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High-performance air cooling for under £30.
For the name alone...
So it's basically a much cheaper version of Noctua's heatsink and fan combos (which are bloody good).
For the money, it'd be rude not to try one.
If the colour is REALLY that much of an issue against that kind of performance, I'd raise an eyebrow.
This should get alot more than Hexus good Value
The good value is staggering, but the performance is also very good. This should have been compared to a Noctua cooler and see how they go toe to toe.
Just one question, how do I order?
That's what gets me about these things. I don't want anything even halfway to sheer scale, I want the same quality of cooling with a case that look surprisingly empty. ;-)Quote:
"Take the heatsink out of the box and you get a sense of the sheer scale of this thing."
If you ever get into bodybuilding then you'll want a suitable protein powder. Forget the ingredients, for you I recommend "Doctor Semtex Nuclear Hulk-Bulk Massive Muscle Maximiser"™. ;o)Quote:
Originally Posted by tonyd223
Looks like a big cheap Scythe Mugen, so it might work well in a passive setup too - might give one a pop when I get my socket 1150 Pentium.
There's a whole range of them on Amazon too, but boy do they cost...
It seems like the fans that comes with the cooler is pretty good. That's reassuring. I've always wanted to try Deepcool fans.
i would have to loved to see CM Hyper 212+ in the comparison.
How do these Hexus rating work then? Is Hexus "Good Value" better or worse than Hexus "recommended"?
Just wondering, because if I read this review correctly; this cooler outperforms the H75, costs half the price, and Hexus gave the H75 a "Recommended" score.
I think it should receive both the Good Value and recommended
I quite agree with you, especially as it beats the Corsair H75 that costs just over twice as much. It has excellent performance and is cracking value at under £29. For the price is practically unbeatable. Would they have only given it "Hexus good value" because of the relatively unknown brand (even though they have been around for a while now)? No doubt if it was a Noctua or Thermalright and double the price it would have got a better recommendation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
Temptation got too much, ordered one!
I don't know anything about the actual fluids used in coolers, but I'm sure that they would rely upon density/temperature variation, or even low boiling points advantaging the gas/liquid phase change - gases are lighter than liquids... so why did you mount the cooler on what appears to me to be its side? I would have thought the correct orientation for a vertical board would have been as depicted in this image?
http://img.hexus.net/v2/cooling/Deepcool/Lucifer/lucifer-04b.jpg
Notice that they have gone to pains to ensure that pipes either rise to the finned section, or are flat in this orientation?
Are the fins pressed on or brazed onto the heatpipes? (It makes a big difference to thermal conductivity)
Regarding heatpipes. The original designs relied on gravity, but modern heatpipes have a wick inside them which enables them to work any way up. That innovation is a direct result of needing heatpipes to work in spacecraft, to get internally generated heat out to radiators (I have a flight spare near my work desk which was one of the first examples of the technology in space)
They do work better with the cpu down, but they will work in any orientation.
Take a look at http://www.electronics-cooling.com/1996/09/heat-pipes-for-electronics-cooling-applications/ for a few pretty pictures. The working fluid is usually water but can also be acetone or any other substance.
Thank you for that information and link, stoatwblr... it was a subject I hadn't much considered, but was intrigued enough by the trickling noises coming from mine when stressed moderately to reason that they were gravity operated. I've only purchased models which enable gravity flow through all pipes when mounted so. Wicking makes sense; it would allow use in zero-G and adversely mounted situations as you say whilst only moderately interfering with free flow. I would have thought that a refrigeration fluid with a phase change in the temperature range involved (60 - 90degC ?) would have been employed, but even so, water ticks a lot of boxes.