Performance:
Let's get to the bottom line and see what these puppies will do under some stress. I didn't use the provided thermal compounds because I wanted both heatsinks to be on the same playing field. Again, I decided to use CoolingStore's Arctic Silver thermal compound as my "official thermal compound" for this review. I used the thermal sensor on the motherboard to measure the CPU core temp and Motherboard Monitor v4.17 to get my temperature readings for the CPU core and motherboard temps. I also have a Radio Shack digital thermometer to measure room and ambient case temps. To get "full CPU load" temperatures I ran RC5 in the background while I played some Quake 3 Arena for 30 minutes and took the reading immediately afterwards. I repeated this twice and averaged the results for each test scenario.
Test Rig Breakdown
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Component |
Brand/Speed/Type |
Supplied By |
|
CPU |
Intel Celeron 2 566 |
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|
Thermal Compound |
Arctic Silver
Small Contact Area |
|
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Motherboard |
Asus P3V4X |
|
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Memory |
384megs Kingmax TinyBGA PC133 CAS3 |
|
|
Video Card |
Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 GTS 32meg
5.25 Nvidia Detonators |
|
|
Hard Disk |
Western Digital Expert 27.3gig UDMA 66 7200rpm |
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Operating System |
Microsoft Windows Millennium OEM |
Results
|
Heatsink |
Ambient Case Temp |
Ambient Room Temp |
Mobo Temp |
CPU
IdleTemp |
CPU Under Load Temp |
Highest Clock Speed |
|
Stock Intel HS/ Fan |
27.4º C 81.3º F |
26.6º C 79.9º F |
27º C 80.6º F |
39º C 102.2º F |
43º C 109.4º F |
807mhz 95FSB 1.75v |
|
Thermal Take Golden Orb |
27º C 80.6º F |
26.4º C 79.5º F |
27º C 80.6º F |
34º C 93.2º F |
36º C 96.8º F |
850mhz 100FSB 1.75v |
|
Global Win FOP32 |
27.2º C 81º F |
26.6º C 79.9º F |
27º C 80.6º F |
33º C 91.4º F |
36º C 96.8º F |
850mhz 100FSB 1.75v |