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Date 2002-10-30
Provider: Powercooler
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie
There is alot of different CPU coolers out on the market. This time I will review PCH161S+TSAS from Powercooler.
I have tested this product against Thermaltake Volcano 6 Cu.
Specs:
Fan: 70×70×20 mm Double blade
Fan¡qWorldwide Patents¡r
Rated Voltage: 12 VDC
Rated Current : 0.58 A
Speed: 6800 RPM
Max Air Flow: 39.65 CFM
Max Air Pressure: 0.361 Inch H2O
Noise: 48.57 dBA
Input Power : 6.96 W
Bearing type : Ball Bearing
Heat Sink Dimension: 62 × 70 × 40mm
Weight: 510 grams
Thermal Resistor: Socket 0.45 °C/W
P4-478: 0.285 °C/W
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Application
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In
support of Mhz
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P4(478pin)
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Up
to 3.0Ghz (simulating test) |
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INTEL: |
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Northwood
up to 3.0Ghz and higher |
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Socket
462
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Athlon
XP 2200+ and higher |
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370 |
Sockrt
370 up to 1.4Ghz and higher |
Date 2002-11-02
Provider: Tweakmonster
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie
Heatsinks for a video card- Yeah it's true I've done this 1 time before and it made some difference. Now let's try out these
high quality ones from Tweakmonster. Other articles has given these puppies really good grades. So why do you need these?
Because when you overclock the memory on the video card gets really hot and that's what stops you from continuing to overclock so these are
made to prevent that from happening :) but of course these get hot after awhile to. Well let's get this party going.
Installation
What do you need?
Well I used Artic Thermal Adhensive and some Artic Silver 2 so the Thermal Adhesive won't stick on to hard if I want to remove the heatsinks someday :)
Nicely packed little babys- But I must say they're pretty heavy :)
This is what I used to glue the heatsinks on to the card.
Shiny little suckers? Good quality I must admit
This is the DFI Xabre card which I reviewed awhile back you can find it in the Review section, really nice card! But the problem was I only got to 575 with the memory when I tried overclocking. And that's because it doesn't have any heatsinks I think
Just mix the Thermal Adhesive and glue it on the corners so you have a chance to remove the heatsinks if needed.
Finally in place- Now leave it to dry for like 4 hours to be on the safe side. That's what I did and now I can lift the card holding one heatsink.
Overclock Testing
Well without any heatsinks I got the memory up to 275mhz but with the heatsinks installed I got up to 285 mhz
That's a pretty good increase which gave me 6931 points in 3dmark2001SE which is the same as my Geforce 3 TI 200 not clocked
so that's is really good for a budget card like the Xabre 400.
Conclusion
FOr the price of around 25$ I would say that's a fairly high price, but if you want to be an overlocker you've got to have these! ;)
A 10 mhz increase on the memory makes these really worth the money. Some I would say to buy another card instead, but overlockers prefer
to push out the last drop of their cards and that's what makes this so fun :)
I wish I could have tried the heatsinks on a Geforce card but I didnt have any around so sorry- Just live with it :)
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+ Good cooling performance
+ Good quality
+ Nicely packed and not sratched
- Well if there is something to complain about they should send small tubes of Thermal Adhesive because everyone doesn't have that at home :)
All in all a really good buy which gets a 5 out 5 and a R&B recomendation!
 
Thank you Tweakmonster for making this review possible
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