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Articles: Coolers
Roundup: Seven High-Performance Coolers for AMD and Intel Processors (page 4)Category: Coolers by Doors4ever [ 04/26/2006 | 09:44 PM ] Real-time Pricing and Availability: Cooler Master Hyper 6+ CPU Heatsink & Fan Products
Two heat pipes take heat off the copper base: The base is superbly polished: The cooler comes with an LGA755 fastener already attached so you only have to screw it to the back-plate, but you also get everything necessary to use the cooler with an AMD K8 processor (another back-plate and fastener). The Spire VertiCool II kept our Intel Pentium 4 521 processor running until a FSB frequency of 280MHz. The resulting CPU frequency was 3.93MHz. The CPU temperature was fluctuating from 67.5 to 70°C which is a very good result; the fan speed was about 2200rpm. I must confess I had troubles trying to switch to another platform. It should have been easy as you are only supposed to replace the fastener by undoing one small screw.
I removed the LGA775 fastener all right, but had a hard time trying to install the other one. The screw-hole is right in the middle, making you reach for it with your screwdriver from a side, and the screw would go in at a wrong angle and get stuck. I think it would be easier for the user to deal with two screws.
As soon as I overcame that difficulty, there arose another one:
As you see, the fan is right above the screw head and you have to remove the fan to tighten the screw. So, I eventually installed the Spire VertiCool II on an AMD processor, but that was a real trouble indeed. The Spire VertiCool II did well on our AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+, too. It allowed me to overclock the CPU to 2.7GHz at 1.4V voltage. The CPU temperature was fluctuating within a range of 61-63°C. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: Coolers Thursday, June 26, 20085:20 pm Coolink Unveils Thermal Compound with Ceramic Nano-Particles. Thermal Grease with Ceramic Nano Particles Approaches the Market Friday, June 6, 200811:10 am IBM Touts New Liquid-Cooling Technique. IBM to Use Liquid to Cool 3D Chips Tuesday, March 11, 20084:05 pm OCZ Technology Launches Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler. Vendetta Grew Up Wednesday, August 15, 20072:13 pm New Chip-Cooling Technology Promises a Revolution. Ionic Winds for Locally Enhanced Cooling Thursday, May 10, 20073:35 pm OCZ Vindicator: Scythe Ninja Clone or New Proprietary Design? OCZ and Scythe Officials Argue All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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