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New Thermaltake Heatsink/Fan Looks Cool!

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marks70

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I've been looking around the last two days for a quiet but efficient heatsink/fan combination for my new 2500+ Barton. I came across this new fan at SVC:

http://www.svc.com/nthtrwtmdfan.html

Looks pretty sweet with being an aluminum heatsink and copper base, and a 74mm TMD adjustable fan.

Anyone have one of these? I'm debating between this and a Thermalright SK-7 w/ an Enermax adjustable fan. I'll be doing slight overclocking but nothing that would require an increase in voltages.

Opinions or suggestions?

Thanks!
 
SK7 will be better.

The thermaltake you linked to looks like another Volcano 9, which isn't all that great.
 
thats not very much airflow. i guess its a small fan. you'd get better performance from an SK-7 and a $2.50 80mm case fan
 
Go with an SK-7 and a panaflo.

thats what I'm using on my XP2200+ Tbred B, and I'm getting temperature of 33/4 (idle) - 39(load) C with very little noise indeed. No need for an adjustable here!
 
Have you tried using your forehead to cool your CPU.......it might bring your temps down alot.....


karl26
 
That is one ugly hs. All the cheap hss have a copper insert into aluminum, expensives ones are all copper.
 
The TMD fans are nice, and you could even pick up one of those fans separate and place it on a SK7, which is a great sink for the $. However the TMDs are 70mm, so will need to spin faster and thus louder than an 80 to get the same airflow.

The enermax adjustable, a panaflow, or a pabst on the SK7 is your best bet.

I have to diagree with OulOat, Copper and Aluminum hybrid heat sinks are among the most costly ones out there. Look at Swiftech's entire product line, which are the best performing air coolers I am aware of, and $50 without fan.

The reason for doing Al and Cu hybrid is that copper absorbs heat quckly, but sheds it slowly; aluminum absorbs slowly and sheds quickly. So you absorb the heat away from the CPU with copper, and you use the aluminum to help it shed the heat more rapidly. The better hybrid coolers will have both the cylindrical copper core and the aluminum fins in the air path instead of putting a tiny copper disk.
 
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