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07-09-2008 at 02:05:38 AM

What is more superior? Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer or the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 or Thermalright IFX-14 Heatpipe CPU Heatsink Cooler

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07-09-2008 at 02:49:46 AM

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It would be the Core Contact Freezer. Although they're all good.
http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

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07-09-2008 at 03:16:08 PM

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dagger wrote :

It would be the Core Contact Freezer. Although they're all good.
http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

I can vouch for the core contact freezer. Right off the bat my idle core temps are 30C:30C, a 10C drop on each core. With a 24-hour Orthos blend test (E8400 @3800mhz, 1.275vcore) the highest temps reported during the entire run were 47C:50C (Using realtemp). Average temps during the test were 43-46ish. I bought it from www.coolerguys.com for about $42

Just be sure you have adequate room; I got lucky and was just able to squeeze this cooler into my mobo\case. The installation mechanism is very nice. One thing I was looking for in a cpu cooler is one that didn't attach with those cheesy clips (like the stock intel cooler). The core contact freezer has a black bracket you put around the base of the CPU socket, then you slide pins through each hole and it secures it in there very tightly. I am very impressed with the ease of installation as well as how secure the cooler is mounted. I accidentally had it mounted in the wrong direction the first time around and the pins easily came out and I was able to easily change the orientation of the heatsink.

My my wires are a bit messy. I'm in the process of selecting a SATA dvd-rw as well as getting shorter SATA cables for my hard-drives.

As you can see, the heatsink just clears my RAM and my northbridge heatsink. Installing this in that tight spot was tough because I could barely get my fingers in to attach the clips.

120mm intake fan blowing directly into cpu fan:

CPU fan speed controller is include with the cooler, I leave it cranked @ 100%. Others have reported it is noisy but I can't hear anything over my 120mm intake fan :x

Message edited by RyanS2000 on 07-09-2008 at 04:55:44 PM

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