douglar wrote on 2024-04-07, 03:08:I remember that trying to cool the 1400 was a challenge. I knew many people that damaged the cpu trying to remove or install a […]
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I remember that trying to cool the 1400 was a challenge. I knew many people that damaged the cpu trying to remove or install a cooler. I had one friend who powered up his system with out a cooler, roasted the chip before you could say “warranty voided”, and then touched it, burning the mirror image of the die into his thumb.
Anyway, I had a Swiftech MC462 at that time. The less I fussed with it, the happier I was, becuase I felt like there was too high a chance of damaging the die every time I messed with it.
Athlon Coolers reviewed March 2001:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/730
Nice heatsink… but it is a good example, what you shouldnt do, if you want use a smaller cfm fan. The first zalmans performed terribly, but the idea was great, and it was the key to create the first high performance but silent cpu coolers.
Anno I played a lot with the right water cooling radiator and fan setup, there was an optimal fin density, and if the radiator become too complex (too much pipe layers), the blowing setup was not optimal anymore, you had to create negative air pressure to ventillating the fins well.
I really liked the zalmans creativity, they had great ideas, and finally the fin design won, just they had to use the heatpipes. That was the point i gave up the water cooling design, we had good enough coolers for long time to cool down until 100-150 tdp watts. When they started these crazy 200-300 watt cpus and 300-400 watt gpus, that was the point, when i sold my pc, and bought a passive macbook air m1.
