Verax Helado 2 PWM-T: Simply Too Expensive
Veteran company Verax offers a cooler named Helado 2 PWM-T. It sports a blue, unlit, 92mm PWM fan.
The design principles of the Helado 2 and Xigmatek’s HDT S1283 are similar: the Helado 2 comes with heatpipes that are in direct contact with the CPU, conducting heat to the horizontally-aligned cooling fins. As a result of its smaller fan, the cooling surface provided by the fins is also smaller.
The cooling efficiency of the Helado cooler is only average. The Core 2 quad-core processor we used for testing reached up to 78 °C with all four cores under full load, though the cooler never got unpleasantly loud. With the CPU idle, the temperature drops to about 40 °C, resulting in an even lower noise level.
Considering the overall performance, the price of nearly $89 is much too high.
CPU | 100% Load | Idle |
---|---|---|
Temperature | 78 °C | 39.5 °C |
Noise | 38.3 dB(A) | 37.5 dB(A) |
Fan Speed | 1,600 RPM | 1,200 RPM |
Weight | 450g | |
Intel Compat. | LGA775 | |
AMD Compat. | AM2/AM2+ | 939/940 |