TTIC NPH-K8-2 Cooler

As you can see, the fins are constructed of thin aluminum.  There is a copper “Heat Column”  25mm thick, spanning upwards 100mm through the center of the 39 aluminum fins.  The fins aren’t totally square, measuring around 70mm on their long side, and 60mm wide.  The fans mountings are set up to blow air across the longer side of the fins for maximum heat dissipation.

There is fan mounting on both sides of the heat sink, so you could theoretically move a lot of air across this baby just by attaching a second 80mm fan to it.  Although there were no fans included, the dual mounting, in my opinion, makes up for the lack of it.  Not only that, you get to choose any standard 80mm fan that fits your needs.

The contact point with the processor isn’t highly polished.  The reflection isn’t clear, to say the least.  We’re definitely going to need a good thermal coating.  There weren't any imperfections we could notice outside of the average lapping job.

Let’s install this baby and see how it goes!

Test Bed

• AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 754)

• MSI K8T Neo Mainboard

• (2) 256 mb PC3200 DDR RAM

• (2) Western Digital 80gb HDD

• ATI Radeon 9600 XT

• Generic DVD-ROM drive

• Generic CD-RW drive

• Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 and all updates installed

Installation

First things first, I removed the old heat sink, and the processor.  Using a cotton swab and some isopropyl alcohol, I removed all the old thermal grease from the processor and the old heat sink.  I then applied a thin layer of Arctic Alumina to the processor, and spread it evenly with a razor blade.  I removed the mounting for the previous (stock) heat sink from the board.

I’d like to point out, that to install this sink, there is no need to replace the back-plate as it fits the stock mounts fine.  Anyway, this installation did not require the motherboard to be removed.  This was a BIG plus, in my book.

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