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Just saw the new www.swiftech.com homepage; 5th (last) image in the flash image cycler is a new air cooler I haven't seen before.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4192/swiftech.jpg
Cursory glance shows some good things...staggered heatpipe positioning, sealed sides, non-flat sides. Hopefully it has the typical, great Swiftech mounting hardware too.
Looks pretty small from the picture. Still interested to see how well it performs though.
I hope to see good temps with that :3 Swiftech does very good watercooling stuff :)
There's probably a radiator and a pump inside of the fins.
http://www.swiftech.com/polaris120heatsink.aspx
its a $60 5 pipe hdt, so it should under preform the xig unless its got some magic
Not a fan of the mounting system at all. http://smiliesftw.com/x/thumbsdownsquared.gif
Yeah, doesn't look like the best, or at least compared to what they've had for the Apogee GTZ/XT/XTL.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowfat
The airflow chambering looks really interesting. Looks really, really restrictive though....wouldn't doubt it benefits more from push+pull more than other heatsinks (but there's no second fan spot).
does anyone know if the 849g weight is with or without the fan
It looks like they did a really good job with the base. There's barely any gap between the heatpipes.
http://www.swiftech.com/images/Produ...-BASE-X300.png
Is that necessarily a good thing to not have space between the heatpipes?
i would think so as if they touch it would ballance the heat and the closer they are the more pipes would contract the hot part, but HDT is not the best method for a large number of pipes.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottALot
I wonder who the ODM is?
Hmm, should be interesting to see some reviews on this. Any idea why they still sell their old school heat sinks?
ODM guess, Sunbeam
if I had to guess thats what I would go with. Nothing wrong with sunbeam, but the product is priced to high.Quote:
Originally Posted by bot@xs
nothing wrong with it at all. price i might agree with but sunbeam makes good stuff.
Yeah 60 seems very high compared too the competition.
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It is now available @ PPC's
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=30407
i will be taking a look at this cooler and put it through it's paces for the next few weeks for TechREACTION.
i will post a link once it's done for anybody interested.
Shoulda taken pics of my CCF when it arrived way back when.Quote:
Originally Posted by bot@xs
Tweezers, a wrench, pliars, screwdriver were involved in preparing it for use. :shakes:
Looks pretty nice
The first two reviews are out:
http://www.overclockersonline.net/re...-120-heatsink/
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/395...iew/index.html
wow, that was pretty quick
I don't get why they disregarded push-pull completely with such a dense fin array.
i wouldn't mind seeing a review with push/pull high speed yates...Quote:
Originally Posted by danielkza
I don't think that would fit on my asus ch4.
Not unless I took a stick of mem out and went single chan.
Pretty sure that fan would get in the way because the heatsink is to short.
Ediit:
I'm wrong, the fan wouldn't get in the way.
It would still be close, with the 120mm+ width, there's not much room with the 80mm stock heatsink I got on there now...
Sits right against my mem fan.
I'm pretty sure this would not work if I were to try it.
It's still the usual up/dn arrangement with the fan.
Blowing the hot air towards the top of the case instead of the back, but to each his or her own I guess :),
I think it's odd how they are using the heatsink directly on the core like that.
Looks like a good idea in practice.
But those things are thin and hollow, they are supposed to fill them with alcohol or acetone but at some companies don't, thermaltake don't.
Quote:
Originally Posted by danielkza
This is a single fan product guys..Quote:
Originally Posted by stangracin3
Any chance of a push+pull capable revision in the future?Quote:
Originally Posted by gabe
In light of our renewed commitment to serving the air-cooling market, I'd say that chances are pretty high that we will look at all possible optimizing solutions :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cory
That's exactly what I was asking, why is it a single fan product?Quote:
Originally Posted by gabe
Because we decided to optimize the airflow for single fan use. Dual fan designs necessitate different fin configuration, not optimum for single fan use.Quote:
Originally Posted by danielkza
that doesn't mean i dont want to see dual highspeed yates on it...Quote:
Originally Posted by gabe
lol
I guess its kind of bad if it can't beat the 212+ more convincingly with a higher rpm fan. I know hdt heatsinks are supposed to be cheaper to manufacture but its been proven many times that a solid base one is better.
Convincingly ?Quote:
Originally Posted by halfwaythere
Let's discard stock speed tests for now, since the small thermal load can't really create any significant differences between all these high end coolers.
Look at the O/C results:
According to the Overclockers online article, the Polaris beat the 212+ by 3 Degrees C (i5 @ 3.9 Ghz and 1.4v), and according to the Tweaktown article, it beat it by 5 Degrees C. In my book, anything in this range is more than convincing.
This being said, I do not believe in all honesty that comparing the Polaris 120 to the 212+ is fair to the 212+. The 212+ is a 4 heatpipe design, whereas the Polaris is a 5 heatpipe design.
I am only arguing on the word "convincingly" in an attempt to put things into a different prospective: in effect, in our thermal management world once a product reaches the top performance of a given class, the differences in Degrees C become in fact quite small. So in order to attract the attention of the buyers, we have to offer more than just performance: price, looks, convenience, mounting, etc etc.. It becomes a complete package.
The goal for the Polaris was clear, and let me restate it: "The lead concept for this product is value: packing the maximum performance and broadest range of utilizations in an affordable yet qualitative offering"
Did we succeed? Time only will tell. So far, the Media verdict is encouraging, but ultimately, only users like you will make a difference in terms of how succesful the product really is.
Be :cool:
BTW, don't feel bad about my argument. When I firt looked at the non O/C results on the overclockers online article, I also saw that the difference was only 1C, and that is non-convincing indeed. What it means is that if you don't overclock, you really don't need a Polaris class cooler ;)