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Oh bugger. My bad :slap: :am:
Sonic Tower is better thab BT? I suposse with a louder fan...
not on a high load proc, doesn't matter what fans you put on, the BT comes out on top..just my testing, take it all with a grain of salt, one experience is not the worlds..
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Originally Posted by IYP
Remount it.. I have it mounted in a Enermax Maxflow inverted and my idle is 28, load 41 deg c.
Listen to UnG - the grey part indicates that he must have some type of infinite wisdom! :D
Yeah,Quote:
Originally Posted by dnottis
but his custom title doesn't. :D
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Originally Posted by Jupiler
Have you tested it yet on the inel rig really wana know how it performs on a 4ghz+ intel prescott. ;)
Nope,
haven't picked it up yet.
They only notified me at 6pm, which was to late for me to get it.
I'll be picking it up tomorrow morning at 9am, and I hope to post some results in the afternoon, if all goes well.
How does it compare with the XP-90C
leaving all other factors aside, pure cpu cooling, which HS is better? The BT or the 90C
the BT... but only on high load chips... I found almost zippo diff on single core procs for example...
EVERYONE, JUST GO BUY THE BIG TYPHOON - YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED :slapass:
Sorry to yell, but it was necessary.... :D
It's like no one believes it unti the see it... but for the price it's not much of a gamble...
I'm going to take issue with what you wrote above.Quote:
Originally Posted by IvanAndreevich
What is the airflow difference between the two fans on the heatsinks ? To judge accurately how the heatsink performs you need to have the same amount of air blowing over them. If the Typhoon has equal or less cfm than the Zalman then I agree, it looks like the Typhoon does a better job however that still does not fully show one way or another as one of the heatsinks might have more "capacity" than the other before temperatures start to runaway.
The only way I could hope to make a judgement betwen the two would be to buy both, rip their poor cfm low speed fans out and then use them on my rig and get my own values.
Regards
Andy
Buy an Asetek Micro, pull that idiotic duct off, place the fan right on the heatsink. Did give me good results :)
This cooler takes less space and is light too. *lovin` it*
Does anyone know how the Typhoon compares to the Tt Tower 112 copper monster? (with lets say two normal 92mm fans)
More to read!
http://www.hardwarexl.com/index.php?...tart=0&lang=en
Let's put it this way... with the stock fan on my BT (it might get 34cfm), I get 4-7c better temps than with an XP90 and 110cfm fan...Quote:
Originally Posted by zakelwe
OK,
I picked up the BT today and I was impressed by the looks of this cooler. What a monster.
Actually, it was the first time I bought a cooler with a heatpipe design, and using 120mm fans.
Installation was pretty easy, the manual explains it pretty clearly, although I had to pay attention not to tighten the nuts to hard, because I firstly did, which resulted in the board bending pretty badly.
There's enough space and clearence around the cooler, in case anybody would wonder.
So, after all was installed, I powered up the rig (still using the same settings), and was impressed by the quietness of the 120mm fan. I almost can't hear it.
The loudest part in the rig is my Fortron 530W PSU, whose fans are pretty annoying. I'll be looking for a more quiet PSU though.
So off it went.
After XP booted completely, I ran 2 instances of Prime95, just like it did before with the Zalman 7000-CU.
The temps of the DFI 875P-T fluctuate a lot.
With the Zalman, they went from 61-67°, mostly around 64-65°, but never got them under 60°C.
So I was anxious to see how the BT would perform, and what temp difference I would expect.
After almost 4 hours of Prime, I was impressed by the temp decrease compared with the 7000-CU.
Fluctuated between 50-57°, mostly around 54-55°, never got over 57°C though.
A nice whopping 10°C decrease with the BT, very impressive I must say.
All in all, I'm very happy with the BT, maybe temps might go down a little more, once the AC has settled in.
Will be hard to beat this cooler for it's price.
Here some screenies :
http://users.skynet.be/MetalHead/BT/4Ghz_prime_ZA.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/MetalHead/BT/4Ghz_prime_BT.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/MetalHead/BT/...estable_ZA.jpg
http://users.skynet.be/MetalHead/BT/...estable_BT.jpg
Thanks for the results Jupiler, that's a whopping decrease..not bad for something you cannot really hear.... I have ordered a faster fan (up to 100cfm) and I'm going to put it on a variable speed controller. Let's see if the BT can do better... I think this cooler offers the best bang for the buck..let's see if I can beat up some of the WC kits with a new fan for the 50 bucks I'll have invested...
See her's in sig :buddies: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by IYP
I agree it is looking pretty good, what I am saying is that rather than hype one way or another it is better in my view to put as much info as you can across and let people decide for themselves as more results come in. The first poster was implying the Zalman was bad, which is not really the case, it just might be that something else is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ugly n Grey
I've ordered a BT to see how she performs as they are cheap and available and worth a spin.
Regards
Andy
I agree, gentleman, you heard zakelwe. try it for yourself :)
In reply to Jupilers results that does look very good. I have a 7000 at present which has the original fan ripped out and a delta 80mm 80cfm FFB0812EHE on top.
http://www.aocb77.dsl.pipex.com/fan1.jpg
As you can see there is also a Papst 6212nm 170mm which is over 200 cfm and cools graphics card, memory and that pesky MOSFET heatsink that gets hot when you have it jumpered for more than 3.3v VDIMM.
This was part of the reason I was saying the results provided might be too simplistic and it all depends on your own setup. With my set up I have two competing air flows at 90 degrees to each other and so the shape and orientation of the heatsink might be just as important as the amount of metal and the cfm of the fan. Also my setup is in my shed where temps can range from -5C to 35C ambient.
When the BT arrives I'll post some results in comparison to the zalman to grow the knowledge pool. Thanks for the tip about bending Jupiler, that is a classic error I tend to make. Cheers.
Regards
Andy
No problem Andy.
Actually, the bending happened when I installed the standoffs to the boards, not after screwing the little nuts in.
If you plan on using the cooler on several boards in the future, I suggest not to peel off the tape from the spounge. It's double sided sticky tape, and once installed, might be hard to remove it without damaging the spounge itself.
But the cooler will remain on my pressi for a longer, so it doesn't bother me actually.
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Originally Posted by Ugly n Grey
I popped on one of the TT 120mm 78 CFM fans, although it was loud I dropped another 3 deg on load. 2.8 Ghz @ 1.64v never broke 39deg c. Stock fan is about 42. The fan was too loud but worked over the hot summer, I put the stock fan back on now and it's not breaking 40c with the fall temps coming (NY).
Great news on the 10 deg C drop the BT is amazing!!
Hey you guys see the TT copy of the Aquagate? Silent water review - here we come!!
http://www.thermaltake.com/watercool...r/cl-w0065.htm
erm........I dont wish too sound st00pid....but really, how silent is it? (if you can express it in words that it... :stick: ) :D