and framed in by a plastic casing that acts like a shroud to duct air through it. The heatsink weighs 780grams and is compatible with both Intel socket 775, 1366 and the entire family of AMD socket 939/AM3 processors.
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Date: May 20, 2009
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Globalwin CAK38 Copper Heatsink
Right now the Globalwin CAK38 is one of the top-tier copper socket A coolers available. It weighs in at 450g and comes with an almost unbeatable
6800 RPM Delta 60mm fan.
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Date: May 13, 2001
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Globalwin CAK4-76T Copper Heatsink Review
When installed properly, the thermistor should be able to sense the temperature at the base of the heatsink and adjust fan RPM to compensate.
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Date: Dec 22, 2002
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Globalwin CAK4-86 Copper Heatsink Review
True performance coolers are starting to fall by the wayside as consumers have gradually picked up the call to arms for quieter, low-noise cooling over raw fan power, and high decibels.
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Date: Dec 22, 2002
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Globalwin CAK4-88T Copper Heatsink Review
Since the copper skive
portion of the Globalwin CAK4-88T is just 70mm in size, Globalwin have added
an 80mm-70mm fan adaptor.
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Date: Jun 29, 2003
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Globalwin CDK38 Copper Heatsink Review
For its fins the Globalwin CDK38 uses sheets of 0.5mm thick copper which have
been dip brazed/soldered to the base plate along their edges.
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Date: Sep 02, 2002
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Globalwin CPS25603-16 Heatsink Review
Choosing an OEM class heatsink means you get an inexpensive heatsink with questionable performance characteristics.
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Date: Apr 30, 2001
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Globalwin TAK68 Heatsink Review
Thermal performance can be a bit tricky to peg down with this kind of heatsink.
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Date: Sep 15, 2002
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Globalwin VA476 Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Designed around a thick copper base, and lightweight set of nickel-plated aluminum fins, the VA476 certainly looks as though it has good breading.
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Date: Aug 06, 2002
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GlobalWin WBK-38 Heatsink Review
What better heatsink to top off the newly release 900Mhz Duron than the GlobalWin WBK-38?
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Date: Apr 03, 2001
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Goliath Copper Heatsink Review
Both sets of fans are highspeed and 32mm thick so you can be sure that
noise will a guaranteed factor in our decision.
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Date: Dec 19, 2001
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Guide To Cheap Tweaking Supplies
Ever wonder where the best stuff for overclocking can be found for next to nothing? We lay out the road map for where to get stuff cheap. Have a read and Save a few bucks!
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Date: Jan 12, 2000
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Guide To Lapping your CPU
The new Copper-Top Celeron! No, just our test Celeron after we tweaked it a wee bit. The results of our tests surprised even us... but the outcome didn't ;-)
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Date: Dec 30, 1999
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Guide To Making a Glowy Fan
The ultimate modded component it may not be, but behind the grill of any case it's definitely one of the coolest.
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Date: Oct 12, 2001
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Guide To Making Thermistors
Everyone wants to know exactly how hot their processor is running. Thermistors tell us this - but where do you get them? Is there an alternative to expensive retail prices... You bet!
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Date: Jan 12, 2000
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Guide To Making Thermistors: Updated
We've had some great responses to the "How to make a thermistor
out of a laptop battery". It seems there is great interest, so lets' look at a couple of points in a little more detail.
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Date: Feb 03, 2000
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Heatpipe Wick Structures Exposed: Sintered, Groove and Mesh
It's impossible to tell what type of wick a heatpipe uses in your
favourite heatsink just by looking at it from the outside. The
heatpipe would need to be cut open to find out the answer to that question....
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Date: Nov 03, 2009
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How Manufacturers Test Heatsinks & Thermal Compound
Have you ever wondered how a heatsink manufacturer tests its new heatsinks to ensure what you buy will do the job?
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Date: Jan 02, 2006
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Ibuypower IBP-Z001 Liquid Cooling System Review
IbuyPower's IBP-Z001 self-contained liquid cooling system. The unit consists of a copper waterblock with integrated pump, a short length of 1/2-inch ID Norprene tubing and heat exchanger with 120mm PWM fan.
