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Cooling Performance
Ok, so how a heat sink is made and how easy it is to put in is just the details, the meat of the meal is in how the thing works, so lets find out how well this thing cools off your Tbird buddy.
The Test
Run the system after a normal boot for a while, and get idle temps. Then see how well it keeps the numbers down by kicking in Prime95 and burning those CPU cycles. The probe on the motherboard reports temps in motherboard monitor.
The Testbed
Blizzard 280 Case
Asus A7V Motherboard v1.004c
Tbird 800 @ 1GHz 1.85v
Arctic Silver 1
The Candidates
Vantec 6035D Copper/Aluminum heatsink
Vantec 62540D Aluminum heatsink | Our Review
Thermosonic Thermoengine Aluminum heatsink | Our Review
So now that all the parties are in, and the gauntlet has been thrown down, lets go see what these bad boys do to each other.
The first sink I threw into the mix was the previous Vantec I tested, the 62450D. I expected this guy to get the lowest numbers of the 3. Then came the new guy, the Vantec 6035D, followed up by the old standby - the Thermoengine. Here's how the numbers looked for it:
| Idle |
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Test #1 |
Test #2 |
Test #3 |
| Vantec Aluminum |
42 C |
30 C |
24.9 C |
| Vantec Copper |
41 C |
30 C |
24.7 C |
| Thermoengine |
41 C |
31 C |
25.0 C |
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| Load |
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Test #1 |
Test #2 |
Test #3 |
| Vantec Aluminum |
46 C |
31 C |
24.9 C |
| Vantec Copper |
44 C |
30 C |
24.8 C |
| Thermoengine |
44 C |
32 C |
25.0 C |
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So, the final results? The new Vantec cooler went nose to nose with the Thermoengine and stood its ground. Pretty impressive stuff in general, considering the fact the Thermoengine has been the top contender for a long time. One thing I'll throw in as a bonus half point here for the Vantec, even though I installed it 6 or 8 times, it never did anything to hurt my core, unlike the Thermoengine, where during one of my several rounds of testing, I chipped my core with it. I wasn't happy about that.
Cooling: 4.5/5
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