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Tocools Crown Retail Heatsink Review
Tocools Crown Retail Heatsink Review
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Abstract: he Crown heatsink from Tocools is one of the more interesting adaptations of an extruded heatsink.

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Tocools   Cooling / Heatsinks   Mar 18, 2002   Max Page  

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Tocools Crown Heatsink From All Angles
The Fan:
The larger fan is made by Delta and draws 0.48A so it should be okay on most motherboards current wise. To play it safe it is just as easy to hook up the fan via a Molex pass through cable and connect it up to the main power. The fans on both sets of heatsink are held in place by wire clips as you can see in the photo.
Heatsink Top:
With 19 fins machined from a solid block of aluminum the thermal properties of the aluminum should be very uniform. Each fin measures 1mm thick, and is spaced 2mm apart from one another. At first glance the Tocools Crown employs a pretty standard cooling method. The real trick happens where the fins make contact with the base of the heatsink. Rather then just meeting the base plate at 90 degrees, the base angles up at the center to form a peek.
Side A:
The side profile of the heatsink is quite plain except for the extra cutouts on the edges of each fin. The extra surface area can't hurt, and since the heatsink is largely cut from a solid block the outside faces are smooth. Shown is the clip which broke off during installation. The fan is held in place with wires and this works well. The mounting clip really ought to be redesigned and redone.
Side B:
The business side of the Crown looks good, and works well. Even though the heatsink is hampered by a less than ideal clip, the underlying heatsink is really well done, and works well for an extrusion. Note how the metal clips lock into the fins and hold the 25mm thick fan in place. Each of those side cut-outs is about 4mm in height.
Heatsink Base:
Like the Zalman heatsinks the base is very well finished (though not as razor sharp) and provides an excellent place to mount any processor to. I'm frankly getting a bit tired of commenting on poorly finished bases, so it was great to see that the Tocools engineers had gotten things right here. The base is undercut by 2mm to provide socket cam arm clearance.

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Table of Contents:

 1:  Tocools Crown Retail Heatsink Review
 2: — Close up look at the heatsink
 3:  New Heatsink Test Parameters
 4:  Thermal And Acoustic Results

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