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Sapphire's Vapor-X cooling solutions are world renowned in terms of their cooling performance and excellent acoustics. Until recently they have only been available for graphics cards. Today Sapphire have unveiled the Vapor-X CPU cooler, Sapphire's first ever CPU cooler, and we have one here for review on release day.
The Rosewill AIOLOS is a CPU cooler with a tower heatsink, four heatpipes, and a 120 mm fan. Let’s test it!
On Frostytech's test bench today is the Silverstone Heligon HE01 (SST-HE01) heatsink, an interesting asymmetric dual tower CPU cooler built for Intel LGA2011/1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD socket AM2/AM3/FM1/FM2 processors. At the heart of the heatsink is a massive 140mm vaneaxial fan, flanked by differently sized fin stacks which correspond to intake and exhaust air flows. On the cool air-intake side of the fan is a 30mm thick fin tower with a straight row of heatpipes intersecting the fins. On the hot exhaust side we find a slightly wider, 50mm thick fin tower constructed from slightly thicker aluminum fins.
One thing I didn't anticipate with my move to the ITX form factor was the tight fit inside the ITX case I chose. I had to give up my large dual tower, dual 140mm silent fan Noctua cooler in favor a much smaller cooler I had in the parts bin (the only thing laying around that would fit the depth requirements). I wanted a better cooler, but I wanted something that was both ultra quiet (a big requirement for my regular usage) and high performing (for when I want to put on a game here and there). This is where Noctua's latest cooler, the NH-L9i, seemed to fit the bill.
As a rule of thumb there are two types of CPU cooler on the market. The "conventional" and most common design which is a "Tower-Heatsink" design. This consists of one, two or sometimes three aluminium heatsink "towers" with fans in between them and they are generally quite tall - around 160mm.
A few weeks ago I was laying in bed with my significant other watching a movie on her Macbook Pro. Naturally the Macbook was lying across my thighs and after about 30 minutes the bottom of her computer began to get really hot, hot to the point where I had to lay the computer between us. Coincidentally the next week Bob asked me to review the NXZT Cyro E-40 Laptop cooler and my first thought was, “where was this thing when I actually needed it?” NZXT has a solid history in the laptop cooling market. Any recommendation I’ve made in the past for a cooler I’ve always said to look at NZXT. Let’s find out if the Cyro-E40 lives up to my recommendation.
Today we are going to look at one of Arctic’s low profile CPU coolers … the Alpine 64 Plus, which is designed to be used exclusively with AMD processors. This makes it ideal for use in small form factor systems or HTPCs. We imagine many users will purchase this cooler to use in combination with one of AMDs Vision A8 APUs in a media system where acoustics and performance are both important considerations.
Lost in a sea of hundreds of CPU heatsinks when all you want is the best of the best? Quickly find the Top 5 Heatsinks for Intel and AMD processors from over 600 CPU coolers tested by Frostytech, right here. The heatsinks are ranked by the coolest performance, lowest noise and by low profile cooling ability...
So how well do these things push air? And are they really quiet? How great is the fan control? Is Obama responsible for crop circles? We’ll attempt to answer some of these questions in this review.
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