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Date: Dec 04, 2008
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Intel FCLGA4-S Core 2 Extreme Reference Heatsink Review
Let's spend some quality time with Intel's newest 45nm Core 2 Extreme
class reference cooler and find out if it's better than every heatsink ever made, or not.
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Date: May 07, 2008
Model No.: FCLGA4-S reference heatsink
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Intel Stock 3.06GHz Copper/Aluminum Heatsink Review
Assembled from one 9mm copper base and
many thin aluminum fins, the process used is called swagging.
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Date: Sep 08, 2003
Model No.: Stock 3.06GHz Intel
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Intel Stock Core 2 Duo E4xxx Radial Curved Bifurcated Fin Heatsink
In this review Frostytech is evaluating the stock heatsink that accompanies the majority of Intel Core 2 Duo E4xxx series processors (specifically, the E4400 model).
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Date: Nov 12, 2008
Model No.: E4xxx Series Stock Heatsink
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Intel Stock Core 2 Duo Radial Curved Bifurcated Fin Heatsink Review
The Intel RCBFH design is engineered to be cheap to produce, easy to install, and thermally efficient. This is the stock Core 2 Duo heatsink, and it is generally speaking a well designed mass-produced cooler.
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Date: Jun 24, 2007
Model No.: stock Core 2 Duo heatsink
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Intel Stock Pentium D Radial Curved non-Bifurcated Fin Heatsink Review
Intel's own Radial Curved non-Bifurcated Fin Heatsink (RCBFH) reference solution is a fairly well designed cooler.
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Date: Nov 11, 2006
Model No.: Reference Pentium D
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Intels Stock Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Any heatsink that performs above the stock Intel
heatsink is improving on the guidelines set forth for Pentium 4 heatsinks..
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Date: Dec 12, 2001
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Jetart JAK801 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
It might be a little strange to be testing out a Socket 754 AMD Athlon64 heatsink, but there are plenty of single-channel DDR Socket 754 processors still out there...
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Date: Oct 24, 2005
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Jetart JAKS29 Copper Heatsink Review
As if that weren't sufficient enough, after soldering the fins to the copper base the entire copper fin assembly has then been plated in copper!
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Date: Dec 28, 2003
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Jetart JAP407A Copper Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
On the plus side, the JAP407A boasts a
nice machined base, copper fins, and a good strong 25mm thick fan up top.
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Date: Dec 19, 2003
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Jetart JAP416A Pentium 4 Heatsink Review
Surprisingly, the all aluminum Jetart JAP416A follows in the footsteps of the performance heatsinks and manages to offer very competitive thermal performance statistics indeed.
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Date: Dec 19, 2003
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JMC 400074 Skyjet 70 Radial Fin Heatsink Review
From our standpoint the visual similarities between
this radial heatsink and the obs of long ago are pretty superficial.
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Date: Mar 31, 2003
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JMC 400094 Socket 478 Heatsink Review
The actual heatsink is composed of two parts; the
first being the central fined extrusion, and the second being the base plate.
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Date: Oct 14, 2002
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JMC 400124 Phoenix 60 Radial Fin P4 Heatsink
Based on similar techniques which were used by Agilent Technologies for their Arcticooler heatsinks a while
back, the JMC 400124 Phoenix 60 even carries the same logo.
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Date: Apr 10, 2003
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JMC 401100 Phoenix 70 Radial Fin Heatsink Review
The original Agilent heatsink
was made for socket 370 Pentium III processors, but this version is intended for use with socket 478 Pentium 4's.
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Date: Mar 24, 2003
Model No.: Phoenix 70 401100
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JMC Arctic Blast 400023 Heatsink Review
The Arctic Blast heatsink we are looking at today is rated for just an Athlon XP of up to 1.53GHz (PIII CuMine to 1.1GHz).
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Date: Mar 24, 2002
Model No.: Arctic Blast 400023
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JMC Arctic Ice 400011 Heatsink Review
JMC strike back in time with the Arctic Ice which is packaged with socket 423 mounting hardware.
