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Battle of the Titans II: Swiftech MCX478-V vs Thermalright SP-94

Cooling/CPU Cooling by jmke @ 2003-11-18

Little over a year ago we put Swiftech?s greatest against Alpha?s best. The MCX4000 vs PAL8942 review is more then a year old. And it is time again to find out who?s the king of the Pentium 4 aircoolers.

Swiftech MCX478-V

Contestant n#2: Swiftech MCX478-V

Swiftech has gone back to the drawing boards to come up with a heatsink aimed at the power-users out there who like their PC's to be silent.
Their approach to the issue is to provide the best heat dissipation by spreading out the pins on the heatsink in a V-like manner, making it look like a metal flower

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CNC machined, C110 copper base, 3"W x 3.3"L x .500"H

374 Helicoid Pins made of High Thermal Conductivity Aluminium Alloy, press fitted in the base.

Heatsink base dimensions 3"x3.3"x1.66"

Heatsink top dimension 3 3/4" x 3 1/2"

Weight: 620g

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This design makes me think of:

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The MCX478-V works with 80 and 92mm fans and ships with brackets for both.

The Helicoid aluminium pins are the same once that are found on the MCX4000, this time they have been bend to provide more space between them and give air a better chance of disappating the heat.

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Optimized performance characteristics at the lowest possible audible noise levels.

Plug-and-play installation with Intel's stock retention mechanisms.

The Swiftech comes with Arctic Alumina which performs on par with Arctic Silver 3 while reducing the risk of shorting something due to the fact that Alumina contains no silver. The copper base has a very good finishing taking away the need to lap the heatsink to achieve best thermal conduction

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Let's get these heatsinks installed! ->

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