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Originally Posted by FACE
I think what he was talking about was comparing the Megahalems to the smaller form factor H/S that any 3rd grader can tell will not hang. It's like setting a '72 Barracuda next to a top-fuel funny car, and then saying "Barracudas suck."
It should have had compared like heatsinks... as in other low-pro heasinks for servers and htpc's... That is, unless it performed crazy-awesome, then it should be stepped up just to show how it performs vs. the next grade up.
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Thanks man.. In HCs defense I did get side tracked by a little prolimatech hate. They came out with the mega... and released papers on like 5 other heatsinks. And never made any of them.
In other words.. they are living off their true120 design.. (they are the designers of it) the TRUE120 was like 3-4 years old when they left TR... so yes, I can legitimately hate on the company.
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Originally Posted by Hondacity
heatsinks aren't like cars...if you have a car...you'd know if its a v6 v8 v10 v16
i920 @ 3.6-3.8ghz isn't exactly a hard load for most after market good heatsinks...
my baseline for any review is the stock heatsink...and we all know if an aftermarket heatsink manufacturer introduces a product...we compare results agains the stock heatsink...its that simple...
just look at the intel stock heatsink..and the sam17..they perform almost similar...which is weird..
miahallen used a noisy delta fan.......i wouldn't use a delta fan on my daily pc
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Why do you keep talking about Jeremiah? He did not do that review.
As for comparing it against the stock Intel heatsink...
Lets do an apples to apples comparison...
Samuel is smaller. (debateable.. looks smaller..in height i am not going to look up specs I dont care.. $54 it is too expensive)
S has Larger fan
S has Slower Fan
S has Quieter fan
S adds more DAC cooling to the VRMs.
Yah know since you brought up the car analogy. It likes comparing a small block V6 against a straight 6 stock and a bunch of nascar tweaked engines (V8s punched out, supercharged, hipo fuel) and guess what... despite all that.. with a low load.. the Sammy was still within 5C load at stock of the mega.
Am I going to buy that HS? Hell no.
Why? Overpriced, under capable and like most products problems fitting it on every mobo.
As far as reviews go? Thats a THG review. Not a Canuck review, is what I am really saying.