This is a warning to the comunity. Earlier this year, i had the misfortune to deal with coolerstar.com. I purchaced an aluminum HSF, a 99% copper HSF and a Peltier+HSF for overclocking my tbird, as well as some "SILVER thermal grease". Well, i installed the pelt, and temperatures skyrocketed. Had i attempted to go all the way to windows, i propably would have lost my CPU. Ok, so i take off the POS. and decide to test the different HSFs using powerresisters. The results indicated that THE STOCK FAN BEAT ALL OF THEM! And, in the process of testing them, i broke the fan on the stock fan, so i was stuck with the aluminum HSF, and my cpu ran hotter at 900mhz than it did at 1050 with the stock hsf.
Later on, i needed a HSF for an 800mhz tbird for a relative, and i decided that the copper hsf would propably do the trick, right? WRONG. After running for about 30 minutes, it would hang. This prooved a nightmare to trouble shoot, and it was weeks before it was working properly with a $~10 heatsink from a local store.
And thier "SILVER thermal grease"? Gee, it looks like the grey silicone crap to me. Infact it says that it is silicone liquid on the package.
The products mentioned above are:
CoolMax Solid Copper Cooler $29.99 (sale)
LY 999-P SOcket 370 / 462 $15.99 (sale)
Peltier Cooler w/ Dual Fan $36.95 (sale)
SILVER Thermal Compound $1.99 (sale)
Note that that is the sale that never ends. It has been there as long as i have been going to that site. (isnt that illegal? To jack up your "normal price" and then run a constant sale?)
I just wanted to let everyone around here know that they arnt the place to go for anything related to cooling. Well, actualy if you are planning on buying several hundred POS heatsinks, thier volume discounts arnt bad, but nothing there is overclocking-grade.
-Az
Later on, i needed a HSF for an 800mhz tbird for a relative, and i decided that the copper hsf would propably do the trick, right? WRONG. After running for about 30 minutes, it would hang. This prooved a nightmare to trouble shoot, and it was weeks before it was working properly with a $~10 heatsink from a local store.
And thier "SILVER thermal grease"? Gee, it looks like the grey silicone crap to me. Infact it says that it is silicone liquid on the package.
The products mentioned above are:
CoolMax Solid Copper Cooler $29.99 (sale)
LY 999-P SOcket 370 / 462 $15.99 (sale)
Peltier Cooler w/ Dual Fan $36.95 (sale)
SILVER Thermal Compound $1.99 (sale)
Note that that is the sale that never ends. It has been there as long as i have been going to that site. (isnt that illegal? To jack up your "normal price" and then run a constant sale?)
I just wanted to let everyone around here know that they arnt the place to go for anything related to cooling. Well, actualy if you are planning on buying several hundred POS heatsinks, thier volume discounts arnt bad, but nothing there is overclocking-grade.
-Az
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