Performance

Temperatures will be taken at idle 15 min after a fresh boot. Load temperatures will be taken after 30 minutes of running Folding@Home. Temperatures were taken with Motherboard Monitor 5.2.0.0. Room temperature was maintained at a steady 71F for testing. System specs are as follows...

• AMD XP 1600+ AROIA-Y
• Epox 8K3A+
• 512 Megs of Samsung Pc2700
• Western Digtial SE 120 Gig
• ATI Radeon 8500
• Hercules GTXP
• Arctic Alumina thermal compound

As most probably know, but for those of you who don't, the 8K3A+ reads the temps of the AMD XP's from the internal thermistor on the CPU itself and not the socket thermistor. Because of this the temps may seem a little on the high side. But its nothing to worry about. It is a more accurate way to read the temps than by reading from behind the chip as done on most pre-kt333 boards.

I'm pretty happy with the results that I seen. A full load overclock temp of 145F at 1.9 GHz @ 2.05V's. My SLK800 with a 75CFM fan is only 5 degree's cooler so this is doing pretty darn good if you ask me. Its default temps are very cool and even with moderate overclocking it does very well.

Overall it seems that Vantec has gone above and beyond with this cooler. Its very cool looking with the TMD fan on it. Its quiet and cools damn good! What more could you ask for? Only small downfall it has is that its a little bit wide so it makes it tricky to install on certain motherboards. But its still no where as difficult to install as the Volcano 9 is which is roughly the same size.

A special thanks goes out to the guys at Crazy PC for sending us this fine cooler! If you would like to purchase one for yourself they are here and only pack a price of $26.95 which is about the cheapest I have found this cooler going for!

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