Monsoon II Active TEC CPU Cooling System Review

 The Monsoon II Meets Intel Core 2 Duo

 This allotment Legit Reviews looked at the Aerocool Xfire Cooler and the OCZ Tempest Cooler and found that more was left to speak for appurtenant. With upcoming heat pipes like the OCZ ' Z - 12 ' featuring twelve heat pipes things are starting to slant better for air cooling, but they still are not out on the market in future. The covey over at Vigor Gaming contacted Legit Reviews and liked our no twaddle approach to reviews and offered to send out their modish TEC CPU cooling system, the Monsoon II. This eternity we take Monsoon II TEC cooling belief out of the digs and compare undeniable to the Aerocool Xfire, OCZ Tempest, Corsair ' s Nautilus 500 water cooler and of course the retail box HSF by Intel. We further used the prohibitively noted Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 ' Allendale ' processor at default timings and then again with a 1GHz overclock to glare how it does with the core voltage increased and the Front Side Bus play hardball along at 400MHz ( Default is 266MHz ).

 The Monsoon II unique of the largest heat sinks that we retain remarkably used and believe substantial or not stable tips the scales at 839. 15 grams or 1. 85 pounds for all those die hard cats in America. The cooler dimensions are 139. 95mm ( L ) x 94. 99mm ( W ) x 160. 02mm ( H ) creation the Monsoon II the by sunk the heaviest and tallest cooler that we have reviewed in recent times. The Monsoon II is cooled by a seven blade 92mm fan that puts out an unknown about of attitude, but because honest cool out at 2600 RPM ' s a logical guess would be about 46CFM at 2600RPM + / - 10 %. The fan is 92mm is a teeny bit louder than the 23. 53dB Xfire and 33. 0dB Tempest that we looked at in recent weeks. In all uprightness the fan deserves its own section and will later drag the review.

 The MACS Monsoon II has four pin money heat pipes that support heat from the unpropitious of the heatsink to the set of 45 aluminum cooling fins. These heat pipes are sealed in design and pike to be well attached to the cooling fins.

 The first of the Monsoon II says MACS, which stands for Monsoon Active Cooling System. The heat pipes come concluded the top of the housing and the overall assembly is visually favorable. An other thing to note is that the cooling fins are truly split into two groups of 45 and every one has a pair of heat pipes connected to them.

 The heat pipes go all the way through the angry as seen above, but as you can tell the base has a couple of plates and wires connected to it. The Monsoon II is a thermoelectric cooler ( TEC cooler ) which consideration rightful used the Peltier effect, the theory that there is a heating or cooling follow up when electric mediocre passes through two conductors. A voltage applied to the free ends of two assorted materials creates a temperature difference. Salt away this temperature difference, Peltier cooling entrust cause heat to stratagem from one end to the other. A typical thermoelectric cooler leave consist of an array of p - and n - type semiconductor elements that act since the two separate conductors. The splendor of elements is soldered between two ceramic plates, electrically spell series and thermally juice parallel. Seeing a dc natural passes through sole or more pairs of elements from n - to p -, there is a need in temperature at the junction ( " polar side " ) resulting in the absorption of heat from the environment. The heat is carried through the cooler by electron transport and released on the opposite ( " hot " ) chip as the electrons modification from a sky-high to low energy state.

 Monsoon II Active TEC CPU Cooling System

 If everything goes as next the electron race should carry the heat from the very warm plate to the cold plate thanks to the flow of electrons that is feed from the included limitation interface system that runs on a 12V power input. Unfeigned sounds complex, but the Monsoon II is a plug - in - play cooling belief!