Best yet? SLK-900

[Guest]

yeah! those rule. big cooling, bolts to M/B. what else could you possibly want?

 

[lhgpoobaa]

Fins that arnt welded but skived.
oh and how about one that fits a 120mm fan



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[error_911]

that would be the day... thing doesn't even fit 92mm fans... mind you, its not that hard to mod it to fit a 120mm fan... also works well with a window mounted fan cooling heatsink directly... tried it with my bare Vantec Aeroflow heatsink and my 120mm 104cfm window-mounted fan, and I got low-30s temps on a non-OCed Athlon 1600

Woohoo! Broke the 30-celcius barrier with through the loud and innefficient world of air-cooling! Also, never - NEVER - play with gum in one hand and hair in the other... just trust me.

 

[Guest]

Good points. It isn't perfect. From what I can find though it looks to be about the highest performance off the shelf air cooling solution at the moment.

error_911, you already have one of these? I wasn't even aware they existed until a couple of days ago.

 

[error_911]

oh no dude, u miss-understood me i think - i said that i managed to hit low-30s with my Vantec Aeroflow with no HSF on it, just my window-mount 120mm fan... and the bottom "signature" on that post (i know, i have a different one now) was just 'caus i hit 28 degrees Celcius with all my all my fans on low, heh (2 x Vantec Tornado 80mm, 1 120mm window-mouted 104cfm no-name, and my Vantec Aeroflow heatsink). Mind-you, I was looking at the specs and design of the SLK900 and I dunno, compared to the SLK800, unless they price it EXTREMELY close, I don't think it's gonna catch except for the big (and not-always-thinking) spenders. Besides, the new Swiftech MCX number whatever is supposed to be really good (the one thats available with a pelletier element in it), so there's another contender, and for the price (its cheaper than an SLK800) I don't think Thermalright has much of a chance... mind you, I find that any of their top-of-the-line heatsink are overpriced anyways

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[Guest]

I don't know...the swiftech w/ peltier is listed at $91.50 and that is before you buy the necessary dedicated 12V supply. Thanks for pointing that out though, I hadn't seen those. It does look to be superior cooling compared to the slk-900 based on the numbers on the swiftech site though. I guess they can eek a little more cooling out of that setup since the hot side of the peltier element can presumably safely stay at a higher temp than a processor can.

 

[svol]

Well you don't want to get the peltier hot side above 100 C otherwise the solder in it may melt.

Anyway I have said this a douzen times: peltiercooling with HSFs on a CPU is just a waist of money.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on 😱