Normal air-cooling have reached it's limits, now we need something that is not purely a big heatsinks with a few heatpipes stuck in there.
@Redbeard: How do you mount this on a AM2/AM2+/AM3 socket? Do you need a backplate or is it the easy clip-on?
My sample arrived today, will test it first on the S775 and later on once my 950 comes in on the I7... will post some piccies later on this evening...
How do you think this thing will perform skinnee.
You have enough knowledge that you can probably give us a pretty good guestimate, based on the radiator size, and this unit is build upon an older astek design.
I will take your guess as more credible than the manufacturers results, since 15C better than a TOP air cooler seems pretty much impossible since we are starting to enter good water territory, depending on load.
PS.
I love dogs in avatars.
I have only S775 and 1366 mounting in my sample (READ NOT RETAIL), will ask Corsair if there's gonna be an AMD version too
Anyway here are the early piccies :
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00180.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00183.jpg
Socket 775 mounting + Backplate
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00185.jpg
Socket 1366 mounting + Backplate
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00184.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00186.jpg
Cooling unit :
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00189.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00187.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/OAP2/Corsair...a9DSC00190.jpg
^ Looks good , hope we can get few numbers soon :)
I would prefer not to speculate on the performance of product I do not have in my lab. I will say that the radiator looks to be higher FPI (looks around 20FPI) and hopefully copper tubes and fins to squeeze as much performance as possible out of the compact design. With higher FPI, the performance gains truly start to show in the 1500+ RPM range.
Again, all my comments are based solely on observation of the pictures in this thread and not from experience or testing in my lab.
The dog in my avatar is the skinnee labs safety officer. I have an ESD smock that I have been trying to get him in for a picture, but he isn't cooperating. I'll get one eventually. :up:
For those of you asking - the initial shipment will not have AMD brackets inside the box, they will be available from Corsair upon request for just shipping & handling costs.
Starting to get excited. I hope this is good.
Can't wait to see your numbers to deny/support hardocps numbers XD
u do also realize both of those systems offered a delphi/laing DDC. These are the pumps we custom h2o people use.
Which is why i said, the old nautilus was better because all u needed was a rad change to copper, and it would decimate any air sink.
I honestly think corsair should of just used this radiator on there old nautilus and pumped it out with a better cpu block.
Then that would be a very nice small package system.
Unless corsair would like to tell us the specs on that cpu pump / block?
Did you guys mount a DDC on it like swiftech did?
Looking at the current mounting system a backplate would be far easier to produce and it avoids flexing of the mobo, plus you need to turn the cooler into the bracket. With push pins it would be harder to get the same pressure at the 4 mounting points. I would prefer a backplate anyday over push pins...
What we need is some reviews here , other than the [H] one !
From what i understand it will be hard to cool it with fresh air.You could only use the ambient of ur case and an exhaust fan for the rad.
Lets hope the rest reviews come soon.
@Redbeard:which methodology did u use when testing?Also did u use 1 or two fans -push pull-?
Corsair want's you to set it up like the Hocp article, so the fan sucks air inside the case and pushes it onto the rad... so ambient onto the rad
Early test show that the air flow in the case is crucial to get it working right, even an extra Nb fan reduced it's performance by 1-2°c. Current testing is done in an Antec P180 with an OC'ed E7400. I7 will be done in a monstrous Lian Li case paired with an OC'ed 950.
Case setup is very important, hence why I think we will see different results depending on the case and setup used.
It that's the case, then SG05 will do wonders with it's 120mm intake fan.
That's right. It's a bump for a very important product :stick:
Any reviews or sneakpeaks yet? :D
Nothing yet ? :(
Was thinking the same......but I guess to test properly at stock / OC / standard fan / extra fan / different fan etc can take some time.
Will post some numbers on S775 tonite, I7 is in progress