Speeze Coppersnake:

Speeze has an extensive line-up of end user friendly heatsinks, their Coppersnake is a stock cooler replacement aimed at the mainstream market.

Specifications:

This heatsink can be installed on:



* 70mm fan support
* 70mm fan included
* 500gr


Construction:



The solid copper base is very smooth, a series of thin fins are soldered into this base. The heatsink’s compact design promises easy installation

Installation:

2 metal spring clips secure the heatsink in its place, plug and play.

Problems and issues:

When I first started the performance tests the system shut down after a short period of time, removing the heatsink revealed the problem. The base was not making sufficient contact with the CPU core, this problem can be avoided by making sure you don’t have a retention bracket with those 4 plastic mounting plugs. We encountered a similar issue with CoolJag's 66IC heatsink here.

The 70mm fan is noisier at full speed then the Intel’s fan.

Performance:



The Coppersnake delivers average performance numbers at High fan speed, but is unable to keep the temperature within acceptable limits when the fan speed is halved.