40+ heatsinks compared

[jmke]

Completed my HSF comparo test on both AMD and Intel platforms; massive list of coolers, plenty of data to chew through
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&number=1&artpage=2179&articID=519

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1523/amdandintelheatsinkrounmv0.jpg

if you think it's worthy of sharing please consider a digg
http://digg.com/hardware/AMD_and_Intel_Heatsink_Roundup_2006

Tested on AMD:


# AMD Stock Cooling
# AMD 4 Heat pipe Stock cooling

# Aerocool Dominator
# Arctic Cooling Alpine 64
# Arctic Cooling Freezer 64
# Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
# Asus Silent Square
# Asus X-Mars
# Coolermaster Susurro
# MACS Triumph TEC
# Noctua NH-U 12
# Noctua NH-U 9
# Sharkoon Red Shock
# Silverstone NT02
# Silverstone NT06
# Scythe Infinity
# Scythe Katana CU
# Scythe Mine
# Scythe NCU-2000
# Scythe Ninja
# Scythe Samurai Z
# Scythe Shogun
# Spire DiamondCool II
# Spire VertiCool II
# Thermalright XP-90C
# Thermalright XP-90
# Thermalright XP-120
# Thermalright HR-01
# Thermalright SI-120
# Thermalright Ultra-90
# Thermalright Ultra-120
# Thermaltake Big Typhoon
# Thermaltake Mini Typhoon
# Titan Tower TTC-NK32TZ
# TTIC NPH
# Tuniq Tower 120
# Zalman CNPS9500CU

Tested on Intel:

# Intel Aluminum Heatsink
# Coolermaster Eclipse
# Coolermaster Mars
# Coolermaster Hyper TX
# Scythe Ninja
# Titan Amanda TEC
# TTIC BIG
# Zalman CNPS9700LED

as usual, I'm looking for constructive comments and criticisms on the testing methods, charts and what not, to improve on for the next test, thank you in advance for your thoughts

 

[imported_RedStar]

and add this review of the top coolers:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/zalman-scythe_13.html

the madshrimps one ...has made me lean towards the zalman 9700 and thats how i found the above link.

 

[zagood]

As always, great article, and good work on the tests.

For fun, might want to link the images of heatsinks on the first page to the actual review page for each cooler. Looks like it's just one big image, so either map the links or split into 36 images.

-z

 

[JEDIYoda]

each review of the heatsinks does have as picture of the heatsink that being reviewed....perhaps you just looked at the first page..lol