Evercool CUW8-715:

This Evercool heatsink is also aimed at the mainstream market like the Coolermaster Vortex.

Specifications:

This heatsink can be installed on:



* Copper base with fins soldered on
* 70mm fan support
* 70mm fan included
* 345gr without fan


Construction:



Overall good finishing on this compact heatsink, although machine lapping marks can be seen on the base. The small fins are soldered into the base and are aligned to put out at each side of the heatsink.

Installation:



Plug and play installation and makes good use of the Intel retention bracket.

Problems and issues:

The small 70mm is noisy when running at full speed, considerably louder then the stock Intel fan, after hooking it up to a rheobus and halving its rotation speed the noise level drops enough to make it silent, but…


Performance:



The performance is not good, swapping out your Intel stock cooler for the Evercool CUW8-715 will give you a louder, but not necessarily much cooler, PC. Lowering the speed of the 70mm caused the temperature to rise past 70°C and the system powered itself off.

I received word from Evercool that they have a new mainstream P4 HSF cooler ready for testing and I will include this updated version in the 2nd part of this roundup.