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Cooler Master The fan and grill are held in place by four screws which attach to the heatsink making it easy to take off and replace if you want. Looking down at the heatsink from above, you can see that the cooling fins are separated into 2 sides provided plenty of room for airflow, 36 fins on each side for a total of 72.
The shot from the side shows how thin these cooling fins really are. The base is somewhat thicker than a lot of other pure copper coolers which should allow for greater heat dissipation. A quick picture on the other side shows where Cooler Master stamped their name on the sink.
Let's take a quick look at the lap job on the bottom before we get to the good stuff. As you can clearly see the lap job is superb. There is absolutely no reason to try and improve on what Cooler Master has done here.
And while we're here, also take note that they have used all 3 lugs for the clip which makes put this puppy on a lot easier in my opinion. Now, on to the testing! Performance Ok, now we need a comparison sink right? I decided to use the Thermalright SK-7 and just to be fair, I popped a Thermaltake Smart Fan II on the SK-7. We'll be running the two sets of tests for each sink, one with the fan speeds set at minimum and one at max. 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 SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro's burn in program for thirty minutes. The reported results are the average of three runs per product. Ambient room temperature was 19.5' Celsius. For a thermal interface I decided to use the stuff supplied by Cooler Master instead of my normal Artic Silver 3. All results are in degrees Celsius. Our standard 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.
Test System
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