FOP32-1 vs. Taisol CGK742092 Forged HSF vs. Alpha PAL6035

[SerraYX]

If anyone owns and uses either or all of these heatsinks, can you give a gauge on the performance and noise of each, plus how easy/hard it was to apply to your Thunderbird/Duron? All are with $5 of each other from Inflow Direct, so I want to find the best performer.

Thanks!

 

[LXi]

If you're going to put a 7000rpm fan on it, Taisol will probably perform the best, if you care about noise, then the Taisol with the stock fan will do quite well.

Btw, can anyone explain what "forged" means?

 

[SerraYX]

I plan to overclock a Thunderbird 800 to 7.5 * 133, it's guaranteed, but I need good cooling in case I can go higher.

 

[SerraYX]

I plan to overclock a Thunderbird 800 to 7.5 * 133, it's guaranteed, but I need good cooling in case I can go higher.

 

[hydrobum]

I seemed to have gotten the FOP32++ by luck...or perhaps not.
It's with the delta 7000rpm fan. Nice and cool, but I think louder than my 4 case fans put together.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

I dont' know hte detailed aspects of "forged", but i do know that most cheaper heatsinks are extruded, ie, heated then pulled into its current shape. They tend to have less aluminum "density" per heatsink area.

Forged heatsinks, like Alpha's and Taisols, I believe are heated then formed from a single block, and not extruded, but rather compacted, resulting in higher density of aluminum/cooper or whatever compound.

I may be wrong, but i believe that the major difference is the density of metal in hte heatsink


Mike

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Taisol has a newer heatsink coming out the 762. It performs good supposedly

 

[blackhawk]

I replaced the 60mm ystech with an 80mm sunon case fan on my fop 32 heatsink by just bending the clips out, voila!! More cfm, less noise=cooler & quieter.
As well, more air blows down and out on the board cooling the cs.

I came across it at overclockers website.

 

[Sundog]

Taisol 742 works great and is quiet. I like it!

 

[dc]

the taisol cgk742092 is very nice.

 

[LXi]

dc:

Do you know if the Taisol fits Socket370s?

 

[dc]

not sure, but when i installed one last week, i didn't see anything that would prevent it from being used with socket370 cpus. lets get more input on this.

taisol cgk742092 work with socket370? anyone?

 

[LXi]

I asked a few times, and the answers were quite ambiguous so I dont know for sure. It seems to me that most Taisol owners are AMD based.

 

[byungkuk]

i know there's a thermal pad on the heatsink(taisol)..but i still need grease like artic silver right???

 

[BuckMaster]

I love my FOP-32. Running a Duron 600@1020MHz!

 

[LXi]

Grease is always recommended over the pad, thermal pads are practically useless.

 

[SuperKen!]

<< Grease is always recommended over the pad, thermal pads are practically useless. >>



Not in this case. The stock taisols come with a phase change material which is VERY effiient. I took it off and put some plane ole Thermal Material on it, and my temps went up 2-3C. It was not until I removed the Thermal Material and put Artic Silver II on it, my CPU dropped 2-3C from the original material.

To make it easy. Stick with the stock taisol thermal material, unless you use plan to use Arctic Silver.

 

[LXi]

Yea I meant to say that ArcticSilver is recommended over the pads, its the only thermal compound to get for overclockers.

 

[Howard]

What about ASII?

 

[mikef208]

I will have to give a vote for the taisol. I use it on my duron and it is great, it dropped the temp around 5 degrees from my coolermaster.

 

[Losty]

i had the taisol cek734? forgot...but it was the bigger extruded taisol with the stock fan...and i decided to get the forged taisol cgk ... didn't make much of a difference...but i know the thermal pads on the taisol are nice...but you have to make sure and melt them @56C?

the cgk742 is nice....but needs to be lapped a little..haven't done it yet..running 950@1100

anyone try the PEP66t?

 

[chasm22]

I have a Taisol 742 with the delta 30cfm fan. I'm happy with the cooling and the noise level which is moderate and certainly not anywhere near the level of being a distraction. Installation was not bad at all.