mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 (edited) THE STUFF ORDERED: Panaflo 120x38mm Ultra High Speed Fan (FBA12G12U) $20.49 Thermalright XP-120 - Athlon64 & Pentium 4 $57.99 Artic Silver 5 $8.5 Well, all things have an end, and I thought that it was time for my good ol' heatsink to take a break. It wasn?t really cooling my X2 4400 very well. Good bye old timer! Ill sure miss ya'! Alright, about the xp-120.... I must compliment frozencpu.com for two things, 1 better price than the egg, and also great shipping, just on time! This is the signature thermalright package, a brown box with nothing but the thermalright logo on top First thing you see is a nice little sticker and the instruction guide, directly beneath it the HSF itself, all wrapped in a nice thick coat of foam. Under the HSF, you find the K8 adapter and the retention brackets for 120mm fan Here is a list of all the stuff included: 1 XP-120 2 mounting clip 2 Rubber vibration dampeners 2 120mm fan wire clips 1 Thermal paste syringe 1 K8 adapting RM 2 M3 0.5+15mm screws 1 instruction booklet 1 sticker It is very well packed, I doubt that anything will happen to it if I drop it out the window, but I will leave that experiment for another da;);) For those of you who thought that the XP-120 was big... you are wrong, IT IS HUGE!!!! I have never seen such a thing to cool a CPU. There it is compared to the old HSF It is also pretty high profile Note that it still has no fan, and it is the height of the stock cooler! Here is another pic, I have average sized hands, and compare the size, and it is just HUGE in all ways! That is the most shocking thing IMO Edited September 18, 2005 by mikeboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 Alright, what is a heatsink without a fan? So I went ahead and ordered one of them Panaflo ones, but I got the biggest one I could find, and I have to say, it was a little bigger than expected :pinch: Looks like a regular 120mm fan with an oversized rotor, but when you look at it from another angle... You realize that it isn?t as regular as it looks. What happens when you put together a high HSF and a huge a** fan? You get something a little like this... 10 cm high tower of pure cooling power!! I kinda forgot to deselect the fan filter, so I got one... $2 waste:pinch:h: stupid m:no:o: Add that to the tower and get 11cm of cooling Pretty tall huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 INSTALATION Well, the instructions from the manual where like those "insert A1 into socket 4C, and one big drawing with plenty to get confused with, I also checked out at their webpage, to see if they had an instruction guide, and they do, a really good one, with lots of pictures for everyone who couldn?t read the instructions. Installation was pretty simple, change the RM, apply thermal paste, and hook it in, sounds simple enough... [/url:pinch:h: All I can say is that I had to remove my OCZ Gold VX RAM because the heat spreader was too high! And after hooking the hsf in, I had to squeeze my RAM back in there, under the HSF, that was the only thing I disliked. But the rest was fairly simple. I forgot to take pics of the installation, so here it is installed I did not find mayor compatibility problem with my mobo, DFI SLi-D, only one little HSF touches one of the heat pipes, but it does not obstruct installation Overall, the installation was easy and quick, about 10 minutes, took me a while to decide to take out the RAM.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 RESULTS Compared to my old stock HSF brought with my X2 4400 (not the one in the first pic obviously :p ), there is a small decrease of temps on idle, from 1-2? before I idled at 32-34?, with my XP-120, I have Mozilla notepad msn main screen, 1 conversation (with a guy that is A8N SLi Obsessed!) and file explorer, also add Photoshop, and am getting this temps Compared to my old idle temps Since it is such a big fan, all the rest has cooled, and my airflow has at least doubled, the good thing about the 120mm is that you get much more CFM for the same noise, that extra CFM cools the RAM and most of the components, my chipset temp is down to 45?, I feel comfortable with that temp, and my PWN IC dropped almost 5-6? !! All that is left now, is LOAD, some serious stress testing and prime 95 just to check the temps. Prime95: The processor remained cooler than I expected it to, with the stock, the processor would jump to 42-45? on torture tests on Prime95, now it stays between 36-38? Then I closed Prime and immediately I saw the temps drop! CONCLUSION: This is great HSF, it is easy to install, it has the great advantage of using a 120mm fan, and it looks like a space ship, so it is a great gift for kids of all;)ges ;) I highly recommend this HSF PROS: -120mm fan (make just as much noise as my stock fan) -great results -cools the other components -it is light weight compared to HSF's it's size CONS: -the size makes it a bit difficult to install All that is left to say now is.... THIS COMPONENT IS Hope this review h:Dped :D Also frozencpu is getting a good review fr:p me :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the godfather Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 nice review!! only thing is that u called it Thermaltake instead of Thermalright a copule of times :D good work, and congrats on a new heatsink WITH POWER muahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 nice review!! only thing is that u called it Thermaltake instead of Thermalright a copule of times :D good work, and congrats on a new heatsink WITH POWER muahaha 586543887[/snapback] arrgh! thermaltake is my case, sorry about that correcting... :pinch: edit: there we go all ready now, sorry about that thermalright, and thanks for pointing it out godfather :D I guess themps will drop even more once the AS5 sets in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the godfather Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 thats ok lol! im still considering this Heatsink or a Scythe Ninja http://www.scythe.co.jp/en/cooler/SCNJ1000.htm maybe ill go with the ninja cause of me going space causious that its tall, not wide. but the XP-120 still owns, id get one if the other is out of stock :D :D psst :rofl: i can still see thermal take in this line "This is the signature thermalright package, a brown