Nexus PHT-3600 SkiveTek® & Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Heat Sinks Review Author: Matt Date Posted: September 24th, 2003 Nexus PHT-3600 SkiveTek® SLRating: Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu SLRating: Bottom Line: What do you look for in a Heat Sink, is it power, cost, noise or something else? SLCentral did a quick and dirty comparison of the Nexus PHT-3600 SkiveTek® & Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Heat Sinks, find out what we found in our official review.... Article Navigation Introduction Nexus PHT-3600 SkiveTek® Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Testing Conclusions Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 >> Discuss This Article

Nexus PHT-3600 SkiveTek®

Package Contents:

* Nexus PHT-3600 heat sink with attached fan, mounting clips
* Nexus NRC-1000 noise reduction cable

Heat sink specifications:
* Full aluminum heat sink
* SkiveTek®technology
* Weight: 385 gram with fan
* No tools required for installation
* Pre-applied premium thermal interface material

Fan specifications:
* Dimensions: 70x70x25 mm
* Rotation speed (without NRC-1000): 2400 RPM (+/-10%)
* Rotation speed (with NRC-1000): 1930 RMP (+/-10%)
* Noise Level (without NRC-1000): 19 dB(A)
* Noise Level (with NRC-1000): even less! (this is their official measurement, I don't have a device to measure dB unfortunately)
* Voltage (without NRC-1000): 12VDC
* Voltage (with NRC-1000): 10VDC

If you look closely you can see that the fins are bent up from the skiving, making the heat sink one continuous block of aluminum, without the need for welding.

Here is a blurb from Nexus on what skiving actually is:
SkiveTek® is one of the worlds most advanced technologies. It is a new concept and permits the production of heat sinks with a precise and super fine detail previously considered impossible. SkiveTek® represents a process of shaping materials to produce lightweight, high fin density thermal solutions. Base plate and fins are constructed out of one piece of 99.5% pure aluminum by cutting the material in thin layers, bending the fins in place. No bonding, welding, soldering or adhesive is involved; the joint between fin and base is continuous aluminum.

Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu

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