Verax P11T From All Angles

The seven bladed impeller on this 20mm thick fan creates a small amount of airflow and practically zero noise. Compared to a traditional heatsink, the CAIRdB is pretty revolutionary - but it is important to keep in mind that this heatsink is only officially listed to support the Athlon 1.2GHz chips. Overclocking would not be a good idea, but use in a zero noise system might be just fine.The fan uses two NIRO ball bearings and connects to the motherboard via a 3-pin fan header which supports RPM monitoring.

Top: The heatsink is based on a very wide spacing of pins and uses a locking clip design to prevent shifting once installed on the processor. The extrusion is pretty simple and it is hard to say if it really ought be upgraded to something will a little more kick as that might affect airflow from this fan.

Heatsink Base:

The base has been polished pretty flat, but looks a bit rough in this picture. It came with a patch of thermal compound on it, which was removed for our test purposes.