Does this mini HSF look good?

Crosstrack16 · 05-11-2003, 08:06 PM

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krazy · 05-11-2003, 09:19 PM

interesting design. I am not the kind of guy that can tell you how it would perform by looking at it; I'll leave that up to the rest of the crew. The thing that I saw and didn't like was the mounting brackets. It has separate screw down clips which will make it nearly impossible to clamp down squarely on the CPU die. Aside from that, maybe, maybe not. It looks like it would take a lot of airflow to cool much. A lot of the air in the center of the holes is not touching hot aluminum to conduct away heat. A design with lots of small holes (or fins, duh) would be theoretically better. Generally, the more contact between air and metal the better.

Crosstrack16 · 05-11-2003, 09:44 PM

Do you think if the block was solid and the holes were drilled straight through, its may disperse more heat...

zoson · 05-11-2003, 10:01 PM

The core is an old heatsink, aptly name for it's uncanny ability to crush cpu cores. Don't bother getting it. You can find reviews and massive amounts of complaints about it online, google for it.

About it's cooling, it was actually pretty decent when it first came out. Nowdays I doubt it could handle the heatload of a hot AthlonXP.
-Zoson

05-11-2003, 08:06 PM	#1
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05-11-2003, 09:19 PM	#2
krazy Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Posts: 123	interesting design. I am not the kind of guy that can tell you how it would perform by looking at it; I'll leave that up to the rest of the crew. The thing that I saw and didn't like was the mounting brackets. It has separate screw down clips which will make it nearly impossible to clamp down squarely on the CPU die. Aside from that, maybe, maybe not. It looks like it would take a lot of airflow to cool much. A lot of the air in the center of the holes is not touching hot aluminum to conduct away heat. A design with lots of small holes (or fins, duh) would be theoretically better. Generally, the more contact between air and metal the better. __________________ Abit NF7-S ... xp1800+ ... Abit GF4ti4200 ... Maxtor 120gb SATA150 Currently gathering parts to water cool everything! (read about the project)

05-11-2003, 10:01 PM	#4
zoson Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: X Posts: 204	The core is an old heatsink, aptly name for it's uncanny ability to crush cpu cores. Don't bother getting it. You can find reviews and massive amounts of complaints about it online, google for it. About it's cooling, it was actually pretty decent when it first came out. Nowdays I doubt it could handle the heatload of a hot AthlonXP. -Zoson __________________ Core i7 930 @ 4254Hz 22x193 \| ASUS R3E 901 BIOS \| 12GB Mushkin Blackline 3x4GB @ 1547MHz 7-8-7-24-1N \| Lian Li PC-A10B 2x EVGA GTX275 SLI @ 720/1266/1566 \| 2x 80GB Intel X25-M G2 SSD Raid 0 \| 3x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint 7.2K Raid 5 \| Corsair 950TX H2O \| Enzotech Sapphire Rev.A \| EK-FB RE3 \| Swiftech - 2x MCW60/GTX275 Unisink, MCP655b, MCRes Micro.v2 \| 3x HWLabs SR1-120 あなたの神への弓 Time isn't wasted, when you're gettin' wasted.

05-11-2003, 09:44 PM	#3
Crosstrack16 Cooling Savant Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Spring Hill, FL Posts: 169	Do you think if the block was solid and the holes were drilled straight through, its may disperse more heat...

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