All Heatsink Tests Done By Madshrimps In One Place

Cooling/HSFDB by jmke @ 2009-12-07

Over the past years we have tested a few hundred kilos worth of heatsinks; in order to give you quick access to the massive amount of data we have entered all the test results (more than 400) into a database, grouped by test setup. Enjoy!

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AMD S462 (2004-12) - Open Testbed

AMD S462 (2004-12) - Open Testbed

Madshrimps (c)


JMke's Test Setup
CPU Athlon XP-M “Barton” 2500+ @ 1900Mhz -1.86v (~90W)
Mainboard Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Memory 1 * 256Mb OCZ PC3700
Video ATI R9000 Passive Cooling


  • Arctic Silver kindly send us their “Lumière” thermal testing compound which has the same color and characteristics as Ceramique, but it only needs a burn in period of 30min (compared to several days with convential thermal paste)
  • The CPU stressed with K7 Burn, this application will raise temperature higher then any other stress program I know, 4-5°C difference with Prime95 or 3DMark2001SE loops.
  • Noise level of each fan was recorded with SmartSensor SL4001A, the sensor was placed ~35cm away from the fan. The lowest dBA reading in the test room was 33 dBA, if a fan noise reading is 33 dBA then it means that it is really, really silent :)


    Fans used

    Each heatsink was tested with the supplied fan (if applicable) and also with a selection of high and low output fans. Some fans were tested at 12v/7v setting, defined with High/Low in the performance charts. The Zalman was used with its own rheobus which puts the “Low” setting at 5v.

    Madshrimps (c)
    Vantec Tornado fans provided by Vantec Taiwan


    Performance Results

    Select the heatsink you want to compare and hit “select”. Click the name of the heatsink to be taken straight to the original review, with pictures, installation tips and more.


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    Comment from piotke @ 2009/01/28
    Nicely done, but once you selected one or 2 coolers, and clicked next to see the graph, there is apparently no way to return to the selection menu ? (besides refreshing the page).
    Comment from Massman @ 2009/01/28
    Your life's work?
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/28
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by piotke View Post
    Nicely done, but once you selected one or 2 coolers, and clicked next to see the graph, there is apparently no way to return to the selection menu ? (besides refreshing the page).
    good point, will look into it

    @Massman: trying to setup similar for fans & cases, than my work is complete
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
    return link added!
    Comment from Rutar @ 2009/01/29
    excellent work
    Comment from geoffrey @ 2009/01/29
    if you don't select anything, and choose select, then you get a nothing select error but no link back to the selection screen

    Flash btw?
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
    no flash involved, Php image generation; you can directly link to generated charts from Madshrimps.be domain. Today so far 916 charts were generated latest one:

    http://www.madshrimps.be/images/rend...26,363,366.png

    if you try to directly link from a site outside madshrimps domain you get this image:



    Quote:
    if you don't select anything, and choose select, then you get a nothing select error but no link back to the selection screen
    fixed, thanks for testing
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
    added links to the Heatsink names, they now link to the original review, with pictures, installation tips and more.
    Comment from geoffrey @ 2009/01/29
    you're brilliant
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/01/29
    coolest would be now if you mouse-over the name, you see a small thumbnail of the heatsink? would that be useful ?
    Comment from jmke @ 2009/02/01
    latest chart generated can now be found: http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=stats
    will need a better place for it though

     

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