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28th June 2007, 00:15 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Swiftech Apogee GT CPU Water Block Trends in waterblock design don't change often. Until recently, it was thought that jet-impingement was the best way to go for achieving the lowest temperature when cooling a processor. Then came along quad-core CPUs, and it became evident that we must look at other ways of cooling these beasts – their core surface is very large, so waterblock designers were forced to return to old-school, large surface area waterblocks. The Apogee GT is one of the first blocks that attempts to offer jet-impingement performance from a block relying on a simple array of copper pins – can it succeed? http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Swiftech/Apogee_GT
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28th June 2007, 15:09 | #2 |
[M] Reviewer Join Date: Sep 2005
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| *sigh* The real performance advantage of the Apogee GT(X)'es are with quad core processors. They explain so themselves on the first page, give it a nice theory... and then go ahead and test it on an opteron... I can tell you though that the performance of the apogee - when applied to a quad core - is indeed superior to the NexXxos XP from Alphacool (the original, not the highflow). |
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