AMD Athlon 64 heatsink roundup summer 2005

Cooling/CPU Cooling by piotke @ 2005-09-03

The new school year is about to begin, and every student will feel the urge to buy a lot of things, because "I need it for schoolwork".
How about using this excuse to buy new CPU cooling ? This article should give you a little help in the right direction.

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Testing

Testing

Fan speed and noise level

First details noise level of the fans in dBA:

Madshrimps (c)


Madshrimps (c)


This chart shows the combined temperatures and noise levels:

Madshrimps (c)


Asetek has delivered some very great products as you can see. But the very big Coolermaster is also performing very well. Too bad that I didn't have a more powerful 100 mm fan for more comparisons. Scythe, Speeze and the boxed cooling are filling up the gap between the top and the lowest performers.

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