Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler

Sidney · 16th April 2006, 05:29

A quiet serene desktop workstation or a performance pixel churning cooling mammoth? Two extremes of the PC cooling world I know, my point being, can a balance be maintained between them?
My current computer has a huge Thermalright XP-90 heatsink and 92mm fan cooling the CPU with an additional 3 80mm case fans. Which as you can imagine isn’t the quietest. But because I always use headphones on and can sleep through the noise when left on overnight I don’t see a need for change. But for some people sound is everything the slightest hum is an assault on their ears.

So for most people I believe they wish to maintain stability and have moderate to high end components while still keeping a reasonable level of noise. This is where my article comes in. In this review I am going to look over Arctic’s Alpine 64. I believe this to be cooling with enough performance to handle all CPUs of the current time while maintaining a reasonable amount of noise. I will be testing its cooling performance against the huge performance monster of Thermalright’s XP-90 and the stock AMD cooler.

Rutar · 16th April 2006, 14:03

another crappy review

The main selling point of the alpine is that it's dirt cheap.

16th April 2006, 05:29	#1
Sidney [M] Reviewer Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 16,730	Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 CPU Cooler A quiet serene desktop workstation or a performance pixel churning cooling mammoth? Two extremes of the PC cooling world I know, my point being, can a balance be maintained between them? My current computer has a huge Thermalright XP-90 heatsink and 92mm fan cooling the CPU with an additional 3 80mm case fans. Which as you can imagine isn’t the quietest. But because I always use headphones on and can sleep through the noise when left on overnight I don’t see a need for change. But for some people sound is everything the slightest hum is an assault on their ears. So for most people I believe they wish to maintain stability and have moderate to high end components while still keeping a reasonable level of noise. This is where my article comes in. In this review I am going to look over Arctic’s Alpine 64. I believe this to be cooling with enough performance to handle all CPUs of the current time while maintaining a reasonable amount of noise. I will be testing its cooling performance against the huge performance monster of Thermalright’s XP-90 and the stock AMD cooler. __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

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16th April 2006, 14:03	#2
Rutar Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,267	another crappy review The main selling point of the alpine is that it's dirt cheap.