Even a little noise can seem like a lot of noise when the rest of your system is extra quiet, so it with a bit of trepidation that we offer you the chance to hear this particular heatsink. The waveform and spectral images are just for guidance, and can't be compared visually with other heatsinks because the sound clips don't always scale up visually. In any case, it is always more fun to listen to the heatsink directly and see just how loud it is rather than looking at a picture.

To hear this heatsink, simply click on the pair of headphones .

Synthetic Temperature Test Results: *Ranked according to 100W small interface die test results.

FrostyTech Synthetic Temperature Test Platform Results
	Mfg.	Model	Ambient Temp.	27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block		27mm large copper block	15mm small copper block	Thermal pad	No. Fans	Fan Noise	Clip force
				50W	50W		100W	100W
1	Thermal Integration	TI-V77L	26.5	39.1	44.4		57.5	63.6	grey	1	med	med
2	Swiftech	MCXC370	21.4	38.3	43.4		53.5	65.7	none	1	med	med
3	OCZ	Gladiator	21.4	33.3	47.3		50.6	70.3	none	1	very loud	med
4	Thermal Integration	TI-V86-15	24.9	48.2	46.0		70.8	71.9	none	1	med	med
5	Vantec	CCK-6027D	27.4	45.4	49.6		64.9	73.4	none	1	med	med
6	Swiftech	MCX370	22.3	42.0	46.1		60.3	75.6	none	1	med	hard
7	Akasa	Silver Mountain	26.6	46.2	51.5		65.0	76.1	none	1	loud	med
8	Thermal Integration	TI-S8640L	24.9	48.4	50.4		72.3	77.2	none	1	med	med
9	AVC	112AM1	24.8	46.6	52.9		70.1	79.6	none	1	low	stiff
10	Thermaltake	Volcano 6cu+	26.5	40.3	55.3		58.6	84.4	carbon	1	loud	med
11	Spire	5T060B1H3R	26.7	42.7	57.5		64.6	85.1	none	1	low	med
12	Thermalright	CB-6L	24.6	50.3	57.7		73.8	92.7	white pad	1	low	med
13	Fortis	A92	26.7	45.6	65.8		67.8	97.8	none	1	loud	stiff
				50W	50W		100W	100W

As we might have suspected to see, the TI-S8640L posts lower results than the TI-V86 heatsink which made use of a large internal copper slug. Interestingly, the overall difference is just around 6 degrees (note that we compare heatsinks by the small interface die results at 100W only).

The other interface die illustrates slightly elevated temperatures over that of the TI-S8640L's sister heatsink the V86. Looking at this list of reference heatsinks we can see that this cooler from Thermal Integration is still pretty good, although not as much so as the V86 lets look at the results for the rise above ambient temperature.