Gigabyte 3D Rocket Pro Cooler

[MediaMan]

It's efficient, impressive and quiet. That's a triple in the heatsink game and Gigabyte's in a good position to steal home.

Read it here (http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=260)

[trigger]

The Rocket airflow directs air out the bottom of the heatsink to be deflected by a cowling to wash over the surrounding components around the CPU socket.
This, theoretically, aids in extending the life of the capacitors around the heatsink. Gigabyte states that a 10 degree Celsius increase in capacitor temperature will cut capacitor lifetime in half.

OK NOW what doesn't seem right? Lets push hot air over components so it can extend the life??? I think it's a bad design(air should be up), To extend life of proceesor AND motherboard

[Geeky1]

You're forgetting that there's little to no airflow across said components in a normal setup. Some airflow is better than no airflow in this case, even if the air is a little warm.

Also, the air shouldn't be very warm; if the heatsink is really good, the air coming off of it will be almost room temperature.

[mmonnin]

Yeah even if the Air coming out is 60C it will most likely be cooler than those MOSFETS.

Very good and eficient cooler.. As for the rocket fins... just remove them.
You will get about 2-3 degrees celsius of the CPU and you will signifiantly reduce noise at high speeds. As for the mosfets and capacitors.. they sill get a good air circulation around them because the cooler also sucks air from underneath (from the base near the CPU) and that ensures air circulation. They will get a little hotter than with the fins on, but not by much.
Personaly I would have like it better if the cooler whould have had aluminium fins all the way. I think it would have been more eficient that way but that whould have been bad for the publicity. The cooler whould have looked doll.

[madmat]

Holy Lazurus Batman! A guest has resurected the dead (thread)!!

[rapture]

I'm gonna follow his lead cause he makes a good point about the fins. The old version didnt have em, I have one cooling an older AXP machine. There is a copper version too that looked nice.