The Alpenföhn Olymp is an oversized asymmetric twin-tower cooler made of aluminum with a nickel-plated copper base as well as six U-shaped 6-mm nickel-plated heat-pipes. The heatsink is 165x151x150mm in size and weighs 1.2 kilograms (without fans); it requires a special mounting mechanism with custom retention plates and will not fit into many small form-factor PC cases (especially with fans installed). The sides of the fins of the heatsink are slightly bent in order to make the most of their surface area and to optimize airflow.
1.2KG Is pretty massive but doesn't come close to the 1.9KG all copper 120 TRUE. I had that thing and every time I cleaned it I was scared it would fall off, breaking a chunk of my board with it.
Well, I think the idea is that it can handle 260w load while keeping a CPU within operating spec in either a standard temperature room, or a room with a normal interior temperature, which are not that far apart. Since this is a consumer grade product with a very specific application, these metrics really aren't needed.
Its not an issue regardless, unless you're shipping your rig(you should be securing everything inside then regardless), or unless you're particularly careless with a LAN rig.
How did this big cooler phobia even start? Is there even one case of a properly mounted tower cooler damaging a motherboard?
I regret throwing it away, it worked much better than my old H70, though every time I either banged the case or needed to clean it I was scared it would break off a huge chunk of my board.
msot CPU Coolers with the copper base and limited heat conductivity from heatpipes wont match an AIO at high TDP, there is really no point for big heatsinks nowdays
msot CPU Coolers with the copper base and limited heat conductivity from heatpipes wont match an AIO at high TDP, there is really no point for big heatsinks nowdays
msot CPU Coolers with the copper base and limited heat conductivity from heatpipes wont match an AIO at high TDP, there is really no point for big heatsinks nowdays
Exposed heatsinks radiate(or convect, I dunno which is which to be honest) the heat onto other components which I find to be extremely frustrating. I wish the underlying physics could be dumbed down for the likes of me in a review.
They also contribute to air impedance in a big way. The result usually is more sound pressure just to circumvent the air around the elephant in the room.
No. The mounting system is tested before a company releases it, and if you mount it correctly, it will not harm a motherboard. I've hauled systems with big air coolers vertically mounted many times and never had a problem.
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dBA graphs hardly tell the entire story. How quiet do they get at idle? How low can you keep those fans while maintaining reasonable temperatures?
CLC's always look good in graphs, but in the real world I'll take a big air cooler or a custom loop over a CLC any day.
CLC's are pointless unless you're just buying it for looks. Some people care more about what it looks like in their case window than how it actually performs. (Not that there's anything "wrong" with that, but on a price/performance basis, that's all they're really good for.)
No. The mounting system is tested before a company releases it, and if you mount it correctly, it will not harm a motherboard. I've hauled systems with big air coolers vertically mounted many times and never had a problem.
This.
CLC's are pointless unless you're just buying it for looks. Some people care more about what it looks like in their case window than how it actually performs. (Not that there's anything "wrong" with that, but on a price/performance basis, that's all they're really good for.)
one minor pro to add to CLCs is that when its installed, there's more room to work around in the case and have the option to remove ram at will, which most air coolers will block access to RAM.
one minor pro to add to CLCs is that when its installed, there's more room to work around in the case and have the option to remove ram at will, which most air coolers will block access to RAM.
This was an unexpected benefit I noticed when I purchased the H80 back in the day. I didn't really even think about it until I got it into the case and realized that I can actually do things inside of the case without having to remove the heatsink or risk slicing my damn hands up trying to work with it still in place.
CLC's are pointless unless you're just buying it for looks. Some people care more about what it looks like in their case window than how it actually performs. (Not that there's anything "wrong" with that, but on a price/performance basis, that's all they're really good for.)
1. Who wants to dump the heat of an overclocked CPU into their case instead of exhausting it? You can also turn a fan 180 degrees to intake air. A fan can draw in air from a few inches away...even if the fan is not mounted on the rear of the case. So you can STILL intake cool air from outside of the case. Have you used a tower HSF before?
2. Who works around their CPU after it has been installed? There is plenty of clearance on most HSFs to access the GPU just fine.
You also skipped the fact the HSFs don't have pumps to fail
You also skipped the fact HSFs can't leak all over your components
The coolant in my old H80 almost completely evaporated. Load temps were in the 90s where the CPU would throttle instantly.
A tower HSF is going to far outlast CLCs.
Many people favor reliability and factor in risk of component damage when choosing a cooler. Tower HSFs don't leak or have pumps that fail, nor will the liquid in the pipes evaporate.
You seem quite biased and seem to have an agenda here or you don't understand how CLCs work. I have an H80i GT NIB that I'm going to put on the marketplace because this Megahalem black replaced it. I had enough problems with my old H80. Luckily Corsair is an awesome company that stands behind their products so the warranty process was painless, but I"m not going through that again.
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