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Evil XP2400
OG EVIL XP
Registered: August 2004
Posts: 4675
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $29.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Cheap, All Copper, High CFM fan, Fan Controller
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LOUD
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What can I say... Great HSF.
I didnt have any complaints at all, 2 fan controllers, temp probe.
This kept my temps around 34-39 Idle (in FL\'s summer) with my XPM2400 overclocked to 2.54ghz.
Only downside is that is as loud as an airplane @ full speed. But who cares about that, thats what the fan controller is for  .
I give it 2 thumbs up, anyone on a budget should look at this HSF. I dont think you can get anything better for 25-30 dollars .
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Jonesey
1.7ghz
Registered: April 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 310
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Great cooling Capability
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Very Very Noisey
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Great Heatsink, didn\'t need lapping at all, It made great contact with the cpu die.
The fan, Brilliant Very Loud when on full, but it really cools the processor down. |Mine runs 34 Idle and 40 Load, With it overclocked!!!!
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Anklebiter
733mhz
Registered: December 2004
Location: Toledo, Ohio
Posts: 199
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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high CFM, all copper block
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Cons:
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Loud @ full speed, difficult to install, temp sensor runs RPM too high
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One of my only real problems with this heatsink is the speed / temperature settings.
If running the automatic speed set by CPU temp option, the fan will run 2200 at 20C, and 5500 at 50C. Not many AMD CPUs run at 20C, causing the fan to almost constantly run at close to maximum speed.
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Kittani
3.5ghz
Registered: January 2005
Location: Castle Rock, CO
Posts: 714
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $35.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Great cooling for the cash.
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Cons:
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Loud at full tilt.
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Without repeating too much of what the others say I will say this... great fan... best I\'ve ever had. I never have temp problems with it and short of a huge tower cooler or liquid cooling you\'d be hard pressed to get better for an XP 3X00+ CPU. I don\'t even need the temp sensor. I just turn it low when idle and crank it up when rendering... sometimes I forget to turn it up and I still get no problems. Under load with minimum RPM set I still don;t see the temps get above 48c... pretty good IMHO
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Firewurx
333mhz
Registered: March 2005
Location: Hoorn, NH
Posts: 49
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Great cooler
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Cons:
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Noise
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I won\'t repeat what everybody else have said...but it\'s a great cooler. Lot\'s of copper.....but also lots of noise...
Personally I\'am thinking of replacing the fan.....but no idea with what yet...
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ENTERPRISE
ETERNAL SUNSHINE
Registered: October 2004
Location: Gravenhurst,UK
Posts: 38262
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Full copper heatsink Massive CFM and has a Fan controller.
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Cons:
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At full speed is rather loud
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Well what can i say....WOW This CPU cooler is awesome, I upgraded from a Thermaltake volcanoe 7 to this product and there is a huge diffference i was at lik 50 idle and 60-65 load at some points and it was worrying so i saw this baby in a shop and i thought what the hell ill just buy it ...and i didnt regret it becuase i now get idle tems of 35-40 and even on load only goes about 5 degrees higher. Whats soo great about this product would be that the heatsink is pure 100 percent copper with lots of tiny fins which disperse heat quicker and more efficiently also with the huge fan that pumps out 73 cfm which really does make the overall difference. I would reccomend this product too anyone who is looking for some good air cooling.
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jrabb1920
4.0ghz
Registered: May 2005
Location: Tucson, Az.
Posts: 5514
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Review Date:
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $35.00
| Rating: 6
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Pros:
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Affordable
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Cons:
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Not for serious overclockers
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Affordable for someone on a budget, cools good for mild overclocking, loud as an airplane. Good for the price.
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CanadaGradeEh
2.4ghz
Registered: November 2005
Location: BC, Canada..... Eh
Posts: 436
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $45.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Great cooling solution for the price, fan controllers, temperature probe option, pretty quiet under 3500 RPM (medium setting), comparitively small for it's price and result.
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Quite loud if you set it to run faster than 3500 RPM.
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MY PROBLEM: At the moment I'm running an AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton. Now, I've been lucky enough to acquire an UNLOCKED Barton, so I thought to myself 'I believe some overclocking shinnanigans are in store'. But what am I to do with such high temperatures? Everyone knows the Bartons are a very hot-running processor. At stock speeds (166 MHz x 11) I was running at 50' celcius, IDLE. With a mere 200 MHz overclock to be running at 2 GHz I was getting up to 55' Celcius idle and 63' Celcius load temperature! NOT ACCEPTABLE!
