Brett DiMichele
Senior HTF Member
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Hey Folks,
Many of you may remember that I was on a quest to find a
great HSF for my NON OverClocked Pentium 4 machine. Some
may even remember JonR flaming me for being so anal about
getting a Great HSF for a NON Clocked machine.
Hey this is all about fun and if you got it, Spend it!
So I went to www.directron.com about a month ago and asked
if they could special order me CoolerMaster's Everest HSF
which is an all Copper HSF with Heat Pipe Technology.
Much to my suprise I recieved an email from Jason at Directron
and he was more than gratious enough to special order me
that cooler.
Well, that took over a month! Not Jason's fault mind you.
I believe CoolerMastere shipped it over from China on the
Paddle Boat (even slower than the Slow Boat From China)
Today the nice Mr.OOps man showed up to deliver my package
of doom! The CoolerMaster HSF had arrived. I opened the package
only to find that CoolerMaster shipped Jason the wrong cooler.
After looking at it and reading the box I determined that
they sent me a HSF that uses the same HSF as the Everest
but this particular unit is called the Fujiyama and it uses
an ultra quiet fan (Looks like a Sunon). No harm no foul, I
am not about to wait for another month while CoolerMaster
paddles the right one across the pond.
So I take it out of the packaging and what shocks me most
is the substantial weight and the finish. This thing has a
polished finish that would embarass most engine compartments
of show cars.
When I flip the cooler upside down there is a sticker over
the entire CPU Die surface area of the HSF.. I remove this
sticker expecting to find some cheesy heat pad. Nope, just
a perfectly shiny lapped base. They included a package of
white thermal grease.
I took my time and masked off the base of the HSF just large
enough to extend slightly beyond the dimensions of the P4's
IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader). Then I cleaned the area with
Isopropyl Alcohol and I applied enough Arctic SilverII
Compound to cover the area. I used a piece of plastic wrap
over my finger to spread the compound. I throughly cleaned
and re applied Arctic Silver II to the CPU's IHS in the
same fashion.
Installing these CoolerMaster HSF's is a snap, literaly. The
Heat Sink makes use of the stock Intel HSF base that comes
on every P4 Mother Board. The CoolerMaster has fingers that
enguage this base and use cam locks to FIRMLY seat the unit.
So does this thing work? Well, as other Arctic Silver users
know, it takes a day or so for the AS to completly bond with
the CPU and HSF surfaces. I fired up [email protected] which I always
run as a foreground application (all the time) and that uses
100% of my 1.8 Ghz P4 needless to say it generates heat.
Before with another CoolerMaster aluminum HSF, which in and
of it's self was not a bad cooler, I was running at 115-120
Degrees Farenheight. (No celcius here please, this is America!)
And after installing the CoolerMaster Fujiyama Heat Pipe?
109 Degrees Farenheight!
Is that a drop? I would say so!
I expect as the AS II
settles in it may even drop and stay below 100 Degrees.
And all this cooling goodness will cost you a mere $37.00
which makes it a clear cut winner over anything that ThermalRight,PAL
or Swiftech have to offer. Plus in the tests I have seen the
CoolerMaster bested, the best by at least 9 degrees.
So if you are a cool freak (Overclocked or not) this is a
worthwhile HSF to check out!
And yes they even make one for those AMD chips!
Many of you may remember that I was on a quest to find a
great HSF for my NON OverClocked Pentium 4 machine. Some
may even remember JonR flaming me for being so anal about
getting a Great HSF for a NON Clocked machine.
Hey this is all about fun and if you got it, Spend it!
So I went to www.directron.com about a month ago and asked
if they could special order me CoolerMaster's Everest HSF
which is an all Copper HSF with Heat Pipe Technology.
Much to my suprise I recieved an email from Jason at Directron
and he was more than gratious enough to special order me
that cooler.
Well, that took over a month! Not Jason's fault mind you.
I believe CoolerMastere shipped it over from China on the
Paddle Boat (even slower than the Slow Boat From China)
Today the nice Mr.OOps man showed up to deliver my package
of doom! The CoolerMaster HSF had arrived. I opened the package
only to find that CoolerMaster shipped Jason the wrong cooler.
After looking at it and reading the box I determined that
they sent me a HSF that uses the same HSF as the Everest
but this particular unit is called the Fujiyama and it uses
an ultra quiet fan (Looks like a Sunon). No harm no foul, I
am not about to wait for another month while CoolerMaster
paddles the right one across the pond.
So I take it out of the packaging and what shocks me most
is the substantial weight and the finish. This thing has a
polished finish that would embarass most engine compartments
of show cars.
When I flip the cooler upside down there is a sticker over
the entire CPU Die surface area of the HSF.. I remove this
sticker expecting to find some cheesy heat pad. Nope, just
a perfectly shiny lapped base. They included a package of
white thermal grease.
I took my time and masked off the base of the HSF just large
enough to extend slightly beyond the dimensions of the P4's
IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader). Then I cleaned the area with
Isopropyl Alcohol and I applied enough Arctic SilverII
Compound to cover the area. I used a piece of plastic wrap
over my finger to spread the compound. I throughly cleaned
and re applied Arctic Silver II to the CPU's IHS in the
same fashion.
Installing these CoolerMaster HSF's is a snap, literaly. The
Heat Sink makes use of the stock Intel HSF base that comes
on every P4 Mother Board. The CoolerMaster has fingers that
enguage this base and use cam locks to FIRMLY seat the unit.
So does this thing work? Well, as other Arctic Silver users
know, it takes a day or so for the AS to completly bond with
the CPU and HSF surfaces. I fired up [email protected] which I always
run as a foreground application (all the time) and that uses
100% of my 1.8 Ghz P4 needless to say it generates heat.
Before with another CoolerMaster aluminum HSF, which in and
of it's self was not a bad cooler, I was running at 115-120
Degrees Farenheight. (No celcius here please, this is America!)
And after installing the CoolerMaster Fujiyama Heat Pipe?
109 Degrees Farenheight!
Is that a drop? I would say so!
settles in it may even drop and stay below 100 Degrees.
And all this cooling goodness will cost you a mere $37.00
which makes it a clear cut winner over anything that ThermalRight,PAL
or Swiftech have to offer. Plus in the tests I have seen the
CoolerMaster bested, the best by at least 9 degrees.
So if you are a cool freak (Overclocked or not) this is a
worthwhile HSF to check out!
And yes they even make one for those AMD chips!