Tocools Crown Heatsink From All
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The Fan:
The larger fan is made
by Delta and draws 0.48A so
it should be okay on most motherboards current wise. To play it safe it
is just as easy to hook up the fan via
a Molex pass through cable and connect it up to the main
power. The fans on both sets of heatsink are held in place by
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Heatsink Top: With
19 fins machined from a solid block of aluminum the thermal properties of the aluminum
should be very uniform. Each fin measures 1mm thick, and is spaced 2mm apart from one
another. At first glance the Tocools Crown employs a pretty standard cooling method. The
real trick happens where the fins make contact with the base
of the heatsink. Rather then just meeting the base plate at 90 degrees,
the base angles up at the center to form a
peek. |
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Side A: The side profile of the heatsink is quite
plain except for the extra cutouts on the edges of each
fin. The extra surface area can't hurt, and since the heatsink is
largely cut from a solid block the outside faces are smooth. Shown is the
clip which broke off during installation. The fan is held in place with wires and
this works well. The mounting clip really ought to be redesigned and redone.
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Side B: The business side of the Crown looks
good, and works well. Even though the
heatsink is hampered by a less than ideal clip, the underlying heatsink is really well
done, and works well for an extrusion. Note how the metal clips lock
into the fins and hold the 25mm thick fan in place. Each of those
side cut-outs is about 4mm in height. |
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Heatsink Base:
Like the Zalman heatsinks the base is very well finished
(though not as razor sharp) and provides an excellent place to mount any
processor to. I'm frankly getting a bit tired of commenting on poorly finished
bases, so it was great to see that the Tocools engineers had
gotten things right here. The base is undercut by 2mm to
provide socket cam arm clearance. |