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Thermaltake Polo735 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
Thermaltake Polo735 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
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Abstract: The 732 gram heatsink is heavy, so care should be taken when installing it onto the processor; be that AMD Athlon64, AthlonXP or Intel Pentium 4.

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Thermaltake   Cooling / Heatsinks   Nov 07, 2005   Max Page  

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FrostyTech.com Mk.II Synthetic Thermal Heatsink Test Results
Results based on readings from a 38x38mm copper interface die with 125W heat load on the Mk.II Test Platform. Thermal Test values for each heatsink were calculated by determining the rise over ambient temperature at time of test. Information on Frostytech's test methodology is available here.
Socket 939/940/754 compatible CPU heatsinks
manufacturer: model no.: *fan speed: 125w thermal test (°c) noise level (dba)

Gigabyte G-Power Pro high 18.6 71.9
Coolermaster Hyper6 high 20.5 54.7
Thermaltake Venus 12 high 21.7 68.1
ASUS Starice high 22.8 67.4
Coolermaster Aquagate Mini high 23.2 59.2
Thermaltake Polo 735 high 23.4 68.0
Cooljag SFO-H high 23.6 60.6
Alpha PAL-8150 23.7 58.9
Zalman CNPS9500LED (clip parallel) high 23.8 50.3
AVC Z7U3301001 (stock 939) high 24.6 59.9
Gigabyte 3D Cooler-Ultra high 24.8 63.0
Scythe Shogun high 26.0 45.9
EKL V8 high 26.3 57.5
Gigabyte 3D Rocket-Pro high 26.9 56.7
Gigabyte 3D Cooler-Pro high 27.0 62.5
Gigabyte 3D-Rocket 28.9 50.7
Vantec Mach1 high 29.2 56.9
CoolJag SFO-D(18SC) 29.6 64.0
Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu high 30.3 45.2
Dynatron SK-V24 30.3 56.4
Zalman CNPS7000-Cu high 31.0 45.2
Coolermaster Hyper48 31.7 43.6
Scythe Kama SCKK1000 31.9 47.5
Scythe Samurai SCSM1000 high 32.1 51.6
Zalman CNPS7000B-CU high 32.3 44.9
Thermaltake Silentboost K8 32.3 49.7
Jetart JAX801 33.2 53.5
Dynatron A22 34.5 44.5
nPowertek NPH K8-1 34.6 52.2
Ajigo MF043-044 (stock 754) 35.0 45.4
Verax Quattro 1 36.9 30.9
Gigabyte NeonCooler 8-BL 37.7 42.0
Titan TTC-K8ATB/825/SC 38.7 63.1
Thermaltake Venus 12 low 39.4 42.6
Evercool K802-715 42.1 51.5
Thermaltake Polo 735 low 44.5 42.3
Evercool Magic Cooler 46.6 55.5
125w thermal test (°c) noise level (dba)
*heatsinks are ranked according to the 125w thermal test results column (rise over ambient temp.). low temperatures with low noise levels are considered best. for reference heatsinks with variable-speed fans, only the high speed (12v) fan test result is included in the comparison sheet; more detailed results reside in each specific heatsink review.

to illustrate just how similar the thermaltake polo735 and venus 12 heatsinks are, we've left in the complete results for the Venus 12 cooler in the above chart. The latter performs a few degrees better than the Polo735; most likely due to some slight fin and base dimensional differences. In any case, at the slowest fan speed setting, the Thermaltake Polo735 maintained a rise above ambient temperature result of 44.5°C - which is little poor. Clearly, this heatsink is not best suited to be a "low noise" AMD Ahtlon64 K8 heatsink.

With it's finger-chopping fan speed dialed all the way up to 5500RPM, the noisy Thermaltake Polo735 performs thermally very well, its rise above ambient temperature being just 23.4°C. Of course, at the same moment the heatsink is also making a 68 dBA racket.

Bottom line, the Thermaltake Polo735 offers up some pretty great noise-be-damned temperature results at its most aggressive fan speed setting. As a low noise heatsink, it falls short. Users looking to migrate between a K7 platform and a K8 or Pentium 4 based PC are best served by getting heatsinks designed for the latter two processors only. In this case, even though the Polo735 and Venus 12 are nearly identical, the subtle changes allow the Venus 12 to attain better results on a K8-based synthetic temperature test platform such as that used by FrostyTech.

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 1:  Thermaltake Polo735 Athlon64 Heatsink Review
 2:  360° View - Thermaltake Polo735 Heatsink
 3:  Surface Roughness and Acoustic Comparisons
 4: — Final Heatsink Temperature Comparisons

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