THE PRODUCT (And my solution): So I started to do my homework. I researched and looked through a number of heatsink and cooling solutions for socket A chips, but the one that caught my eye was the ThermalTake Extreme Volcano 12. It may be a bit expensive as far as a heatsink and fan goes, but it doesn't get any where near the prices of some of the newer technology cooling solutions. Let me say right now, that for $45 Canadian funds, this thing kicks ass!
The Extreme Volcano 12 comes with two fan controllers: one you can mount in your free floppy bay for easy access, and one you can mount in a free PCI opening at the back of your computer. This product also comes with a temperature probe that you can stick between your heatsink and CPU incase you want the option of having the fan automatically adjust it's speed depending on your temperatures. Personally, I use the front bay fan controller for the easy access, and because I like the option of turning it all the way down at night when I want complete silence.
For those of you who like to manually adjust the fan speed: this fan has the option to manually adjust the RPM from a minimum setting of 2200 RPM and a maximum setting of 5500 RPM. I usually run around 3500-3800 RPM because it provides pretty good working temperatures without too much noise. However, if I'm going to be cranking up my volume while wearing my headphones, or I'm doing something that's very processor intensive, I'll usually crank the fan to maximum speed. I try to stay away from using too high of a setting though because it's very loud. Lowest setting, on the other hand, is ninja-like stealth silence
After applying some fresh Arctic Silver 5 and installing the heatsink, on it's lowest RPM setting I noticed a small difference in temperature: around 3-5 degrees Celcius. Hmm, not bad, but I was really hoping for more. Well, time to push this baby to it's full potential! I cranked it to around mid settings, which, as I've said, is around 3800 RPM. Wow! I'm down about 10 degrees! HOLY CRAP! So I push it to the full 5500 RPM after a bit of gaming, and I monitor my overall temps. Here are some stats on what I'm running at now compared to before:
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stock cooling, 200 MHz overclock from 1.8 GHz to 2 GHz:
54'Celcius idle, 62-63'Celcius load, silent
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Extreme Volcano 12 at minimum speed - 2200 RPM - using manual control, 400 MHz overclock from 1.8 Ghz to 2.2 GHz:
51'Celcius idle, 59'Celcius load, silent
Extreme Volcano 12 at medium speeds - 3800 RPM. Same overclock:
45'celcius idle, 52-53'Celcius load, not too noisy at all Noticable, but quite tolerable. My preferred setting.
Extreme Volcano 12 at maximum speed - 5500 RPM. Same overclock:
42-43'Celcius idle, 50'Celcius load, vacuum-like noise (well, not nearly that loud, but loud enough to be a disturbance, even with headphones on).
I'm sorry I couldn't provide any readers with a few more detailed test results, but I can't remember the exact temperatures as I overclocked and monitored my OC temps. I don't feel like going back and forth from my BIOS again either :P I haven't used the thermal probe yet either, so I'm sorry I couldn't give a review of that accessory.
To bring this needlessly lengthy story-review to a close, I highly recommend this to socket A users that are on a budget. It may seem like a lot of money now compared to that dinky little $25 heatsink at your local store, but in the end the price is definitely worth it!
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Checkered
333mhz
Registered: February 2006
Location: Thousand Oaks
Posts: 29
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: $35.00
| Rating: 4
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Pros:
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Cheap, Powerful, Works Well, 3 ways to adjust speed.
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Loud and will eventually get annoying
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I got this cooler for my Athlon Barton 3200+ at 1.9v, I knew it will be loud, and at first it wasn’t really a problem, but when playing games or benching it had to be at full speed and was simply unbearable
I won’t recommend this product
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Was into squeezing speed out of my car, but after 8 grand it got expensive.
So now I’m into squeezing speed out of my PC.
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Chosen
4.0ghz
Registered: November 2005
Location: Damariscotta, Maine
Posts: 3871
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $28.00
| Rating: 7
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Pros:
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Good quality. Nice accessories,
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heavy, dosent dissapate heat well.
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This cooler is a "good" alternative to a stock cooler. It does yeild slightl lower temps than stock. But this should not be used for overclocking. The fin placement is horrible, they are way to close togeather!
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ThePenguinator.
3.0ghz
Registered: July 2006
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Posts: 571
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $39.99
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Good cooler, better than stock cooling, good quality of copper
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Loud when in full speed.
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I got this a couple years back for my socket 754 build, I had a 3400+ New Castle stock at 2.40ghz running at 2.60ghz at 41c during load. It wasn't meant for overclocking obviously, the fins while it has a lot, are quite close which isn't great for heat dissipation, and the fan is also quite loud at full speed, which you need to run it at for optimum cooling, but other than that it's a great heatsink.
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CFM): 26.5 CFM at 20ºC~ 72.92 CFM at 55ºC
