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Now it's time to see if this Novasonic cpu cooler is a real contender or one of the many pretenders out there. It will go head to head with a Thermalright AX-7 and to be sure the testing is fair, I'll use the Novasonic fan also on the AX-7. For testing fan will be ran at full speed.
Shuttle AK-31
T-Bird 1.4
Maxtor 40gb 7200rpm hd
ATI Radeon 7500
256mb Crucial PC2100 DDR
Room temp was at 77 degrees
Arctic Alumina applied to the cpu and using their instructions
Overclocked to 1.6 (11X145):
Beats an AX-7! Now how about that. This from an all aluminum heatsink even. Why is this? The unique "pyramid-extruded base" design along with all that aluminum mostly. Plus the fan is very good. It puts out an estimated 47cfm at full speed. This is one very suprisingly impressive heatsink and HUGE cpu cooler.
Pros~
- Performs surprising well, slightly better than an AX-7
- manually adjustable fan control
- big size, but lightweight
- adjustable fan allows for a "quiet" environment
cons~
- Huge size may not fit all motherboards
- one-prong clip, should be 3 for a heatsink this size
Check out the nice guys at HoloMaXx, Direct Link to the Tocools Novasonic cpu cooler.
Please note:
*The NOVASONIC unit I reviewed here is a pre-production version. The production version has a modified 80x50mm footprint (still the same 80x80mm fin area). The modified footprint allows it to fit on a wider range of motherboards including gigabyte and epox brands, which tend to cram the caps around the CPU socket. This modification does not affect cooling performance.
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