Thermalright SP-94 Copper Heatpipe Heatsink

jmke · 5th October 2003, 16:10

Liquid3D and I take an extensive look at Thermalright latest and possibly greatest P4 heatsink!

Quote:

Thermalright has certainly kept their eye on the ball lately, and they´ve scored yet again with their latest offering, the SP-94. This marks Thermalright´s ingress into heat-pipe technology, and they've made a distinguished entrance. The SP94 is an all copper thin-fin cooler, the embodiment of which centres around their SLK series. From what your about to see, Thermalright has truly raised heat-sink manufacture, to an art form.
We compare it to the SLK-947U and SLK-900U in this article.

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=107

RichBa5tard · 5th October 2003, 16:20

Wow, great stuff!

It's very impressive that it beats the SLK900 by approx 2 degrees, but the SLK900U has the advantage of being both AMD & Intel cooler.

Is the SP94 being sold in belgium yet?

jmke · 5th October 2003, 16:27

Haven't seen it in Belgium yet, but the price will approx. be around this one I think
http://www.prijswatch.be/prod.php?pg=toon&pid=5691

I will put the SP-94 further to test the coming days by upping the vcore and see how much I can overclock my poor little 2.4

7th October 2003, 11:39

are the temps in the review socket or diode temps???

jmke · 7th October 2003, 11:43

the P4 has an onboard temp diode which we used for the measurements, it portrays the exact cpu temperature more correctly.

9th October 2003, 19:53

ooops! ... why does the heatsink have such a rough surface?

Look at that surface!

uke:
You can clearly see the machine marks in the scanner image, yet
the reviewer has praise for how "smooth" it is. ... huh?! :wtf:

Hasn't the reveiwer seen a really smooth contact surface? :wtf:

jmke · 9th October 2003, 19:58

the scanner image surpasses that of most digicams, and even if I would scan a "smooth" / "lapped" heatsink, you will see the same marks
at 1600DPI things become pretty big , and the smallest groove can be seen as if it were huge

here are the L1 bridges of an AXP @ 1600DPI
:grin:

11th October 2003, 09:38

this review would be perfect if was set against the Swiftech MCX462-V, i mean dont we all wanna know who's the better one atm? :]

jmke · 11th October 2003, 11:17

it would be impossible to compare it to the Swiftech MCX462-V... as it is a Socket A heatsink

the Intel version will be released very soon.

11th October 2003, 15:41

woops minor detail i hadn't noticed :] looking forward to the review tho ;]

5th October 2003, 16:20	#2
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,345	Wow, great stuff! It's very impressive that it beats the SLK900 by approx 2 degrees, but the SLK900U has the advantage of being both AMD & Intel cooler. Is the SP94 being sold in belgium yet? __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

5th October 2003, 16:27	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,498	Haven't seen it in Belgium yet, but the price will approx. be around this one I think http://www.prijswatch.be/prod.php?pg=toon&pid=5691 I will put the SP-94 further to test the coming days by upping the vcore and see how much I can overclock my poor little 2.4 __________________

7th October 2003, 11:43	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,498	the P4 has an onboard temp diode which we used for the measurements, it portrays the exact cpu temperature more correctly. __________________

9th October 2003, 19:58	#7
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,498	the scanner image surpasses that of most digicams, and even if I would scan a "smooth" / "lapped" heatsink, you will see the same marks at 1600DPI things become pretty big , and the smallest groove can be seen as if it were huge here are the L1 bridges of an AXP @ 1600DPI :grin: __________________

11th October 2003, 09:38	#8
Hyd Posts: n/a	swiftech? this review would be perfect if was set against the Swiftech MCX462-V, i mean dont we all wanna know who's the better one atm? :]

7th October 2003, 11:39	#4
Unregistered Posts: n/a	are the temps in the review socket or diode temps???

9th October 2003, 19:53	#6
Unregistered Posts: n/a	ooops! ... why does the heatsink have such a rough surface? Look at that surface! uke: You can clearly see the machine marks in the scanner image, yet the reviewer has praise for how "smooth" it is. ... huh?! :wtf: Hasn't the reveiwer seen a really smooth contact surface? :wtf:

11th October 2003, 11:17	#9
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 82,498	it would be impossible to compare it to the Swiftech MCX462-V... as it is a Socket A heatsink the Intel version will be released very soon. __________________

11th October 2003, 15:41	#10
Unregistered Posts: n/a	woops minor detail i hadn't noticed :] looking forward to the review tho ;]

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