the NEW king of socket cpu cooling : The swiftech MC-462???

[dew042]

here's a review thanks to overclockers.com: http://www.overclockers.com/articles347/

Its huge and mounts on the four holes on the sides of the cpu. copper base, aluminum pins, 20oz total weight I believe. Its big enough to mount a 80mm fan on! With a c/w of .14 on its highest fan speed, this looks to be the BEST of the BEST for air cooling....

but the price tag....urrgh.

here's swifttech's page for it....http://www.swiftnets.com/MC462.htm

dew.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Looks awesome, but I think they should go back and redo the old heatsinks wtih the side-coring thermocouple. I'll guess that this unit's thermocouple was farther away from the cpu core compared to the swiftech one.

But the swiftech would probably still come out on top. Only real drawback, no way to mount it on non-socket-a setups.



Mike

 

[GiZzO]

Ouch tho 60 bucks for the bare heatsink itself, 80 bucks with the ultra powerful delta fan. Is this unit blowing onto the HS or blowing out? I would think out cause of the pin design. Wonder how this bad boy would perform with a Papst quiet fan...Hmmmm 92mm ducted would be interesting on this monster

 

[kw3i]

the fan is blowing in i believe

 

[johneetrash]

someone should build taht rheostat to work with those 38cfm deltas (or would it already work?) i have no idea how to build one or i'd already do it i thik i read somewhere that around 9v there was significant drop in noise but stayed within 1-2 C? maybe misread temp?

 

[frastini]

you know you have trouble when ur 80$ heatsink costs more than ur 50$ duron or your 50$ stick of 256m pc133

 

[kw3i]

haha your still assuming people are just using these things on durons. they work with p4s as well ya know: )

 

[frastini]

still an obscene ammount of money for a lump of aluminum and a 10$ fan