Review Spire Thermax II !

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We were sponsored by the Spire, and came to Portugal a sample of Spire Thermax II, first I leave you with a description of the company and the objectives of it, and then the tests and results with this fantastic cooler.



Spire Company Profile

Founded in 1991, Spire is a Chinese manufacturer, dedicated to the manufacture of thermal solutions brand Spire. To meet the needs of the world market, the Spire Group established its facilities & one based in China and branches in the United States of America, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Brazil and all of them strategically located to provide the better customer service.

Construction of the Spire Group and all its products were approved in 1998 by EC standards, UR, CSA, and TUV. We achieved the approval of AMD and VIA, as well as the recognition of the''International Standard Commission for Quality Assurance''with quality standard ISO-9002 & ISO-9001. (No.Q16437). Currently, to control the temperature of high-performance processors are demanding solutions necessary dissipation. A manufacturer of high quality, we meet the needs of the IT sector, with good products at a competitive price with fast delivery and 5-year warranty.

The reliability of our products has reached the loyalty of leading manufacturers and distributors around the world. In addition, we maintain close trade ties with recognized international brands in the computer industry. The Spire invested in the quality of manufacturing, R & D to ensure constant innovation in a wide range of products dissipation. Our goal is to offer high quality products to national distributors, as well as ODM and OEM customers

Spire Mission

The philosophy of our company is the center of our business, we continue with our intensity goal in providing our customers the best service and products of the highest quality. The Spire is continually expanding market areas and developing relationships with our key technology and industry partners.

Our Goal

Always searching for improvement and constant innovation to provide products for advanced computing and personalized services to our customers.


Spire Production Capacity

Products Spire acquired a reputation for reliability, consistency, and a genuine quality. We developed and manufactured a complete line of sinks for the CPU core processors which are compatible with Intel's latest generation AMD and Intel on the market today. We offer the convenience of manufacturing highly customized thermal solutions with the assurance of experience focused on the customer.

Moving with time

As our clients grow in numbers and sizes, we increase significantly the number of employees, engineers, IT professionals, affiliates and new product lines. This allows strategic growth to continue in providing the best products and support, bringing the total satisfaction for our customers. We will continue to provide only the best in computer technology and professional services to our customers.

Environmental Policy

Our company prides itself on producing products in accordance with RoHS standards (Restricted of Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) which prohibit the addition of cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and brominated polybrominated flame diphenyl ether (PBDE) in the European market.

The Spire is committed to comply with all applicable environmental regulations. We work in a way to environmental responsibility and consider the current requirements due to regulatory, legal and for which we are required.


Specifications of the animal (taken from the site of the Spire):

The universally compatible Thermax II is the big brother of the original Thermax Pro cooler innovation by Spire. Designed with four 8mm copper U-shaped heat pipes enclosed by seventy-five aluminum stacked micro-purposes. The heat-sink base is equipped with the latest Direct-Touch heat-pipe technology providing the optimal cooling configuration. The Thermax II fits nearly every processor available on the market today. Its cooling capacity ranges all the way from low end micro-processors, up to today's hottest 130W dual-core processors. This cooler has it all! Equipped with Spire's signature UV-reactant BlueStar fan, this towering cooler is built to last!

Features:
* Four 8mm all u shaped copper heat-pipes
* All new Direct Touch-heat-pipe technology
* UV-reactant BlueStar 120mm fan design
* PCI Fan speed control unit included
* Amazingly silent, just 29.0 dBA (low speed)
* 57 stamped Aluminum Micro-Fin's

* Supports the latest Intel & AMD micro-processors
* Cooling capacity up to the extreme hot 130W CPU's
Compatibility:
The Thermax II CPU Cooler is compatible with the latest Intel and AMD micro-processors based on sockets 775/1156/1366 for AM2/AM3/940/939 for Intel and AMD.


Price:
USD 42.99 / EURO 29.95

Application:
LGA1156, LGA1366, LGA775 and AMD AM3 and 939/AM2 based ATX and Micro ATX platforms

Product Includes:
* Owner's Manual Multilanguage EZ Installation * clip * PCI Fan-speed control unit * BlueFrost Thermal compound
Product Specification
Socket 1156 / AM3 / 775 / AM2 / 1366 cooling kit
Heat Sink Dimension: 125 × 77 × 155 mm (l × w × h)
12VDC Fan: 120 × 120 × 25 mm

coxinete Sleeve bearing
Speed 1200 ~ 2200 RPM + / -10%
Voltage 4.2 W
Noise Level 19.0 ~ 29.0 dBA
Airflow 93.3CFM at 2.200 rpm
Electricity 0.35 A
Life hours Sleeve: 30.000
Four features 8mm all u shaped copper heat-pipes
All new Direct Touch-heat-pipe technology
UV-reactant BlueStar 120mm fan design
Near silent at low speed setting just 29.0 dBA
57 stamped Aluminum Micro-Fins
Supports the latest Intel & AMD micro-processors
Connector 3 Pin, mainboard (Incl.PCI Speed-Controller)
Application Intel: Core 2 Duo ~ 3.33 GHz (775 Dual-core)
Intel: Core 2 Extreme ~ 3.2 GHz (775 Dual-core)
Core 2 Duo ~ 3.0 GHz (775 Quad-core)
Core i3 1156
Core i5 ~ 2.66 GHz 1156
Core i7 ~ 3.20 GHz 1366
LGA775 ~ 3.93 GHz (Prescott)
Pentium D ~ 3.4 GHz (775 Dual-Core)
Pentium EE ~ 3.73 GHz (775 Dual-Core)
AMD: Athlon 64 FX-74 (K8)
Athlon 64 X2 ~ 9500 GHz (AM2)
Athlon X2 ~ 9500 GHz (AM2)
Phenom X3 ~ 8500 GHz (AM2/AM3)
Phenom X4 ~ 9600 GHz (AM2/AM3)