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Date: Apr 05, 2002
Model No.: Arctic Ice 400011
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Kingwin XT-1264 Heatsink Review
Kingwin's XT-1264 is the first tower-style heatsink to pass through the Frostytech test labs which incorporates asymmetrical U-shaped heatpipes. In other words the heatpipes are not even, rather one length of each vertical heatpipe is 30mm shorter than the opposite.
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Date: Aug 13, 2009
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Kuthtec KTI2000 P4 Heatsink Review
Kuthtec have brought in a little extra innovation and added some bottom cooling fins and a venting cut to the side.
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Date: Oct 24, 2002
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Kuthtec KTM2001 Honeycomb Copper Core Heatsink Rev
So while the KTM2101 has 1mm spaced fins, all the cooling on this heatsink occurs within the 120 or so "multi wind tunnels."
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Date: Nov 11, 2002
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Kuthtec KTM2101 CHAOS Copper Core Heatsink Review
The swiss cheese appearance of the horizontally mounted cooling fins
will give anyone cause for pause, but the central copper core should reassure
you that this heatsink is built for one reason.
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Date: Nov 11, 2002
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Kuthtec KTM3000 Copper Core Heatsink Review
Kuthtec use a larger copper center than most manufacturers, extending it the full 30mm height of the heatsink,
30mm.
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Date: Nov 11, 2002
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Lasagna BGA cooler
Lasagna coolers have been popping up on the finer BGA chipsets out there, too bad OEM's aren't taking notice. Any way, read our review and see if it right for you.
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Date: Jun 16, 2000
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LS Cable SHS-T700 Heatsink Review
The LS Cable SHS-T700 heatsink is compatible with socket 775 Intel Pentium 4/D, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors.
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Date: Feb 18, 2007
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Mil-Spec Aerospace Fan on Scythe Orochi Heatsink - Big just got bigger!
In this article Frostytech is going to have some fun with the Orochi and conduct a little experiment with the help of one very powerful mil-spec IMC Magnetics fan.
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Date: Mar 10, 2008
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Millennium Thermal Glaciator Copper Heatsink
The Glaciator is an "Integrated Augmented Fan Heatsink". Constructed from a solid block of copper, the fin section of this heatsink is so finely constructed...
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Date: Jul 08, 2001
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Molex 371660003 Silent Heatsink Review
Molex may be better known for their little plastic electrical connectors, but amongst all their other ventures
they have in their inventory a silent heatsink.
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Date: Jul 11, 2001
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Nanocomposite Thermal Compound Review
In this day and age, it isn't good enough to just have the fastest fan and
biggest heatsink. Attention must be paid to the little things in life...
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Date: Aug 27, 2001
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Neng Tyi K612 Cu/Al Heatsink Review
In this review we take a look at a hybrid copper / aluminum
cooler designed to handle AMD T-bird's and Coppermine processors.
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Date: Feb 18, 2001
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Neng Tyi K614 Full-Copper Heatsink Review
Long before the Thermalright SK6 made it onto the market, the all copper Neng Tyi K614 was there.
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Date: Aug 03, 2001
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Neng Tyi KA06 Cu-Al Heatsink Review
An outer frame of thicker aluminum plate provides the means for the Nidec fan to be attached and keep the aluminum fins in place. The fins are formed in such a way that they are all interlocked.
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Date: May 29, 2001
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Neng Tyi NW6700 Copper Socket 478 Heatsink Review
In terms of cooling hot chips copper is better than gold, literally.
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Date: Apr 15, 2002
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Neng Tyi P365 Lil' Turbine Heatsink Review
One good way to do that is to slap on a massive copper heatsink with a massive Nidec Beta SL fan. At this point the only thing cooler would be to turn off your machine...
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Date: Feb 28, 2001
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Neng Tyi SN03 Copper Heatsink Review
At a listed weight of 666 grams you have wonder if black magic wasn't involved in the creation of this devilishly heavy copper heatsink from Neng Tyi.
