New Champ ~ 14 Degrees C temp rise @ 150 Watt Load

[wwswimming]

i'm surprised no one mentioned the ...

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Universal CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835154011

got the top spot in the recent Frostytech top 10 list -
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2480

"In fact I'll save you the suspense and tell you straight up that it tops Frostytech's Intel reference chart and that it's one of the Top 5 best-ever heatsinks tested on Frostytech's AMD reference chart to date. And that's not comparing the Tower 120 Extreme against five... or even ten recent heatsinks... Frostytech.com compares it to well over 250 different heatsinks! "

14.1 degrees C temp rise @ 150 watt load.

$63

 

[Hey Zeus]

Looks cool

 

[SunnyD]

Only problem is one review, particularly a synthetic one, doesn't take into account individual cooling situations.

 

[deimos3428]

That looks ridiculously sharp, but I suppose overclocking is only fun when there's a risk of losing a finger. All we need now is someone to create a heatsink with spinning fins in lieu of a fan...

 

[Corporate Thug]

holy crap, that thing looks massive.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Its a regular Tuniq Tower, plus an extra heatpipe, and with the heatsink fins staggered an extra 10% or so to each side (if you look at the black top plate that is the fan housing, on a normal TT, it almost sits flush to the ends, but on the extreme it has another 1/4 inch of spacing to the tip of the fins).

I too agree that on a synthetic bench it is hard to say what the real benefit will be. You need to see the numbers from the different CPU's themselves to be honest. A bench setup will have a pretty uniform heat plate, which doesn't simulate the core placement well on a CPU, where you will see much better performance from certain heatsinks due to their heatpipe layout being directly over the cores, then if they miss the cores...

That said, I have an original Tuniq Tower on my Q9450 overclocked to 3.2GHz (without even trying... I didn't even know I had set it that fast until I did the math a month later). The fan in the heatsink never hits full speed even when gaming or doing video conversion.

 

[aigomorla]

holy crap, that thing looks massive.

i started moving to water, when i noticed sinks were getting larger and larger.

Now there almost 1/2 the size of a typical board, and weight about 2x as much.

Vs. a water block which will never weight anything close to it.

 

[Ayah]

Yeah... Frostytech isn't exactly the site to go to for useful heatsink reviews.

 

[Jd007]

Frostytech's synthetic benchmarks are almost useless in predicting real life performance. bit-tech's real life situation review of the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme shows that it is actually not a good heatsink at all.

 

[wwswimming]

Frostytech's synthetic benchmarks are almost useless in predicting real life performance. bit-tech's real life situation review of the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme shows that it is actually not a good heatsink at all.

so the difference is test set-up ?

i sure would like to see pictures of the 2 test set-ups.