- Back to homepage
- Related articles
  Related articles
  - Corsair Air Series Fans Review

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!

Intel S775 (2006~2009) - Antec Sonata 2

Intel S775 (2006~2009) - Antec Sonata 2

We build a S775 system with parts from Alternate.de, the CPU is one hot running Pentium 4 524, 3.06Ghz. It is mounted on a Swiss-army knife equivalent of motherboards: an Asrock 775Dual-VSTA.

Madshrimps (c)

The mounting system on S775 is quite straight forward and well thought out, 4 holes around the socket serve as mounting points for the push pins on the standard Intel cooler. Installation is a snap, and removal is very easy too.

Madshrimps (c)

With the stock cooling and at stock voltage the 3Ghz P4 was running stable at 3.68Ghz, quite a nice improvement from default speeds.

A Watt Meter recorded peak power consumption under heavy CPU load at 138W, which is less than our previous Athlon 64 setup which consumed up to 165W. The Asrock bios lacks CPU voltage manipulation, so at default voltage is seems this Prescott setup is more power friendly then the over-volted AMD system.

We’re using a compact Antec Sonata II mid tower case, swapped out the PSU for a passive model from FSP rated at 400W, the outside of the PSU case never went past 40°C during our stress tests,

Intel S775 Setup
CPU	Pentium 4 524 @ 3628Mhz - 1.36v vcore
Mainboard	Asrock 775Dual-VSTA
Memory	1 * 512Mb Mushkin PC3200 LVLII V2
Other	Antec Sonata II with AcoustiFan DustPROOF 120mm @ 5v in the rear as outtake (mounted with soft-mounts) ATI R9000 Passive Cooling FSP ZEN 400W Passive Cooled PSU Seagate 7200.8 200Gb HDD in Scythe Quiet Drive

in-take temperature was measured at 22°C for all tests, but temp fluctuations, different mounting and user error can account up to 1-3°C of inaccuracy in the obtained results. Please keep this in mind when looking at the results. Each heatsink was tested repeatedly; if we got questionable results the test was restarted.

Madshrimps (c)

example: dBA meter is placed right at the edge of the case - with side panel removed

Noise level of each HSF combo was recorded with SmartSensor SL4001A and Velleman DVM1326, the sensor was placed ~5cm away from the side of the case with panel removed. The lowest dBA reading in the test room was 36dBA! with system running without HSF fan.

System was stressed by running K7 CPU Burn for 30min (after Thermal Compound's burn-in); this application pushes the temperature higher than any other application or game we've yet encountered. Speedfan was used to log maximum obtained temperatures.

Arctic Silver kindly send us their “Lumière” thermal testing compound which has the same colour as Ceramique, but only a break in time of 30min!

Arctic Silver's ArctiClean was used to clean off thermal paste of the CPU and heatsink between tests

Fans used for comparison

Delta FFB1212VHE 120x38mm Very High Speed provided by Sidewinder Computers

151CFM – 3200RPM – 12V fan

To eliminate as much variables in the tests we test each heatsink with a "reference" fan if it can be mounted.

GlobalWin NCB 120x120x25mm fan with 41.7CFM rating.

Delta NFB0912L 92x92x25mm fan with 42CFM rating.

Delta FFB1212VHE 120x120x38mm with 151CFM rating.

Four Intel stock heatsinks were also included in the tests:

Intel Reference Alu (included with older Pentium 4 S775 and Intel E2xxx)

Intel Reference Alu/Cu (included with Core 2 Duo models)

Intel Reference Alu/Cu Big (included with Core 2 Quad models)

Intel Reference Extreme (included with Core 2 Quad Extreme Models)

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.

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

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

All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.