I tested this heatsink with the following fans:. H2O Static Pressure. DC12B5AP x 25 58 26 0. I prefer wire clips or a fan frame for holding the fans securely. The testing methodology used is the same as I used with my previous reviews :. All energy saving features of the motherboard and processor were turned off to keep it from down clocking the processor speed and vcore.
All fan control functions were turned off in bios to keep the fans at maximum speed. For processor temperature monitoring purposes, I am using Real Temp 3. The Fluke records the maximum, minimum and average temps during the run at 1 second intervals.
At the end of the test run, I logged the maximum, minimum and average temperature. Each fan configuration was tested with three remounts of the heatsink, and the lowest average temperature run recorded, to minimize any problems between mount to mount installations. As you can see from the above chart, the stock Spire supplied fans give good performance right out of the box. Going with the AP Gentle Typhoon fans actually had a decrease in cooling performance and the S-Flex fans essentially matched the stock fans in cooling performance.
And of those two sets of fans, I could maybe see someone being able to live with the noise of the Delta fans, but the server grade GT fans are just way too noisy and whiny to live with for everyday usage. Now to see how this heatsink stacks up in its stock configuration against other recently reviewed heatsinks, we have the following chart:. You will notice in the above chart that the Spire TherMax Eclipse II sits in the middle group of the above fans in cooling performance.
C RT, the Cogage True Spirit and the Prolimatech Megahalems in my first review I wrote for this website, but my testbed setup had changed significantly since that review. So I have retested those heatsinks on my present testing setup so that I have more high performance coolers to compare with. I will be publishing an update of performance on those three heatsinks in the near future, but those are the temps recorded by myself on the present testbed.
That pulls this heatsink out of the bargain basement category, but below some of the high-end air coolers. Since it is an out-of-the-box solution, you do not have to worry buying fans for it either. You can do a little better for your money in some cases, but you can also do quite a bit worse too.
This heatsink comes with with mounting hardware to mount to any modern Intel socket and it also will mount to AMD systems from K8 onwards. For you folks still running an old socket or socket system that needs a new heatsink, this one is one of the few choices in town for cooling your older AMD system. The AMD mounting systems are a bit of a pain to install and you will need the motherboard outside of the case to mount the cooler, but the cooler feels quite secure when mounted. On the Intel side, Spire could improve the spring retention setup.
The springs hang up on the metal mount and bind, making it hard to turn the tension nuts and also bending the springs. The 6 fender washers did help a lot though and probably give just a little more clamping pressure. But I think the biggest change they should make with this heatsink is either narrowing the spacing between the heatpipes if they want to keep this as a HDT design or redesign the base to have a full copper baseplate on it in order to help distribute heat to the outer two heatpipes.
I feel that if this was done, performance would jump from the middle of the pack to one of the top choices for cooling. In closing, I would again like to thank Spire for providing us this heatsink for testing and we appreciate you bearing with us during the delay. If you guys would put a little more design work into the base and the mounting system, you would have a killer cooling solution here.
C, True Spirit and Megahalems soon. The purpose of the test is to see if lapping the heatsink will give any performance improvement. Since I already have a Megahalems in one of my secondary rigs, I found the idea interesting. The testing procedure will be simple. For each step, I will do three mounts and run the test app three times, then average the results. Today, be quiet! To receive this upgrade kit, you simply need to provide proof of purchase for one of the listed be quiet!
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Back side of box. Left side. Right side. Overall Look at Heatsink. Note dimples stamped into fins. HDT base. The heatsink has one common clip attached to the base which connects in a tool free manner on all platforms.
In other words, you don't need to remove the board from the system to install the heatsink. Each bracket uses a modified version of the standard Intel push-to-click mechanism, which is convenient when used with light-weight CPU coolers. An illustrated manual provides guidance, and a PCI bracket fan speed controller are also provided.
Base Finish and Flatness Flipping a heatsink over to inspect the business end is often a simple indicator of overall cooler quality. More practically speaking, a heatsink is in many ways only as effective as the contact it makes with the processor - the flatter and smoother the better.
Base finish is one of the criteria that Frostytech measure in the course of evaluating heatsinks, and it involves two distinct aspects. Surface Finish is the first; this is calculated with the aid of Surface Roughness Comparator that has a cross section of common machine surface finishes and their numerical surface roughness equivalents in microinches.
The second is Surface Flatness. This is tested with an engineers straight edge or proven flat surface, in two axis. The manufacturer has purposefully given the surface a distinctive ridged texture. The base is perfectly flat in both axis.
FrostyTech's Test Methodologies are outlined in detail here if you care to know what equipment is used, and the parameters under which the tests are conducted.
Now let's move forward and take a closer look at this heatsink, its acoustic characteristics, and of course its performance in the thermal tests! Table of Contents:.
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