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Gigabyte G-Power Lite Cooler Installation was very standard and the instruction booklet explained it step by step. Unfortunately, I had to remove the motherboard to install the cooler, because the Intel bracket is not the same as the bracket that I had installed for the Thermaltake Blue Orb II. The bracket secured to the mainboard with four small screws, and four plastic washers were included to prevent the screws from making contact with the back of the motherboard. Once the bracket was installed, clamping the cooler on followed the standard procedures. The installation was very uneventful, which as I've said before is a very good thing.
Let's see how the Gigabyte G-Power Lite performs.
Test Bed AOpen i945Ga-PHS NZXT Zero Ultimate Cooling Chassis Performance
Testing will be done using the Thermaltake Blue Orb II as a
comparison solution. Since the Gigabyte G-Power Lite CPU Cooler is a 92mm
cooler and the Blue Orb II is a 120mm, the Blue Orb II is going to be run
at two settings. The first test is at 1200rpm, where the 120mm fan is
nearly silent. The second setting used is 1700rpm, nearly the top speed of
the cooling fan. The smaller G-Power Lite ran at ~ 2000rpm and produced
slightly less noise than the Blue Orb II at it's higher setting -- still not
annoyingly loud.
To test the different options, the system was brought up, and
allowed to idle for 10 minutes. We brought the system under full load for
20 minute intervals using
Stanford's Folding@Home client. The load temperature was taken at the end of these
intervals, and the system was allowed to idle for another 10 minutes. The
idle temperatures were taken at the end of that period. This was done five
times. The high and low scores were discarded and the average was taken
of the remaining three. The ambient room temperature for these tests was
approximately 22.5C.
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