I've noticed the bending before on the boards that get used for heatsink testing - I'd put it down to different tensions on different mountings but if the same board is getting bent like that it's only gonna be a matter of time before it breaks (pics please!)
@Jipa, i agree! I like the fact that they are smaller than the scythe range of coolers, i just purchased and installed a scythe ninja and its massive, it has cranked my temps down from when i used the intel stock cooler but i had trouble getting the fan in with my ram, nice to see decent temps can be had with a smaller cooler...and the £10 one, no wonder it was given best value! nice review
But then again.. If you compare the kink on that mobo to the one I saw at Campus Party that's not so big of a deal... However I'd like to point out that whoever made that to the poor mobo on purpose should be punished...
Look how big the graph is and how many heatsink installs I've subjected the same board to! I'll make sure I'll straighten it out in future but I think it's just been flexed too much
Bindi: do you reckon it's the pins of the stock 775-cooler that do that or does the same problem appear also with bolt-through mounting? Sure most users change the cooler once or twice, so that's not a big of a deal, but I'm just interested in why mobos do that..
pins mostly - because you have to press from the top without underneath support. With bolts you're meant to tighten opposite ones evenly and stop before it bends.
You can still bend it back easily enough, and if it's screwed in your case firmly it shouldn't bend as much.
You have gotten centimeter and milimeter mixed up on page on 1:
"The build quality is very good and the 90cm sleeve bearing cooling fan is rated at just 22dB. It's designed to draw air in from the sides as well as the front before forcing it inwards - as a result, Cooler Master claims that this gives the effective cooling of a 100cm fan instead."
Should be "mm" not "cm" otherwise that would be some big ass fans ;)
Originally Posted by Jipa But then again.. If you compare the kink on that mobo to the one I saw at Campus Party that's not so big of a deal... However I'd like to point out that whoever made that to the poor mobo on purpose should be punished...
This is the first disappointing review I've read on this site in quite a while. The reviewer needs to take a clear stance on the results and make a clear and intelligent comparison with the selected Noctua Cooler. Muddled as is.
Originally Posted by Jipa But then again.. If you compare the kink on that mobo to the one I saw at Campus Party that's not so big of a deal... However I'd like to point out that whoever made that to the poor mobo on purpose should be punished...
wholly crap, who would purposefully bend a motherboard
Originally Posted by christopher3393 This is the first disappointing review I've read on this site in quite a while. The reviewer needs to take a clear stance on the results and make a clear and intelligent comparison with the selected Noctua Cooler. Muddled as is.
OK.
There isn't a direct comparison - despite the very similar design, the Noctua is designed for silence and comes with an 800rpm fan, the Cooler Master comes with a 2000rpm fan and has a far greater performance, as well as noise as a result. You can swap out the fans for alternatives, with each other if need be, and they'd probably perform about the same because of it. You don't buy a Noctua expecting ultimate performance, like you don't buy a 212 expecting silence, but both can do either, just not out the box. It doesn't even come with inbuilt fan regulation like you get with the Thermaltakes.
There are too many options to say, "get this, don't get that" because you can do more than just take it out the box and throw it on a CPU.
I personally would not buy the 212 because of the noise, I wouldn't get the Noctua either because it's particularly low slung making it incompatible with a fair few motherboards. I'd still get either Thermaltake or stick with my Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro.
Originally Posted by Clocked I've noticed the bending before on the boards that get used for heatsink testing - I'd put it down to different tensions on different mountings but if the same board is getting bent like that it's only gonna be a matter of time before it breaks (pics please!)
Didn't their last board break because of something like that?
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Originally Posted by SinxarKnights I would like to see the temps for the stock Intel and AMD coolers. They are not included in this review or the last one.
Agreed. Though I think that they are taken to be pretty rubbish. It would be nice to see a review of the new one that some with the newer processors.
On a different note, what does lapped mean? You say that it had poor contact in the middle, so does that mean you bent the processor (!) or shaved a bit off the top?
lapping something means sanding it down with a bit of wet n dry fine grit to a flat and polished finish. We took off the poor finish to make a better one.
Originally Posted by Cupboard You say that it had poor contact in the middle, so does that mean you bent the processor (!) or shaved a bit off the top?
Ach, some processors aren't completely flat when they're made, same is true for heatsinks... Oh, and as Bindi says, some are scratched....
The build quality is very good and the 90mm sleeve bearing cooling fan is rated at just 22dB. It's designed to draw air in from the sides as well as the front before forcing it inwards - as a result, Cooler Master claims that this gives the effective cooling of a 100mm fan instead.
isn't it the case that it IS a 100mm fan mounted in a 92mm frame?
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That can't be healthy, but on the plus side it looks kind of like Darth Vader.
You can still bend it back easily enough, and if it's screwed in your case firmly it shouldn't bend as much.
"The build quality is very good and the 90cm sleeve bearing cooling fan is rated at just 22dB. It's designed to draw air in from the sides as well as the front before forcing it inwards - as a result, Cooler Master claims that this gives the effective cooling of a 100cm fan instead."
Should be "mm" not "cm" otherwise that would be some big ass fans ;)
Thanks for the reviews.
Next weeks review: 90m fan.
Week after: fan guard.. possibly.
wholly crap, who would purposefully bend a motherboard
OK.
There isn't a direct comparison - despite the very similar design, the Noctua is designed for silence and comes with an 800rpm fan, the Cooler Master comes with a 2000rpm fan and has a far greater performance, as well as noise as a result. You can swap out the fans for alternatives, with each other if need be, and they'd probably perform about the same because of it. You don't buy a Noctua expecting ultimate performance, like you don't buy a 212 expecting silence, but both can do either, just not out the box. It doesn't even come with inbuilt fan regulation like you get with the Thermaltakes.
There are too many options to say, "get this, don't get that" because you can do more than just take it out the box and throw it on a CPU.
I personally would not buy the 212 because of the noise, I wouldn't get the Noctua either because it's particularly low slung making it incompatible with a fair few motherboards. I'd still get either Thermaltake or stick with my Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro.
Didn't their last board break because of something like that?
Agreed. Though I think that they are taken to be pretty rubbish. It would be nice to see a review of the new one that some with the newer processors.
On a different note, what does lapped mean? You say that it had poor contact in the middle, so does that mean you bent the processor (!) or shaved a bit off the top?
Ach, some processors aren't completely flat when they're made, same is true for heatsinks... Oh, and as Bindi says, some are scratched....
So lapping levels the whole lot out