Compared to a 25mm fan this 15mm fan employed on the TI-V86L series heatsink we are looking at is much less noisy. It does produce some noise, which may be audible if your PSU operates very quietly.

To hear this heatsink, simply click on the pair of headphones .

Synthetic Temperature Test Results: *Ranked according to 100W small interface die test results.

FrostyTech Synthetic Temperature Test Platform Results
	Mfg.	Model	Ambient Temp.	27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block		27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block	Thermal pad	No. Fans	Fan Noise	Clip force
				50W	50W		100W	100W
1	Thermal Integration	TI-V77L	26.5	39.1	44.4		57.5	63.6	grey	1	med	med
2	Swiftech	MCXC370	21.4	38.3	43.4		53.5	65.7	none	1	med	med
3	OCZ	Gladiator	21.4	33.3	47.3		50.6	70.3	none	1	very loud	med
4	Thermal Integration	TI-V86-15L	24.9	48.2	46.0		70.8	71.9	none	1	med	med
5	Vantec	CCK-6027D	27.4	45.4	49.6		64.9	73.4	none	1	med	med
6	Swiftech	MCX370	22.3	42.0	46.1		60.3	75.6	none	1	med	hard
7	Akasa	Silver Mountain	26.6	46.2	51.5		65.0	76.1	none	1	loud	med
8	AVC	112AM1	24.8	46.6	52.9		70.1	79.6	none	1	low	stiff
9	Thermaltake	Volcano 6cu+	26.5	40.3	55.3		58.6	84.4	carbon	1	loud	med
10	Spire	5T060B1H3R	26.7	42.7	57.5		64.6	85.1	none	1	low	med
11	Thermalright	CB-6L	24.6	50.3	57.7		73.8	92.7	white pad	1	low	med
12	Fortis	A92	26.7	45.6	65.8		67.8	97.8	none	1	loud	stiff
				50W	50W		100W	100W

Initial test results show us two important things about the TI-V86L Series heatsink with its 15mm thick fan. One, it is not even remotely suitable for heatspreader covered processors at 100W heat loads, and two, it works very well on small die processors. This can be seen by the above results under the 100W test section. The TI-V86L Series is out of spec on the large interface die, and does very well on the smaller interface die.

To see the final results, lets look at the results for the rise above ambient temperature.