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*Hot* CoolerMaster Eclipse $19.99 AR (+shipping)

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RideFree

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CoolerMaster Eclipse at SVC
Rebate = $15.00

This is for the RR-CCB-WLU1-GP Eclipse which is identical to the one posted twice at ClubIT for $29.99 + ship.

The reviews on this place it at the top of the heap for Air - even rivaling some very good water systems.
There is a review posted on A/T (I think) and several others around the www.
All seem to share this quote from ClubOC ...
Looking around the internet, and from personal experience with a custom Danger Den water system that I had on my old s754 A64 3200+ Clawhammer, this air cooler seems to match, and even exceed some high end water cooling systems.
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I should have mentioned that there are several innovations that work to make this a top-notch cooler.
It appears that the way it is mounted in a system with a vertical M/B keeps all of the heatpipes flowing upward. This is how heatpipes work, folks.
They do not work as well if gravity does not assist the phase-change liquid to flow back to the base and extract the heat by changing into a vapor and rising to the top where it (heat) is extracted by the cooling fan(s) and fins. There may be some workaround with respect to the gravity part by the use of exotic phase-change materials.

1. Compatible with AMD socket AM2 ,Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme
2. Comprehensive Cooling Solution cools CPU and its surrounding components.
3. Special turbine fan design for steady and massive airflow but low noise
4. Intelligent Fan Speed Controller (PWM / Silent / Performance Modes)

Bang away folks. Break it down

Edited: One test was on a Pentium 940D (is there anything hotter?)...results?
Clocked 4.4GHz @ 1.42v 23°C at idle, 31°C at full load!
 
Thought I would throw what I found on the web and my experience with watercooling. I can say right now that watercooling will perform way better. By looking at this link here it doesnt even outperform other high end air coolers. And any good water cooling setup destroys even the highest end air cooler.

It seems like a great air cooler, and the price is def right, but anyone that says it matches water cooling doesn't know what they are talking about.
 
Any one know if this will fit in an Antec P180? I have the stock Intel cooler and the temps have gone up to 67C on hot days on full load. Thanks!
 
RideFree if you read the rest of the review at club OC it also mentions this...

Cooling Control and Performance:

The Eclipse has three cooling modes that obviously offer varying levels of performance and sound levels. With three settings (low, high, and PWM), you have the standards. Per the specifications listed, I tested each setting for idle at stock clocks/volts, load at stock clocks/volts, as well as idle/load at 4.4GHz/1.42v.

The stock cooler from Intel couldn?t handle anything over 3.8GHz, with throttling occurring at stock volts. Idle on the cooler hovered around 38C at a 21C ambient temperatures. At load up to 3.8GHz, the cooler would skyrocket up to 70C, with throttling occurring.

Testing was performed at 21C ambient. I know this seems cool for a house, but the two intake fans on the side of my case are sucking in cooler air straight from the AC vent in my house.

To be a fair review we need to see the temps of other coolers with the same access to that AC vent.

Here's the link to the Club OC review
 
Originally posted by: TMoney468
Any one know if this will fit in an Antec P180? I have the stock Intel cooler and the temps have gone up to 67C on hot days on full load. Thanks!
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I was wondering the same thing. Pretty much the same story here - p180 with stock intel cooler and temps seem a little bit high...
 
lol, putting this thing right by an AC is about the only way it'd compete against watercooling. There's no way at all that air cooling can compete with a real watercooling setup. Heck, even a crappy watercooling setup would get rid of more heat. Anyways, air is more convenient and less annoying to maintain so it still has it's plusses.

Oh and considering that it gets it's ass handed to it by several coolers that USED to be considered the big-boys it's not that impressive, lol. The typhoon beats it, and the thermalright ultra beats it...but the Thermalright Ultra Extreme is out nowdays, along with that enzotech cooler. And where's the damn Tuniq Tower in this chart =p BTW the regular Thermalright Ultra can perform better than that review seems to indicate, but I guess they're using a quiet fan or whatever.

Seriously, the big boys are:
Tuniq Tower 120
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (must have the word extreme, has another 2 heatpipes basically)
Enzotech Ultra-X

BTW you'll see all sorts of reviews sort a few of the coolers in all kinds of orders, but more or less these are probably the top 3 in air cooling right now (and I'd say the Tuniq is getting a little old now...time for an EXTREME edition I guess!)
 
All three, the ultra-120 Extreme, the Tuniq and the Enzotech are twice as much money.

I found this review which shows the Ultra-x pitted against the Eclipse.

I have the -120 Extreme and I should test it & the Eclipse on an 805D I have O/Ced to 4GHz.
 
I gathered from one of those reviews that it will fit any full size atx motherboard? I would like to get one, but I am not sure what motherboard I will be getting.
 
Someone buy this thing and test it for us!!

I am close to buying it but I have almost a grand in rebates out there right now and I am losing track......
 
I bought one but don't have an estimated arrival date yet.
I live in SoCal so it should arrive Wednesday or Thursday.
I recently installed a Coolermaster Hyper TX cooler in one of my Folding C2D systems and was very impressed. It runs significantly cooler than a Scythe Ninja Folding C2D system, and if this new Coolermaster cooler is even better, then I'll be a happy camper.
 
The price went up $5. I had it in my cart at $35, entered all of my info and it kept saying $35, then I clicked 'submit order' and it said 'oh, we just raised the price by $5.' I clicked cancel...I didn't really need it anyway, and I really hate companies that do that.
 
Originally posted by: monk3yboy
RideFree if you read the rest of the review at club OC it also mentions this...

Cooling Control and Performance:

The Eclipse has three cooling modes that obviously offer varying levels of performance and sound levels. With three settings (low, high, and PWM), you have the standards. Per the specifications listed, I tested each setting for idle at stock clocks/volts, load at stock clocks/volts, as well as idle/load at 4.4GHz/1.42v.

The stock cooler from Intel couldn?t handle anything over 3.8GHz, with throttling occurring at stock volts. Idle on the cooler hovered around 38C at a 21C ambient temperatures. At load up to 3.8GHz, the cooler would skyrocket up to 70C, with throttling occurring.

Testing was performed at 21C ambient. I know this seems cool for a house, but the two intake fans on the side of my case are sucking in cooler air straight from the AC vent in my house.

To be a fair review we need to see the temps of other coolers with the same access to that AC vent.

Here's the link to the Club OC review
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I'm not sure why 21C is supposedly cool for a house, that's 70°F. Most houses are somewhere near that. Another review listed in this thread also listed the ambient at 21°C.

 
I have installed this in an Antec-900 with a 6420 & the $125 Gigabyte m/b. 2GB 800 RAM. 3 Samsung 500s T1s?

Not only is it gorgeous but reports 26c on the processor o/ced to 3.2GHz (I think - gotta doublecheck with caffeine drip re-established b-4 certain).

OH! I also used the new Diamond (like A/S-5) that reports 5 degrees less heat than the A/S-5.
Impressive
 
Originally posted by: filibusterman
anyone know how this compares to a freezer pro
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I read up on a lot of reviews on CM coolers (Eclipse, Mars and Hyper TX) last week as CM has rebates on all 3. To paraphrase, Hyper TX is equivalent to Freezer 7 Pro in terms of build quality, temp and noise level; while the more elaborate/expensive Eclipse and Mars actually trailed Hyper TX on performance. The reviewers actually favored Hyper TX over its larger and more expensive siblings.

Review 1
Review 2
Review 3
 
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