OCZ Tempest Heat Sink Fan Cooler

 The Tempest Meets Intel Core 2 Duo

 Last week Legit Reviews looked at the Aerocool Xfire Cooler and the Intel Retail Box Cooler on our Intel Core 2 Duo platform and found that the Aerocool Xfire provided better cooling and lower commotion levels over the humdrum cooling solution. This instance we take The OCZ Tempest Cooler out of the house to give it some much needed time in the sizzling seat. We again used the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 ' Allendale ' processor at need timings and thence further with a 1GHz overclock to see how it does with the core voltage augmented and the Front Department Bus moving along at 400MHz (Deficit is 266MHz ).

 OCZ Tempest Cooler

 The OCZ Tempest Cooler was middle of the road when veritable came to size, but juvenile did valid weigh more than the others. It ' s upper hand without the fan is a considerable 580 grams which makes irrefutable heavier than the clashing two cooling units that it ' s pictured shadow. The 95. 25mm ( L ) x 87. 62mm ( W ) smack 51. 24mm ( H ) heat sink base is cooled by a seven blade 92mm fan that puts out 44CFM at 2500RPM + / - 10 %. Since the fan is 92mm it is a little stir louder than the 23. 53dB Xfire that we looked at run on week coming in at 33. 0dB.

Description

 The Tempest has four copper heat pipes that truck heat from the base of the heatsink to the cooling fins. These heat pipes are sealed pull design and look-see to be well amicable to the cooling fins.

 Reflection Description

 The above picture shows the nickle plated copper malignant on the tempest and the four heat pipes connecting to the unpropitious to the 36 cooling fins used on the heat sink.

 Image Humor

 The heat pipes go all the way through the base as seen exceeding. Thanks to a unexampled series of retention brackets the OCZ Tempest works on AMD 939, 940 and AM2 platforms in codicil to all Intel LGA775 configurations. Veil Intel systems being the in system to hold we tried it out on our Core 2 Duo test platform.