Cooler Master Launches Passive CPU Cooler
Cooler Master has announced the Hyper Z600, noiseless CPU cooler. The cooler’s X shape design retains rapid heat transfer and creates a lower backpressure, forcing air to pass through quickly, according to the company.
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Don't think I'd trust a fanless CPU cooler on my Quad. I've got a huge HSF on it now, with lots of fins and a fan, and it still gets warm.
It depends on where you set its fan speed. For my P4 3.0 I only need the middle setting. The highest setting is loud, of course.
P4 3.0 actually needed a cooler? I thought I just left my windows open back then. I'd hate to think I'd spend $60 to cool down a $60 processor though I guess it did cost a bit more back then :P
Yeah, and a Bugatti Veyron is the best car (by the numbers) and costs a fortune. You can get a car that's 80% as fast for 1/10th the cost. Stop waving your e-penis around, it's so tacky.
By this I only wanted to show that the C.M. Hyper Z600 if silent cannot be as performant as air cooling, that is noisy. So if someone "really" need power AND silence, they need high end solutions, as Liquid and not a passive coller. So i'm no "waving my e-penis around" like you said, i'm just lightning the path on this bad cooling solution that is the Z600. Learn to read between the lines.
And by the way, i said "CUSTOM", so i made it by myself, so it only cost me some patience and not more than 90$ of materials.
the material and size of the heatsink is what matters...
because the more surface area an object has exposed the more heat will be lost and dissipated. coolers such as the TRUE and 9700 has many fins connected to heatpipes. the heatpipes transfers the heat to the fins and because it has to much surface area, heat is dissipated quickly around the heatsink and with proper ventilation in your case, the heat will get pushed out through an exhaust fan of some sort. think of when you are cold and you roll yourself into the fetal position (a ball) to keep warm, its because you are minimizing the surface area that your body has in contact with the environment, vice versa you tend to sprawl your body out when you are laying down in hot weather to maximize surface area to reduce the heat. same concept.
material matters because certain metals conduct heat better than others.
that is all.
I could never understand why people want a fanless heatsink when they could just buy some low DB scythe fans for better results