Ultra X-Wind CPU Cooler

-Shockwave- · October 22nd, 2008, 12:58 AM

This thing works well. http://www.ultraproducts.com/product...&productID=515

I had a hell of a time fitting it in where it needed to go - had to take the mobo out of the case, the power supply, the video card... pretty much everything out, then hardly was able to get the two connecting prongs over the plastic heatsink connection, but it was worth it and cools much better than my old stock junky heatsink and fan.

It also has a nob to adjust the fan speed for when you want to get into intensive gaming and then can lower the speed during normal Windows/Online browsing.

**Regeneration** · October 22nd, 2008, 03:31 AM

Sorry to bring the bad news but this cooler’s design is extremely poor for CPU cooling. The problem is... most of today’s latest CPUs can’t handle heat like GPU or old CPUs (Especially Athlons). Since this cooler is “baseless” and without aluminum fins, your CPU could die in less then a second in case of fan failure. Other heatsinks are more resistible and could hold off for some time/forever in case of fan failure. Fans tend to fail after some time and it’s very important to have a lot of aluminum fins on CPU coolers. I’d attach second fan to improve its thermal stability.

IModIntel · October 22nd, 2008, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Regeneration

Sorry to bring the bad news but this cooler’s design is extremely poor for CPU cooling. The problem is... most of today’s latest CPUs can’t handle heat like GPU or old CPUs (Especially Athlons). Since this cooler is “baseless” and without aluminum fins, your CPU could die in less then a second in case of fan failure. Other heatsinks are more resistible and could hold off for some time/forever in case of fan failure. Fans tend to fail after some time and it’s very important to have a lot of aluminum fins on CPU coolers. I’d attach second fan to improve its thermal stability.

Most Athlon 64's of that day stay under 35C even with the stock cooler.

-Shockwave- · October 23rd, 2008, 12:32 AM

It's not "baseless" it is basically the same as this cooler.

http://www.directron.com/clp0391.html

IModAmd · October 23rd, 2008, 05:12 AM

All thoses designs come from Zalman coolers rofl..And for the fan faillure rofl... it's pretty rare you will saw an fan issue inside 5 years rofl... I had an Nvidia FX5200 and the fan started to fail 1 week ago. It's 6 years i have the GPU and it's not the best fan on the market so think about Zalman , Thermaltake or ultra products...I think when you will put the computer at the garbage the fans will still work rofl. Anyways if you have an good airflow in your computer case even if the CPU fan fails the temp will be less than 70C .

IModIntel · October 23rd, 2008, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by IModAmd

All thoses designs come from Zalman coolers rofl..And for the fan faillure rofl... it's pretty rare you will saw an fan issue inside 5 years rofl... I had an Nvidia FX5200 and the fan started to fail 1 week ago. It's 6 years i have the GPU and it's not the best fan on the market so think about Zalman , Thermaltake or ultra products...I think when you will put the computer at the garbage the fans will still work rofl. Anyways if you have an good airflow in your computer case even if the CPU fan fails the temp will be less than 70C .

I agree rofl, rofl. But, rofl...rofl... Zalman rofl...r...still make better coolers... rofl...this one isn't so...rofl... bad rofl...

**Regeneration** · October 23rd, 2008, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by IModIntel

Most Athlon 64's of that day stay under 35C even with the stock cooler.

Athlons are running at low temperatures but also their die temperature is low.

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Originally Posted by IModAmd

It's pretty rare you will saw an fan issue inside 5 years rofl... I had an Nvidia FX5200 and the fan started to fail 1 week ago. It's 6 years i have the GPU and it's not the best fan on the market so think about Zalman.

Fans can live around to 5-6 years only in super-clean-environment without smokes ash, dirt and hair.

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Originally Posted by IModAmd

Anyways if you have an good airflow in your computer case even if the CPU fan fails the temp will be less than 70C.

Doesn't apply to copper-based heatsinks with that "Zalman" design. I already tested it myself on 7800GT and it took it only one second to die. Performance has its price. In case of fan failure, it will reach 150c even with the auto shutdown feature in the BIOS and ten 120m case fans. You're welcomed to test it by yourself.

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Originally Posted by -Shockwave-

It's not "baseless" it is basically the same as this cooler.

Its not exactly the same (1:1).

IModIntel · October 23rd, 2008, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Regeneration

Athlons are running at low temperatures but also their die temperature is low.

Well, DUH! The temperature
of the die is very close to the temperature of the the heatspreader!

-Shockwave- · October 24th, 2008, 01:24 AM

Anyway, this cooler is working out just fine. If it makes any of you feel better, I keep my PC extremely clean and I take everything out of the case every month and go through all the parts and put them back together again. Very clean!

Unixlord · October 24th, 2008, 01:34 AM

Tower coolers are still the best the only drawback is hardly any airflow hitting the northbridge but there are solutions for that.