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COOLINK Cool Armor2VS

Cooling/CPU Cooling by jmke @ 2003-11-12

Coolink has got an all copper Pentium 4 heatsink in its product line-up, we see if it?s worth a look or not, by putting it head to head with the Thermalright SP-94. Does the Coolink stand a chance? Read on to find out.

Introduction

Coolink copper based heatsink is the main subject of today's review. It is aimed at the budget-minded hardware enthusiast who's looking for the extra performance without having to pay a small fortune for it. Xtreme Tek Werkz provided us with a Coolink ARMORVS2 for testing.

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The Heatsink

Uses Pentium 4 default bracket for installation

Soldered copper fin and copper base

Designed for 80mm fan

Measurement: 90 x 90 x 44mm

Weight: 450g

Aluminium has been thrown overboard in the design of the heatsink, delivering superior heat transfer through the use of copper, it is not skived as we have seen in other heatsink (e.g. Coolermaster X-Dream SE), but the fins are soldered to the copper base. The result however is very impressive, and as you will see during our testing, provides a decent amount of cooling power.

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The Fan

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The included fan is a real powerhouse, at its lowest settings it is virtually silent but doesn't provide much airflow. Thanks to the speed adjustment knob you can turn it all the way up to 4600rpm, although it doesn't quite match a Delta or Vantec Tornado it still pushes a lot of air at the cost of silence.

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You'll also find some no-name thermal compound in the package, it is better then the TIM used by the default Intel cooler, and it spares you an extra trip to the hardware store!

The "gimmick" of this heatsink is of course the resemblance of the ARMOR-logo-Face finger guard on top of the FAN

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It’s nice touch and it will be hard for anyone to make a wrong guess about what CPU cooling you're using.

Let's take a closer look at the heatsink and see how it performs ->

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