box with nothing but the thermaltake logo on top" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 alright, there we go, no more thermaltakes on my thermalright review :p I would get that one, passive coolig will never be as good as active cooling, maybe it is quiet, but I go for performance over looks (sound in this case), if anything I would consider xp-120 or xp90c, but if I had to choose again, I would do the same thing, xp-120 is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the godfather Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 yep very nice XP-120 gives superb performance in all areas. but i have found the ninja very cheap here in Aus compared to the XP-120, and i want to have some money left to get the Gigabyte Aurora 3d to accompany. i only want hte ninja now so when i upgrade (hopefully *fingers crossed* to a setup like ur's) i can still use the HS :p heh and either way ive got my antec 120mm to spare if i get the case also, so i can put it on either HS too :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 18, 2005 Author Share Posted September 18, 2005 Well, I finished a second test, battlefield 2 at full settings while surfing the web, and got temps similar to prime95, a bit higher CPU: 38? Chipset: 52? PWM IC: 43? pretty good huh? this hsf rules, post you feedback on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the godfather Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 wow thats nice.. :D again congrats on the new HSF. now uve really got me debating on which one to get hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotchaforce Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 actually the scythe n-1000 (i think thats what its called) is apparently the king of heatsinks... and the SI-120 is also better than the XP-120 :p however xp-120 is still one huge honkin piece of cooling machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liandros Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 i never realsized that this thing was THAT BIG. i mean i knew it was big but good god that is crazy big. i might have to consider one of these in my next build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 actually the scythe n-1000 (i think thats what its called) is apparently the king of heatsinks...and the SI-120 is also better than the XP-120 :p however xp-120 is still one huge honkin piece of cooling machine 586546570[/snapback] about that, the SI series depend only on the heatpipes, the xp 120 has those heatpipes, but it aldo has fins that run from, the bottom to the big fins, thus providing more contact area, I also considered the SI 120 and SI 90 before my purchase, but I decided to get the xp 120 because of the added fins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kronik Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 nice review, just wanted to ask does the HSF block off the first PCI-e port on this mobo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srizo Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 if you guys are worrying about the size the of XP-120 then i would sugest getting the XP-90C which cools slightly better than xp-120 and uses a 92mm fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix XII Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Where did you get that info from? I've heard all around that the XP-120 is the best. I have it and absolutely love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gotchaforce Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 if you guys are worrying about the size the of XP-120 then i would sugest getting the XP-90C which cools slightly better than xp-120 and uses a 92mm fan 586547247[/snapback] the scythe and XP-90C are the best heatsinks out there IMO. The xp-90c packs the punch of thermalright's 120series, while having an easy installation, the 120mm coolers are a major pain in the ass to put in, and ive heard way too many stories about people having the 120's bump into their ram (in fact my cousin had to suffer 15% restocking at newegg because his corsair ram was too tall, my fault for recommending the tall stuff though). The scythe is supposedly sorta easy to put in, but the absolutely awesome cooling makes up for it, especially if you equip to nice papst or panaflo 120mms on them... *drool* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 that is fking huge....but pretty cool :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 there is a review, that helped me decide which one to buy, I was between the xp90c and the xp120, and the review showed that both of them had very similar results, because what it lacks in size, it makes up with copper, so the 90c ain't a bad HSF, but it didnt make the same result as the xp-120, it trolled behind it 1? on idle and around 2? on load, so the diff aint much, bet the xp 120 is better in a case with nice airflow and yes, it blocks the first pci slot of my mobo, but it does warn you of it in the webpage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Whoa, and I thought my Zalman CNPS7700 was huge... Nice review. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom911 Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Awesome review man! I'm acually thinking to get the XP90c soon! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 hre we go guys, I told you about the review on which it defines which thermalright hsf os best there I found it http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=392627&P=2 hope it helped 586555639[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeboy Posted December 23, 2005 Author Share Posted December 23, 2005 I have to add, all the rumors about the Artic Silver 5 working better once it sit for some time, time does make it work better, my temps have been increasingly lowering, I get now idle of 29? C. A 2 degree jump from when I first installed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fegul Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 I bought the ThermalTAKE Big Typhoon from Newegg a while back, and in some of its reviews its performed on par and bested the XP-120! It is pretty massive too, makes heavy use of Heatpipes and has a 120mm fan on it as well. Plus its only 16db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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