Thermalright HR-02 Passive Processor Heatsink Review

All testing of the coolers will occur, one again, inside our NZXT Tempest Evo case. This is per Thermalright’s installation recommendations and to create airflow similar to what you would see at home. Given this is a passive cooler, testing it on an open bench really does not tell us anything since we would not be creating an airflow dynamic around it. Our system will have installed a GIGABYTE X58-Extreme motherboard, six gigabytes of Corsair DDR3 RAM, with the Intel Core i7 920. With four cores and triple channel memory populated expect to see lots of heat. The video card of choice is the NVIDIA 9500 GT thanks to its low heat output and silent fan.