1366 CPU Heatsinks Round 1

[bentleya]

BTW, haven't you thought about only doing this tests for heavily overclocked systems? I mean, doing soooo much work for stock cpu's is kinda pointless IMO, you would get the results you need by just overclocking your cpu and doing the tests.

Not everyone Overclocks , However you must understand there is over 20 hours of work for each cooler just on stock cooling.

I am working on overclocking temps but the hold up is finding a good median between and light overclock and a extreme overclock.

[prava]

Not everyone Overclocks , However you must understand there is over 20 hours of work for each cooler just on stock cooling.

I am working on overclocking temps but the hold up is finding a good median between and light overclock and a extreme overclock.

Don't get me wrong, mate. The presentation and the work you did in this tests are awesome ... but pointless

Awesome because you put a lot of effort and everything is really well explained and throughly tested...but pointless because if you run any cpu at stock any HS in between the top15-20 will be fine.

So, what is my point exactly? Well, first of all, who needs a bad-ass HS? Somebody who is not happy with his/her temps. Who is, most of the time, that kind of people? Those who overclock the crap out of their cpu. So, why would you invest your time in making such effort in order not to find any real world conclusion? I mean, I have both the NH-U12P, the TRUE, the Ultra-90 and watercooling gear and let me tell you something: I could pick blindly any of those to cool any of my stock cpu's and It would not do any difference at all. If, instead, we overclock the system, I can tell you that there are differences between all those HS because, as we push to the limits, we see who stands over each other once the dust settles.

This would be the same as comparing 5870 vs GTX295 on a 640x480. Do you think it makes any difference which of those pick at that resolution? Do you think anybody who plays at that resolution will pick any of these such expensive cards? This is exactly the same as what you are doing: we are not talking about $20 HS, but about $50-80 ones, so lets make apples to apples and test what really matters: which is overclock to the max.

PS: imagine what would we say to Vapor or Skinee if they tested an i7 920 @ stock clocks... Why they don't even bother about testing stock clocks? Because any cpu-block around the market is more than enough for any stock-clocked cpu you can put it in. Here it's exactly the same.

PSS: just a bit of perspective here, like I said you did an amazing presentation and everything is well written (hell, even for somebody like me who isn't native english speaker it was damn easy and comfortable to go through all the test ). So keep up the good work.

PSSS: you should just pump your cpu to 4.2ghz and test the HS you have around. You would save a lot of time and you would have the most conclusive results...