On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:25:34 GMT, "(E-Mail Removed)" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:
>Heres the one Kony mentioned
>http://www.svc.com/thslsoco.html
>
>Heres the heatpipes
>http://www.pctoyland.com/Merchant2/m...ory_Code=amdp3
>
>Anyone see a review of it? I mean is that mainly for looks or is it
>substantially better than a plain old heatsink?
I've never seen the Thermaltake heatpipe 'sink but from the looks of it,
the size is such that it'd be be quite limiting... if you had a case and
motherboard where it would fit and be easily ducted out the rear of case
or power suppply it might be OK, but generally speaking I'd avoid anything
Thermaltake makes if the goal is maximum cooling... their Silent Boost is
a good value for a quiet median performance 'sink but otherwise,
historically, they've never been competitive. Likely you'd be better off
with a Thermalright SP97 if you wanted a heatpipe cooler, though there are
a lot of newer entries into the heatpipe segment, possibly something else
better now.
I mentioned the SLK-947U largely because it's a very good performance per
$ with the sale, $19 price with (whatever code is needed to get the deal,
I forget the code now but it was in my prior post along with start and end
dates for the deal). I would not recommend that 'sink at > $35, at which
point the bang for the buck goes down.