Performance

Now its time for some abusing. The site has to live up to it's nameright! 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 Epox's very own system monitor. Room temperature was maintained at a steady 70F 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. 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.

Well what can I say other than Awesome! The DY1206BH-625 seems to be a very affective cooler even for overclocking. I managed to reach a stable 1.9 Gigs with my 1600+. Granted it did take 2.05v's to reach this but it was only running at a temp of 136F. From my experience with this motherboard that is a decent temp to have when overclocking this extreme. The only thing I can say that I didn't like about this cooler is the NOISE! While this version of the Delta Screamer seems to be a little quieter than other versions it still is well above my tolerable noise level. But as we know many cpu coolers on the market come with these lawnmower loud fans to help get the most from the copper sink. Of course you can get a better heatsink and use a quiet fan, but then it'll usually cost you more.

Another thing that kind of bothers me and I see the trend changing slowly, but its the fact that these high output fans are still coming with the 3 pin molex connector. Most serious overclockers i'm sure have blown out a motherboard header or 2. I know that I have claimed the lives of a couple of them. To me a 4 pin connector for the ground and 12v lead would make more sense. Also the rpm wire could come with a 3 pin molex on it so that we could still monitor the rpm's of the fan. These days I tend to use a 3 pin to 4 pin connector and have a couple spare 3 pin molex connectors that I'll use so I can hook up the rpm lead. To me this would be a big plus if all high output fans started being wired in this fashion.

All things considerd and for the under $20 price, this is a fine choice for a low cost cpu cooling solution. And one that cools well enough for some pc abusing. "Overclocking" for those of you that "don't know". ;) If you can take the noise anyway. The 3-prong clip is another major plus. Just think of how many of those other heavy heatsinks that have just a 1-prong clip. 3-prong clips SHOULD be standard on ANY cpu coolers!

Thanks goes out to Dynatron for sending us this fine specimen of a cooler.