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Date: May 15, 2001
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Neng Tyi SN05 Copper-Based Heatsink Review
Neng Tyi's SN05 heatsink is similar to their massive all-copper SN03 model except that it uses much lighter aluminum fins to reduce the overall weight.
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Date: Aug 26, 2001
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Neng Tyi Subete Doda Review
Neng Tyi may not be on the tip of most hard core cooling fanatics minds' but what it lacks in brand recognition it
makes up for in power... solid copper power!
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Date: Jan 31, 2001
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Neng Tyi XPC5000 Copper Heatsink Review
With the full-copper XPC5000,
NengTyi have made something rather eye catching.
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Date: Apr 15, 2002
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NengTyi K609 Heatsink Review
Armed with a Nidec fan, the K609 was better equipped than many other heatsinks of this class, but as time and thermal loads have moved on, so to has the performance potential of this heatsink.
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Date: Mar 19, 2002
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NengTyi K613 Copper Heatsink Review
Built around a
full copper body, the NengTyi K613 was once intended to cool down toasty Socket
370 Celeron processors.
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Date: Jun 22, 2002
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NengTyi KA03 Copper Heatsink Review
The copper fins have been bonded to the base of this heatsink with solder making for what should be a very efficient thermal interface.
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Date: Jan 22, 2003
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NengTyi P326 Copper Heatsink Review
Built on a thick copper base with aluminum fins,
the NengTyi P326 may just have some life left in it for cooling...
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Date: Sep 22, 2002
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Nexus BeamAir 120mm Fan Airflow Straightener Overview
In wind tunnels, stacks of thin
aluminum honeycomb cells are used to straighten the airflow for aerodynamic experiments.
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Date: Oct 16, 2008
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Nexus HOC-9000 Heatpipe On CPU Heatsink Review
Nexus'HOC-9000 heatsink, a medium height lower noise cooler for Intel socket 775 and AMD socket 754/939/940/AM2+ processors.
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Date: Jul 22, 2008
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Noctua NH-U12 Low Noise Heatsink Review
The large 155mm tall heatsink resembles a Soviet-era apartment block and optimized for use with large fans which can operate very quietly.
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Date: Feb 27, 2006
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Noctua NH-C12P Heatsink Review
Tower heatsinks may offer the best
performance of any heatsink style, but many computer cases can't accommodate +140mm CPU cooler heights. 'Down exhaust' or 'impingment' heatsinks are so named because the fan blows downward.
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Date: May 20, 2008
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Noctua NH-U12P Low Noise Heatsink Review
Noctua's NH-U12P heatsink in
one of the few models to breakthrough the low noise handicap and actually perform like a high performance heatsink.
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Date: Dec 02, 2007
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Noctua NH-U9 Low Noise Heatsink Review
The 38 nickel-plated aluminum cooling fins are connected by four copper heat pipes to a copper base plate that pushes the overall weight to 570grams.
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Date: Feb 28, 2006
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Noctua NH-U9B Low Noise Heatsink Review
This time around, Noctua nickel plate
all copper surfaces and bundle in the super quiet NF-B9 fan - and it's
not your average vaneaxial fan either.
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Date: Apr 28, 2008
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NoiseControl Silverado Heatsink Review
Tomshardware brought a lot of attention to the Noisecontrol
Silverado when they originally reviewed it.
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Date: May 30, 2002
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nPowertek NPH 775-1 Socket 775 Heatsink Review
The NPH 775-1 heatsink weighs in at 615 grams, making it a pretty heavy candidate for Intel LGA775 processor cooling.
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Date: Nov 16, 2006
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nPowerTek NPH SF775-2 Radial Fin Socket 775 Heatsink Review
The nPowertek SF 775-2 heatsink features a body made of copper fins which have been wrapped around a central copper slug.
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Date: Dec 13, 2006
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nPowertek NPH-1000 Heatsink Review
nPowertek's NPH-1000 heatsink is a predominantly copper heatsink with an aluminum base, four heatpipes and a 95mm fan. The heatsink is compatible with AMD Athlon64 socket 754/939/940 & AM2 sockets, and Intel Core 2 Duo.
