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ActiveCool AC4G review

Cooling/Water Cooling by DUR0N @ 2002-12-14

Howdy people, this is my first review for [M]adshrimps, and it?s going to be a damn fine one I?m telling you!
Nowadays most people want a silent heatsink/fan and good temperatures. You can have it quiet, but you will lose the nice temps. You can mix em up, and have a nice combo or you can just turn mad and buy the loudest and fastest fans around. Today no loud crap, we?ll do it the silent and performing way. Is it possible? Well, you?ll find out in a minute. I?m going to guide you trough the ActiveCool AC4G CPU cooler. Expect heatsinks, peltier elements, getto setups and a totaly crazy reviewer.

Conclusion

Conclusion:

Well, this is a nice piece of tech for the masses. You can do some overclocking with it and the price is acceptable ( €75). You won´t get the best quality heatsink for your money because it´s just aluminium.

I think that there are some things that could be changed to improve the performance of this heatsink:
- Using copper instead of aluminium would result in a drop in temps under load.
- Add a larger fan then the installed 60mm one, because it is just too small to make enough CFM justify all the noise.

I heard that Thermaltake was going to make it´s own version of it, with a volcano heatsink of some kind. Can´t wait to see what this will do to the overall performance

PRO
+ Cheap for such high tech toy.
+ Temps are remarkable better.
+ Easy installation.

CON
- Could be more efficient.
- Not the finishing touch.
- Not for AMD atm.
- When on maximum speed it´s very loud

Voila, that´s it. I hope you enjoyed reading it as I did writing it. Special thanks to the guys at ColorCase, who gave all the stuff. Also thanks to TeuS for whiping many of the spelling errors out of the review.

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