Overclockers.com reviews the GOD of P4 Heatsinks

[Omega65]

Overclockers.com (http://www.overclockers.com/articles1043/): The good guys at Thermalright were nice enough to send an engineering sample of their 120mm P4 heatpipe heatsink for a test spin.

Die Simulator results place Thermalright's 120mm P4 Heatpipe in the topmost rank of P4 heatsinks tested to date (Heatsink Ranking (http://www.overclockers.com/articles373)).

Thermalright's 120mm P4 Heatpipe is well made and an excellent choice for low noise P4 cooling. Mating Thermalright's Heatpipe with a variable speed fan might be the preferred approach for the power user looking for peak performance followed by a quiet night's sleep. Prescott users might want to consider this heatsink for effective cooling.
WOW! Finally a 120mm Heatsink!

Source: Overclockers.com (http://www.overclockers.com/articles1043/)

[Gobbles]

So the radiator on my first car, an 81 toyota Corolla, was almost that size...


Gobbles

[TheBaron]

im just going to turn my house into a gigantic heatpipe. im sure it'd be about the same thing

[Shorty]

Holy mother of...

That's a bloody monster :eek:


Still, suppose you have to have something like that when you are attempting to cool 105w+ of bloated processor ( <s>prescott</s> presHOT )..

[Geeky1]

*grumbles about how the Prescott doesn't run all that hot*

[Gargoyle]

That thing is huge. With that overhang to the topside of the processor, it may not fit in some mini-tower cases.

[Omega65]

*grumbles about how the Prescott doesn't run all that hot*

Switch back to the Intel Retail heatsink from that monster cooler you have then ;D ;D

[Geeky1]

I haven't put that monster cooler on it yet. I'm too lazy to bolt it onto a board that's being sold as soon as I get around to it. The IC7-G is being dumped in favor of an ASUS P4C-800 Deluxe or a DFI i875 board.
With the Intel retail heatsink, a 2.8E @ 3.5GHz, running two instances of F@H, never goes over 60*C. The board claims it runs at 75*C+, but the actual temperature, measured at the CPU's IHS by a digidoc5, is like 55*C.

[SimGuy]

One of those with a 200 CFM Delta 120mm EHE fan strapped to it would be the ultimate in air cooling.

I think with that many CFM and the static pressure of that fan, it would be able to keep those Prescott's nice and cool. It's still no water or phase change, but it would be damned good (and damned loud) air cooling :)