All those trying to decide between hs/fans and considering Taisol, read this!

[glenn1]

Just wanted to pass along my experience with my Taisol 742. I've been running it for a while, and was really happy with it... it kept my Duron 600@950 nice and cool, and is fairly quiet... not much louder than my L1A Panaflo fans.

Just the other day, i got myself a brand shiny new T-bird... 1200/200 week 11 AXIA.. i thought long and hard about putting a different hs/fan unit on there, but decided the Taisol was doing a good job, and stuck with it. So, off goes the Taisol, out goes the Duron, slapped some Arctic Silver on the T-bird and installed it, and back on goes the Taisol, all without incident.

Needless to say, i'm a bit anxious to give the bird a go, so i boot it up at default, no problems, i'm on the desktop. Check my email and my PMs, write an email... elapsed time, about 5 minutes. Restart, and into the BIOS to start overclocking. Whoooops, we have a problem... core temps are in the 80s celcius, and rising fast... and i damn near soil my pants.... the computer gets turned off as quickly as i can reach the power switch.

Anyway, i figured out my problem quickly enough.. i was so anxious to start playing with my bird, that i forgot to plug in the fan on the Taisol <smacks himself in the forehead>. But that gives you an idea of just how good of a heatsink the Taisol really is. With no fan (well, no fan plugged in anyway), my T-bird 1200 was running for a good 5 minutes at least, with no ill effects to the CPU (now, if you're talking about me, that's a different story). Considering the lifespan of a T-bird without cooling is supposed to be less than 10 seconds, doing 5 minutes of passive cooling isn't too shabby, IMHO.

Needless to say, my birdie is doing fine (great chip in fact, maxed out my K7T Turbo at 1425 @ 1.70V) and Taisol has made a customer for life. Sorry about what seems like a plug, but i wanted to throw a real-life story out there for those trying to decide between various heatsink/fan combos. Go with the Taisol, you won't regret it.

 

[TuffGuy]

hehehe... you're a dumbarse. you lucked out. just the other day i read about a guy that forgot to take the plastic off his thermal tape. needless to say, his tbird fried in seconds.

and people b!tch and complain that intel has a thermal protector on their chips...

 

[glenn1]

<< hehehe... you're a dumbarse. >>



No argument there That's what i get for taking MBM off my startup list, else i would have been alerted to the temps going up a lot sooner....



<< and people b!tch and complain that intel has a thermal protector on their chips... >>



True enough, but funny thing is, even if i had burned up that T-bird, i could have gone out and bought a replacement, and my total cost of out pocket for both wouldn't have been much more than if i had gotten a single P4

 

[TuffGuy]

<< True enough, but funny thing is, even if i had burned up that T-bird, i could have gone out and bought a replacement, and my total cost of out pocket for both wouldn't have been much more than if i had gotten a single P4 >>


not entirely accurate. the p4 is not that expensive, it's just the mobe/ram that make is seem so. but the p4 would not have burned out. and that's the point of it. no hassles.

 

[Def]

I'm pretty sure you could get two 1.2-1.33Ghz($170-190) Athlons and still be below the cost of a P4 1.7Ghz($360).

Hopefully the Athlon4(Palomino) will shut off whenever core temps rise too high. I know that's saved my P3 from my ignorance before.

 

[glenn1]

<< not entirely accurate. the p4 is not that expensive, it's just the mobe/ram that make is seem so. >>



Not going to argue the point, it was intended mostly as a mild jibe at best. I agree, AMD would be well advised to add such a feature to its products. My intended point was that Taisol makes some awesome products, not to choose sides in the AMD vs. Intel war. No offense intended by my comments to those using Intel stuff, and i hope none was taken.

 

[AMDPwred]

Thanks for the review glen. I myself, am in the market for a great HSF for my Duron750 (going for 1ghz in an OC). I think I'll be picking up a Taisol 742. About how much do they run and where did you get yours?

 

[Dundain]

CompuWiz sells them at his site Here and you can also pick one up at Plycon Here. They seem to run about $35-36 with the stock fan. (This is for the copper bottemed one) Definetly the heatsink Im gonna pickup

 

[J3anyus]

Taisol is great. I got my CGK760092 yesterday and put it on, and it's brought my core temps down about 3 degrees C from where they were with my chrome orb. I'm probably gonna throw a stronger fan onto it soon, and that'll bring my temps down even more. The only problem I had with the heatsink was mounting it, I was really worried. I jabbed a screwdriver into my motherboard 2 or 3 times, and then I almost tore the stays off of my socket. But, luckily, it all came out fine, and now I'm running with a much better temp than I was before, and I can upgrade it even more. Just play with the clip for awhile before you put this heatsink on, get used to how the clip works.

 

[TuffGuy]

<-- has an 80mm, 2900rpm, 41cfm fan on his taisol cgk760092.

 

[wti]

Inflow Direct has them both the CGK742092 at $20.95 and CGK760092 at $34.95.

 

[TruculentTucan]

put a better fan on it and the results improve dramatically.