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When it comes to air cooling it doesn't get any bigger than this, or annoying to install.
This is the biggest, coolest, best CPU heatsink you can buy. You just need 3 or 4 hands to install it and a whole lot of patience. Oh, and you need a lot of room in your computer case. It works best with the 12cm Silent Wheel Fan, also by Thermaltake, though that one is actually on a 13cm frame. This means in a standard ATX case you may not have enough room for both in the intended configuration. On my P4 3.4ghz C Northwood processor there's barely the room for just the Sonic Tower 4-in-1 heatsink/cooler itself. I assumed the extra inch or so of depth the fan takes up would be fine at the rear of the case. A CPU air cooling solution is limited by the internal temperature of the computer case. You obviously cannot get a cooler CPU than the system environment itself. When in doubt, take the case cover off. My case cover is off and my case fans are removed. But even so, that extra 1 cm of diameter on the Silent Wheel fan housing caused a space conflict with the power supply. I ended up with the fan attachment brackets pushed onto the floor-side of the Sonic Tower aluminum sink by force alone without any screws, since there aren't any except on the forward and back ends. The aluminum fins are very resilient and with a little bending everything is nice and snug. I think even if I dropped the case, while everything else would break, these two would still stay stuck together as I've got them. I'm not totally sure if anyone needs the fan from a thermal standpoint since I can currently touch the copper pipe ends sticking out of the fins on top and they're completely cool. But since you need some kind of fan or jumper plugged into most CPU fan input pins on your motherboard and it makes almost zero sound, it certainly can't hurt to have the Silent Wheel Fan. My computer went from a total dB volume ranging from quiet to a hurricane with the Spark 7+ to now quiet all the time. The GPU Fan (x800xt AIW...quieter than NVIDIAs), hard drives (Maxtor video editing ATA133's), and the power supply (a fairly quiet Rhycom 450W) are all louder than my cpu heatsink/fan combo. The new fridge in the kitchen makes more apparent noise from 15 ft away in the other room. No water cooling. No phased gas cooling. I can guarantee you this CPU air cooling setup is quieter and cheaper than anything exotic you can buy. You do need a great deal of patience and ingenuity to install it, but the results were worth the sore neck...that is, assuming I can move my neck in the morning. <
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Silent & Cool
If you're going to use this heatsink without an attached fan, then make sure your case doesn't have poor airflow, as it relies on SOMETHING to move air through the fins. I'm using this heatsink on an Anthlon 64 4000+ in a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case. The main airflow in the case is a 120mm fan in front and another in the back, as well as an 80mm on the side door. These are more than adequate to keep air flowing through the heatsink without having to attach an optional 120mm fan to it. The CPU idle temp is in the low 30's and under heavy load (like hours of playing BF2) the temp only gets up to the low 40's...and this is with an nVidia 7800GTX in the case as well! <
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Not impressed with it
I have an AMD 64 3000+ on an Asus K8VSEDX board and the chip had a retail fan and heatsink that came with it. The temp was around 51C with the manufacturer's fan. So now here comes the Thermaltakes sonic tower heat sink. <
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>First thing you notice is that the heatsink is HUGE (I did know before hand yet I still wasn't prepared) but was a straight forward install. Just had a hard time screwing the two screws in because of tight space. I didn't install any optional fan on the heatsink. Rebooted the box and watched the temp and it stabilized around 55C. So definitely its NOT cooler but the passive cooling eliminated some noise from my box. Now all I hear is my video card's fan going crazy. <
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> CPU 55C