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Tom's Hardware Cooler Shootout

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andrey

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This baby is LOONGGG!

Therefore, it is not surprising that cheap coolers, which can be found everywhere in the shops, turn out to be of rather poor design. These cheap products can easily be identified. The heat sink of the cooler is made of cast iron instead of aluminum or copper and the fan comes without a acceptable bearing. Already after very short time the cooler quits its job and ends where it should - in the rubbish possibly taking the CPU with it.

Source: Tom's Hardware - More Information
 
Wow it's Andrey.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me you'd be toting T*m P*bst.

I'm surprised those words aren't banned from Anandtech just like ebay.

I've seen better info all over the web. Somehow he seems to be more fascinated with the design details of each cooling solution than actually performing thorough tests. 10 minutes of a predefined (and undefined to us) test is not good. There is only one platform and only one CPU grade used here. Not to mention this is clearly a graphics intensive application producing the heat. So it is highly dependent on the graphics card and case being used at the time.

If you want pure HSF technology discussion, AnandTech has a couple of noteworthy articles.
 
What i dont like in all these reviews is the give a headgehog the FOP38 a nice fat fan, and they give my Alpha pal 6035 some sissy ass fan, all the heatsinks should idealy use the same FAN, since when u goto buy a heatsink , like from 2cooltek, u can choose ur fan
 
I usually like to look at the same things from different perspectives. Although Anand does excellent reviews, sometimes it is nice to look at the same product from a different point of view. I'm personally very surprised the way Tom talks about so-popular Taisol heatsink, especially compare to the way Anand reviewed it.

Tom:
The cooling performance is identical with the Intel cooler. The low size of this model is striking, the fan comes with strong curved vanes. The Taisol is one of the lightweights with only 165 grams. Altogether a product of pretty average qualities.

Anand:
With the CGK74092, TaiSol proves that the best receipe for making a good cooler is to use a heatsink that is as large as possible. The combination with a fan that is efficient enough, but not excessively loud, the TaiSol cooler an excellent choice for overclockers
 
The Taisol looked like the CEK733092, which ships with retail. Typical Tom IMHO, lots of pages to get hits but very little real meat.
 
Folks,

The reason we post these links is precisely because they provide us with differing
opinions, information, and perspectives that we can use to form our own ideas from.

I won't consider an article bad just because it comes from Tom's anymore than I
consider an Anand article to be the one true gospel of system building.

I've seen articles both here and there that tend to overanalyze some minor aspects
of a reviewed item, and completely miss some feature that I might think is important
for me to want to buy the product. That's why I try to read reviews at other sites,
in the hope that someone else will cover those features and allow me to get a
fuller picture overall. That's also why I spend more time in the forums than
I usually do reading the reviews, to see what the reaction is to the good and
missing points in an article - much as Mikewarrior2 points out.







 
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