AMD XP Aircooling - Heatsink Roundup Q3 2004

Cooling/CPU Cooling by jmke @ 2004-08-21

So here we are with yet again an AMD Socket A roundup. Last time in December 2003 we saw that the field was dominated by the Thermalright SP-97 heatsink which sports heat pipe technology. Nowadays a lot of manufactures have caught up and we have a wide variety of heatsinks available which are based upon the successful heat pipe tech. Let?s find out if they can beat our Golden Oldie

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Thermalright SP-97 and ALX-800

Provided by: Thermalright

Thermalright SP-97 :

Thermalright has continually improved the efficiency of their heatsinks, and the SP-97 doesn't disappoint. Using the same layout as the P4 version (SP-94) it sports 3 heat pipes which advantage increases as the heat output of the CPU rises.

Madshrimps (c)

Madshrimps (c)


For more details please read our previous writeup on this unit.


Thermalright ALX-800 :

For the more budget minded users, Thermalright created this Copper/Aluminium based heatsink:

Madshrimps (c)

Madshrimps (c)


More details about the ALX-800 here from our previous review.
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