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Evercool CUC-610 Heatsink Manufacturer:
Evercool by Dean Barker 3/8/2002
Introduction Not every cooling product made is designed to bring the temperatures of molten lava under control. Some products are designed to be replacements for the standard user. What does the home user want? Sound levels in the same ballpark as OEM and reliability in the quality of the product itself. Evercool has come up with a product that hopes to blend some of the world of high performance with the livability of OEM. We wish to extend our thanks to the folks at Evercool for sending a review sample of the CUC-610 over.
The height (or lack of height) of the CUC-610 almost immediately grabs your attention. My first thought was maybe this is designed for a rack server. Measuring only 42mm tall with the fan, makes the CUC-610 one of the lower profile heatsinks we have looked at. The sink itself is constructed of aluminum with a copper inlay very similar, if not exactly like an Alpha. The fin columns are broken into six 6mm sections with gaps of 2mm between each section. So you effectively have six rows of thirty fins each. With the fan removed exposing the fins, their number is impressive (30 * 6 = 180).
The base
measures 6mm think. It is 64 x 64mm square, with a copper inlay that is
centered, measuring 47 x 47mm square. In looking at the Alpha website, you
can see a sink that
The clip is of the more common and standard design with a catch on one end so as to allow you to pry the clip on and off with a screwdriver. Taking the sink off was not significantly better or worse than any other standard clip. The fan used with the CUC-610 is a 60 x 60 x 10mm number that turns at 4,800 RPM. It moves 20.7 CFM at a very low 32dBA. This fan on the sink will never be the reason for any lost sleep because of noise. This fan attaches to the sink through a short purple plastic shroud. The shroud catches on opposing sides of the fins so that it effectively snaps on. The top of the shroud has four holes in it for the mating of the fan mounting screws. Some fan shrouds on other products serves the dual purpose of aiding the fin design in a channeling of the air flow. That is not the case here.
Specifications
Performance For comparison, we are going to use our Vantec CCK-6035. The Vantec CCK makes an excellent comparison heatsink to give you some real world perspective on our test results. 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. OCZ Quicksilver thermal paste was used as our interface material in all tests. Ambient room temperature was 71 degrees Fahrenheit and at no time did this base temperature deviate more than 0.5 degrees F. Test Bed
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