CPU Heatsink Roundup May 2006

Cooling/CPU Cooling by jmke @ 2006-05-01

Eight new heatsinks are compared to 21 other air cooling solutions from different manufactures. We have some promising entries from Spire, Aerocool, Scythe, Thermaltake and Tuniq for you today!

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Performance at 2420Mhz and 1.7v vcore

Performance at 2420Mhz – 1.7 vcore

This older generation S754 can take quite a bit of vcore, at 1.7v it’s putting out quite a bit of heat, more than the latest Athlon FX-60, in a closed case with only a single 120mm output fan at 5v (no other fans in the system!) temperatures will rise quickly, any heatsink not capable of keeping the CPU temperature below 75°C will guarantee a system crash.

Those heatsinks which get into this chart and keep noise level below 40dBA are to be recommended for those seeking to build a silent system. Do remember that CPU cooling is but a piece of the silent computing puzzle, if you have a loud Power Supply, leaf-blower cooler on your graphics card and 4 Western Digital Raptors 10.000rpm drives spinning away, you might find that swapping out your CPU cooling is not giving you the desired drop in overall noise generation.

Enough talk, here are the numbers:

Madshrimps (c)

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