Thermal resistance 0.14 ° C / W
Type Thermal BlueFrost - SP802 blue grease (Injection Tube, 0.5g)
* All Spire CPU cooling products come with thermal compound either pre-applied onto the cooler or in an injection tube. Compound will begin to function at its optimum potential, after a gradual increase in heat-dissipation, approximately 168 hours (7days) after initial application.

* All technical data shown above are measures of our own laboratory. Specifications may change without notice



Test System:

i7 920 D0
Dfi t3h6
3gb Corsair Xms3
PowerColor HD 5850
Spire Thermax II
Fractal R2 Titanium gray
Western Digital 250 gb
Corsair Hx 750 watts

Monitor 32 "Samsung (only tested in large)


Before you can see more detail the packaging as it came to our headquarters:
Up to glue on the tape is visible to the mark






And now the packaging of Cooler






In the photos does not seem but the pack of cooler is huge, and for the contents of it a smaller package was the same effect and was better, the top of the pack is completely empty, the back can see other products from Spire .






Plastic packaging contains the cooler, separate from the fan, and retention for the different sockets on the right side, left side we see the cooler other accessories such as grease and a controller for a fan.



Unboxing:





The contents of the package, the Cooler is made of aluminum and has 8 copper heatpipes, containing the brand logo at the top, the fan controller that can be used for fan cooler or whatever to use the system to push and pull for example, grease-blue, their deductions for socket 775 and socket 1366, the brand not sent restraint socket 1156 unfortunately the bolts and multiple connections to use the fan, the fan reacts to UV, another downside is so 2 fins included come to imposibilitar fan and so the use of two fans, which is easily solved by getting a box to make that effect, that depending on the model of it.






Mounting on the Board:







Mounting the cooler is not very difficult, the instruction manual is very helpful, the grease used in the test was not the source but the brand Akasa, are visible the various details of the cooler, the vanes to hold the retention are based AMD system, and the Fan 120 mm UV reactive






System mounted in the Case:






The test system described above in the beautiful Fractal received from sponsor, the fan was on the motherboard to work a maximum speed of 2500 rpm is pretty cool but very audible at full speed, with only 2 fans and the stock of a fractal that already included in the box.


Test and overclocking:










The cooler was tested on stock, the minimum temperature was 29 degrees at idle, picking up the CPU overclocking up to 3.5 GHz and being stable as can be seen by printscreens the maximum temperature reached at full load (100%) was 59 2 degrees using the stock fans and the fractal, it was possible to investigate further the cooling capacity of this cooler, initially had doubts about their quality of manufacture and the ability to disipação, doubts that they have with the tests, the maximum tdp that he stands second to own Spire on their website is 130 watts but my cpu was apparently more "warm" so you can look at the print Realtemp was undoubtedly a very pleasant surprise!




Strengths:

• Price
• Performance
• Fan and very fresh reagent to UV
• Manual in Portuguese
• Inclusion of controller fans, the possibility of regulating the rmp using your controller
• Easy to install
• Supports Intel and AMD
• Inclusion of thermal paste







Weaknesses:

• Packaging huge
• Fan noisy at maximum (2500 rpm)
• Pasta thermal low quality
• including only two vanes for fans and so allows you to use one fan home with a little "modding" allows you to use two in cooler.
• Brackets of plastic that can break over time.

Conclusion:

The ratio price quality of Thermax II is excellent for what it includes is indeed surprising, the fan is UV reagent to a final interesting touch is a great cooler and relatively quiet, includes many accessories for home, the driver of the fan is one must, to be used to control the fan stock cooler or one that includes the box or that the user already has, initially appeared to be a cooler more doubtful after a more careful analysis we found that set an option is valid and quite interesting Undoubtedly, this cooler supreendeu positively, being pretty cool, alias more than the own brand announces inclusive held up quite well to the i7 920 that gets very hot, is compatible with multiple sockets already mentioned above and with processors from Intel and of what AMD is also a point in its favor, unfortunately the brand not sent restraint socket 1156, but contacted took time to send them, there is little accretion of performance with the stock fan at maximum RPM, making it only more audible, is not a monster performance, or quality of construction, but for the price (30 € in Europe), consistency and accessories included in it, together with performance on the test this Cooler is a must have for wireless systems and Oc Oc with not much pulled, endured well with a 3.5 ghz overclocking in I7, is seeking a solucçao of aircooling that hang with overclocking not very demanding or even have the CPU "cold" in the same voltage source, and a low price then this cooler is the option ideal!
No doubt another candidate for a seat on the market Aircooling, the Spire has done a good job in this cooler, has a good performance at a low price!




Source : http://www.hardmodding.org/showthread.php?t=251