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by Felger Carbon
Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:49 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Reading EU reviews in English
Replies: 4
Views: 1914

Reading EU reviews in English

There are some excellent review sites overseas that publish in, for example, Danish. In reading these posts, apparently many of you are unable to read these. Let me show you how: Enter the Google search engine. At the right, click on "preferences". Be sure you have "search in any language" selected....
by Felger Carbon
Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:47 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: XP-120 et al fan heights FYI
Replies: 4
Views: 2097

XP-120 et al fan heights FYI

The XP-120's fan support is 2.5" (63mm) above its base. The XP-90 (note 1) and 90C is 3.0" above its base. The SI-120 is 3.5". The "Verax Square" (notes 2, 3) top fan support is 4" above its base. It's interesting that in a metric world, engineering is still done in inches. :) A typical mATX chassis...
by Felger Carbon
Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:51 am
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Passive HS misconceptions
Replies: 14
Views: 5508

Re: Passive HS misconceptions

[quote="Live"] HR-01 is not released yet but the only review I’ve seen had a fan on it.[/quote] You wrote that on Dec 15, Thermalright announced the HR-01 on Dec 14. By that time, several on-line stores had HR-01s in stock that they'd sell you for $48-$50. The review you're referring to is the one i...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:57 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: what 120mm fan for prescott 3.2 with xp120/si120
Replies: 6
Views: 2735

[quote="Sizzle"]I think the cost of the Papst takes them out for most people. They have the BEST airflow to noise ratio. Yate Loons have the best price. Nexus falls somewhere in-between I would guess. At this point, the Nexus is the easiest of the three to obtain. First, the Nexus 120mm _is_ a Yate ...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:43 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Passive HS misconceptions
Replies: 14
Views: 5508

Re: Passive HS misconceptions

[/quote] What do mean? The ninja at least comes with fan mounting. HR-01 is not released yet but the only review I’ve seen had a fan on it. Uh, you missed the "tongue in cheek" mode and the fact that I own a Ninja. Yesterday I spent 3 hours trying to get the &#@! wire fan clips to actually work. I f...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:12 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Passive HS misconceptions
Replies: 14
Views: 5508

Passive HS misconceptions

<tongue-in-cheek mode ON> It's politically incorrect to mount a fan on a passive heatsink. The Ninja, NCU-2000, and HR-01 do not include provisions for fan mounting for that reason. The NCU-2005 and TT Sonic Tower do include provisions for mounting fans, but decent people have no truck with such abo...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:07 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: NEW Thermalright TOWER CPU HS, the HR-01
Replies: 32
Views: 11648

Yesterday, Thermalright officially announced the HP-01. There are already several on-line sites with stock on hand. Heatsinkfactory was the first, but sites like Jab-tech, for example, are also selling it. The HR-01 is 160mm high (6.3"), ten mm higher than the TT Sonic Tower monstrosity. Interesting...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:45 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Thermaltake XP-120 vs. XP-90c
Replies: 2
Views: 1799

Both the XP-120 and XP-90C are excellent coolers. The difference is that the 120 uses a 120mm fan and the 90C a 92mm fan. For a given airflow a 120mm fan will be at least 5dBA quieter. However, the XP-120 has interference issues on some mobos. Mine, on an Asus K8S-MX, is mild: the first DIMM socket ...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:38 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Traveling with a Scythe Ninja...?
Replies: 10
Views: 4953

Regarding the SI-120 as an alternative to the Ninja: true, the bare SI-120 is fairly light at 400g. But Thermalright recommends the Panasonic fan, which is 1.5" thick and weighs 270g! And every bit of that 270g is sitting a long long way from the mobo, exerting lotsa torque. The Sunbeamtech 120mm LE...
by Felger Carbon
Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:15 pm
Forum: CPU Cooling
Topic: Disappointed with AC CPU heatsink/fan
Replies: 1
Views: 1372

If the Intel heatsink is using the air vent that comes with TAC 1.1 (Thermally Advantaged Chassis), the Intel HSF will be exhausting the heated air to the outside world. Your AMD HSF dumps the heated air into your chassis so it's natural that the AMD cooler would result in a higher chassis temperatu...