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The Athlon XP lives on, and heatsink manufactures continue to improve their heatsink & fan products to offer better performance at interesting price points. Today we take a closer look at 3 Athlon XP coolers from Thermalright, Spire and Scythe. All heatsinks make use of heat pipes in their design as this technology allows for easy removal of heat from one point to another; The contestants today: Reference heatsinks Besides comparing each heatsink’s performance against the others, I also include 2 reference heatsinks which have proven popular in the past.  The Thermalright SP-97 is an all copper heat pipe equipped heavy heatsink which requires motherboard removal and uses 4 mounting holes around the socket for installation. The SP-97 comes with fan clips for 80 and 92mm fans which gives you the choice of fan and performance/noise ratio.  The Zalman CNPS7000Cu is very popular due to its excellent balance of performance and noise; for Socket A installation this heatsink requires motherboard removal as it also uses the 4 mounting holes around the socket. The heatsink comes with a mini rheobus which allows you to change the speed of the included 92mm fan; the rheobus alters the fan’s voltage between 11.9v and 5v. Test Setup and Test Methodology 
Fans used Each heatsink was tested with the supplied fan (if applicable) and also with a selection of high and low output fans. Some fans were tested at 12v/7v setting, defined with High/Low in the performance charts. The Zalman was used with its own rheobus which puts the “Low” setting at 5v.  Vantec Tornado fans provided by Vantec Taiwan With all the details explained it is time to meet our first contestant ->  More reviews in this category can be found below: |
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