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Date: Jul 04, 2007
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nPowerTek NPH-775-140HC Heatsink Review
The Thermal Transtech International Corp. (TTIC) nPowerTek NPH-775-140HC heatsink is a deceptively simple combination of copper heat column and aluminum fins.
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Date: Sep 08, 2008
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nPowertek TTIC NPH K8-1 Heatsink Review
NPH K8-1 Socket 939 heatsink looks deceptively simple at first glance;
but at the heart of this socket 754/939/940 Athlon64 heatsink is a huge
copper cylinder.
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Date: May 17, 2006
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nPowerTek TTIC NPH-1 Heatpipe Heatsink Review
The heatsink looks fairly unremarkable from the outside, but at the center
sits a 25mm diameter copper heatpipe which gives the NPH-1 some really serious kick.
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Date: Sep 15, 2003
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nPowerTek TTIC NPH-101 Pentium4 Heatsink Review
The large heat column stands 100mm tall, and comes in direct contact with the processor core. The hollow copper heat column works because of a chemically coated interior surface.
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Date: Aug 08, 2004
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nPowerTek TTIC NPH-2 Heatpipe Heatsink Review
The first Thermal Transtech
International Corp. heatsink we tested performed quiet admirably, and so it
is with high expectations that we look upon the Socket A NPH-2 model
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Date: Dec 25, 2003
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nPowerTek TTIC NPH-201 Socket A Heatsink Review
This column, 25mm in diameter and made from a hollow copper cylinder, has a chemical coating on the inside that works to the same effect as a wick in a traditional heatpipe...
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Date: Aug 30, 2004
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nPowerTek TTIC NPH-K8 Big Heatsink Review
The 148mm tall copper heat column absorbs heat from the processor core, transferring it up through the center of approximately 45 thick gauge aluminum cooling fins of 125 x 77mm in size.
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Date: Jan 21, 2007
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OCZ Gladiator II Copper Skive Heatsink Review
In any case, the Gladiator II is made by the latter and sold
by the former for a pretty inexpensive price all things
considered.
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Date: Jun 01, 2003
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OCZ Gladiator MAX Heatsink Review
OCZ's Gladiator Max heatsink is an extension of the Vendetta 2 model, except that it now utilizes four large diameter copper heatpipes and a somewhat different aluminum fin geometry.
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Date: Sep 30, 2008
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OCZ Tempest Heatsink Review
After a long absence from all things heatsink related, OCZ is back in the game with a compact little multi-socket heatsink called the Tempest. The design relies heavily on copper components...
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Date: Jul 27, 2006
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OCZ Vendetta 2 Exposed Heatpipe Base Heatsink Review
The Vendetta 2 heatsink is decked out for stealth in a couple different ways; for starters the fan is held in place with vibration absorbing rubber fan posts. It also features three large copper heatpipes that make direct contact with the CPU.
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Date: May 13, 2008
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OCZ Vendetta Exposed Heatpipe-Base Heatsink Review
Instead of soldering on a bulky copper base plate, the Vendetta heatsink takes advantage of the superior heat conducting capabilities of heat pipes to efficiently
move heat from the processor
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Date: Dec 30, 2007
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Overclocking with CuPins Heatsink
For those without the guts to make their own heatsinks, here are all the overclocking results with the Frosty CuPins Heatsink.. impressive..
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Date: Jun 28, 2000
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Overclocking with the ACPSink
It's one of a kind design was as of yet unproven, so the time to prove it had arrived. In moments we would bolt the ACPsink onto a 550 Mhz Athlon to see if all the hard work had not been in vain.
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Date: Sep 09, 2000
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Overclocking with the CopperSink
Testing is done on the Overclocking with our Frosty CopperSink. We made it, it's solid copper. So what! Does it do the job? H'mmm, I think I'll let you be the judge.
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Date: May 17, 2000
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Prolimatech Megahalems Heatsink Review
Frostytech won't string you along; the Prolimatech Megahalems heatsink is indeed one of the very best performing CPU coolers we've ever tested.
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Date: Jan 02, 2010
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