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Verax P16 From All
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The Fan:
The seven bladed
impeller on this 25mm 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 overclocking would
not be a good idea, but use in a zero noise system should
be just fine. The fan uses two NIRO ball bearings
and is temperature controlled to run at 1600-3100RPM (20C-43C) depending on temperature. It connects to the
motherboard via a 3-pin fan header which supports RPM monitoring - but some
motherboards may report inaccurate readings. Motherboard Monitor 5
is supposed to be able to detect the correct value however.
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Top: The heatsink is based on a very wide
spacing of pins and uses four rubber anti vibration mounts to hold the fan
in place. The fan doesn't actually come in contact with the metal
of the heatsink, and this way, any vibrations which do occur are absorbed
by the rubber and not passed on to the rest of the
computer. The four metal clips rotate freely in a space with brass
bushings. |
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Side A: The fins on the extrusion
are all rather thick to what is the standard these days. However with
the relatively low amount of air flow that comes from the fan the spacing
is probably well suited. The little rubber feet which hold the fan in
place lock into small circular holes in the frame of the heatsink. The base
measures about 10mm thick and the fins range from 3.75mm - 1.5mm at the
tips. Fins are spaced ~3mm apart at the base. |
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Side B:
The side of
the heatsink has an assortment of cross cuts which help to increase
surface area and induce turbulence within the fin structure of the heatsink. The
clips are interesting, but they don't make me particularly comfortable for situations where the
case may get moved around frequently. |
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Heatsink Base:
The base is machined flat, and fairly smooth -
there were some slight machining ridges left on the sample we tested. With a Highflow 225-U thermal interface pad
already applied, extra thermal compound is not necessary. However, to keep our results
consistent, we removed the pad and tested with our standard ceramic-based thermal compound
from Coolingflow.com |
