This heatsink/fan kit comes in two primary parts, with the heatsink itself separate to the included 80mm fan. It confused us as to why it was in pieces until after we joined them together and whacked the resulting cooler onto Chernobyl with the Socket 478 retention mechanism. Or at least attempted to.
This heatsink/fan kit comes in two primary parts, with the heatsink itself separate to the included 80mm fan. It confused us as to why it was in pieces until after we joined them together and whacked the resulting cooler onto Chernobyl with the Socket 478 retention mechanism. Or at least attempted to.The retention clip on the side without the fan goes on without a hitch, but the fan was severely blocking the other side. This is a real shame and means you need to pull off the fan whenever installing, upgrading, changing goop or uninstalling. This would have been acceptable had the fan been a simple clip-on fan. Not only does it use four cross-head screws, but their heads are far too easily dug out, making screwing them in or out a mighty difficult task. Luckily that was the only problem we had – all other sockets seem fine.This HSF has three long heatpipes, each one halved and led up through the 36 fi ns on either side. In theory, more heatpipes leading away from the central point of thermal output should drag away more heat up to the point of air-dissipation.For the transference of heat, it is made entirely of copper (including the fins), with gold plating for increased dissipation.When in operation, this fella is not only very effective at killing the heat, but it’s also quite surprisingly quiet. On Chernobyl at the usual 80 watts, in an ambient room temperature of 21°C, the GT-1000 maxed out at 41C. A very impressive result, albeit for a fairly large and weighty heatsink.It’s a little pricey compared to some, but if you’re still afraid of water, this cooler will certainly suck out the heat and give you a little more headroom for overclocking goodness. A good air cooling solution.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012