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Cooler Master The clipping mechanism is a standard clip style latch but one side of the clip has a Texas sized lever and thumb area. The oversized piece here make installation and removal noticeably easier than their competition.
Installation went rapid and gave us no difficulties in our test board (an EPoX 8K3A.) Another thumbs up to Cooler Master for listening to what we want in a clip. To get a little more insight into the clip being too oversized we also installed it in our of our servers, an AOpen AK77 Plus driven box. Again, no problems with clearances. (The silver braided lines you see below, in case you're interested, are also made by Cooler Master. These are ATA-133 compatible.)
Now this brings us to the heart of the HSC-V62, it's fan. We mentioned it is a variable speed fan above but neglected to note that it has a range of 3100 RPM - 6700 RPM. Below is the Cooler Master graphs on the what temperature levels recorded at the sensor trigger what fan speeds.
You can see the tiny sensor that makes this all happen in the next pic. The sensor is placed in the "dead zone" below the fan motor so it is not simply measuring the inside air temperature of the case. The sensor is also elevated a bit away from any contact with the motor so to avoid any false readings because you fan motor is hot.
Performance
For comparison, we are going to
use our trusty Vantec
CCK-6035. We wanted to test the HSC-V62's regular performance as well as
what it would do with a Delta 60mm fan on board. Also, to show some of how
the HSC-V62 performs over a time frame we recorded temperatures and fan speeds
at intervals. Now our cursory statement…
No two systems will perform
identically, or for that matter, there will be variations within a single system
to some degree depending on several factors. Hence our results may end up
being a little better or a little worse than the results you may get in your own
box.
All measurements were obtained
by a thermal probe mounted on the top of the silicon of the chip so that the
probe tip touches the CPU core. Our load temperatures were attained by running
the
CPU stability tester program for thirty minutes. The reported results are
the average of three runs per product. Nanotherm Blue thermal goop was used as
our interface material in all tests. Ambient room temperature was 26 degrees
Celsius and at no time did this base temperature deviate more than 0.5
degrees C. Test Bed
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