New Nexus FLC-3000 CPU cooler - 775 and 1366 compatible

lodestar · Post by **lodestar** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:29 am

See

http://www.nexustek.nl/NXS-FLC-3000_sil ... _angle.htm

Seems a slightly eccentric design, but is the first cooler I've seen for Intel Core i7 CPUs.

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:39 am

errr.... right.... weird... VERY weird...
Can anyone think of a god reason for the angle of the sink ? Maybe to reduce air recycling inside the case... better idea anyone ?

tehfire · Post by **tehfire** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:31 am

Perhaps to better cool VRMs, while still allowing relatively unobstructed airflow? Although I'm pretty sure the past has shown that a straight-down cooler doesn't suffer from much backpressure...

Jenspm · Post by **Jenspm** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:31 am

According to Nexus themselves, the angle creates "a perfect flow over the motherboard."

If we take a look at the upcoming Nehalem motherboards (this is the only one I've seen), it looks like it should bring some more air over the Northbridge.

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:26 am

I wonder what makes it any different to the XiR-2300, except for the angle.

lodestar · Post by **lodestar** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:39 am

Apart from the angle, only the added socket 1366 (Core i7) compatability I guess, and that has been achieved in a fairly simple fashion, see

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15443

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:50 am

Well except for the obvious S1366 compatibility I just wondered what that angle actually does compared to the older model.
Maybe it's for getting better airflow?

Scoop · Post by **Scoop** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:51 am

It's neither a top-down cooler nor a tower cooler. It won't cool the CPU as well as a tower and it won't have as wide of a range as top-down cooler for components around the socket. It looks like a tilted BTF-90 and it looks nice, and I'd bet that's exactly why it is as it is.

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:09 pm

FLR-3000

XiR-2300:

EsaT · Post by **EsaT** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:58 am

92mm fan... which probably leaks big part of airflow elsewhere than toward heatsink...
Now why I'm not expecting any serious performance?

lodestar wrote:Seems a slightly eccentric design, but is the first cooler I've seen for Intel Core i7 CPUs.

Thermalright will release LGA1366 mounting kit when Nehalem is released and also Noctua will have mounting parts available then.

And here's some shots of Nehalem boards:
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Intel_X ... /5827.html
CPU nearly dropping "over the board" in some... they must be betting on users having big cases for having enough space for big heatsinks.

http://www.awardfabrik.de/forum/showthread.php?t=4468
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9979/giga ... index.html
http://www.syndrome-oc.net/archives.php?id=4184
(props to Gigabyte for not using PCIe x1 "hard limited" slots)

Strid · Post by **Strid** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:10 am

EsaT wrote:92mm fan... which probably leaks big part of airflow elsewhere than toward heatsink...
Now why I'm not expecting any serious performance?

Well, tune it to its maximum of 2500 RPM and it's probably decent. Like it's noise probably.

New Nexus FLC-3000 CPU cooler - 775 and 1366 compatible

New Nexus FLC-3000 CPU cooler - 775 and 1366 compatible

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