SPIRE VERTICOOL II COOLER - SPIRE VERTI COOL 2 PERFORMANCE TEST TEMP
Posted:2006-04-28 By hardware review Number of View:7179
SPIRE VERTICOOL II COOLER - SPIRE VERTI COOL 2 PERFORMANCE TEST TEMP By :hardware review Posted:2006-04-28 xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source Spire VertiCool II Cooler - Spire Verti Cool 2 performance test temp Testbed and Methods For Spire Verti 2 There are universal (for several processor types) and specialized (either for Intel or for AMD CPUs) cooler models in this review. This made me use two test platforms. Socket 775 Socket 939 Processor Intel Pentium 4 521 (2.8 GHz) AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+ (2.0 GHz) Mainboard Asus P5WD2 Premium, BIOS 0606 Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI, BIOS 20 Memory Corsair TWIN2X1024-8000UL Corsair TWIN1024-4400C25 Thermal paste Zalman PSU SilverStone Zeus ST65ZF (650W)   The platforms were placed in a thermal chamber with a constant temperature of 30°C. The processors were heated up by the S&M utility at 100% load. The CPU temperature was controlled via SpeedFan; the RM Clock Utility was used to make sure there was no thermal throttling. The coolers were all tested at the maximum fan speed. The Tuniq Tower 120 cooler was included for the comparison’s sake as a reference product . It has got its title of a super-cooler by coping with an Intel Pentium 4 521 overclocked to 4.13GHz at 1.375V voltage and with an AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+ overclocked to 2.8GHz at 1.45V voltage. Unfortunately, none of the coolers included in this review can do anything like that. So how will we compare them? This time I’m going to take frequency as the parameter to base our comparison upon. The higher the frequency the tested cooler allows overclocking a processor to, the better the cooler is. The frequency being the same, other factors should be considered, like temperature, noise, ease of installation, etc. The technical characteristics of the coolers are taken from the manufacturers’ websites with differences specifically mentioned where necessary. And I’m going to begin with the Spire coolers. Spire VertiCool II The coolers from Spire come in standard packages that only differ in size and the model name on the sticker Specification Spire SP601B3 VertiCool II Socket Socket 754 / 940 / 775 / 939 Compatibility Any contemporary processors from Intel and AMD Heatsink dimensions 95 x 65 x 100 mm (L x W x H) Detailed description Blue transparent fan (glows in UV light) two heatpipes 45 aluminum plates copper sole Fan 80 x 25 mm Fan rotation speed 2300 RPM +/-10% MTBF 50 000 h Bearings Frictionless bearing Current 0.13 A Power 1.56 W Air flow 25.78 CFM Noise 19 dBA Thermal resistance 0.21 (AMD) and 0.23 (INTEL) o C/W The cooler represents the typical tower-like design: Two heat pipes take heat off the copper base: The base is superbly polished: The cooler comes with an LGA755 fastener already attached so you only have to screw it to the back-plate, but you also get everything necessary to use the cooler with an AMD K8 processor (another back-plate and fastener). The Spire VertiCool II kept our Intel Pentium 4 521 processor running until a FSB frequency of 280MHz. The resulting CPU frequency was 3.93MHz. The CPU temperature was fluctuating from 67.5 to 70°C which is a very good result; the fan speed was about 2200rpm. I must confess I had troubles trying to switch to another platform. It should have been easy as you are only supposed to replace the fastener by undoing one small screw   As you see, the fan is right above the screw head and you have to remove the fan to tighten the screw. So, I eventually installed the Spire VertiCool II on an AMD processor, but that was a real trouble indeed. The Spire VertiCool II did well on our AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+, too. It allowed me to overclock the CPU to 2.7GHz at 1.4V voltage. The CPU temperature was fluctuating within a range of 61-63°C.   xtreview is your : Video card - cpu - memory - Hard drive - power supply unit source we would be happy to answer for your question . if you have suggestion or comment regarding this review our support would be glad to help just join our forum and ask u will get the best answer to discuss check our forum section :-) RATE THIS REVIEW 1 2 3 4 5    / 5   View Stat

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