Big Typhoon gets one last chance.

[Lazzer408]

First I'll explain the mounting hardware I used. It's pretty cut and dry from the pictures. The white spacers needed to have flats cut in there sides to fit in the holes the p4-style plastic clips were in. I knew they would be too long and I cut them down but they were still to long. I ended up not using them because they bottomed out on the nuts that held the screws in the mobo. I found some other spacers that don't actually go thru the hole in the bracket. They just push down on top of it.

Results:

Idle 35c (from 38c)
Load 59c (The BT was 66c and the BOII was 71?) someone remind me. It's in the thread somewhere.
System 45c (from 35c) This is from lack of airflow as both other coolers had the fans blowing down towards the board.

Scythe Fan Specs:
Dimensions: 120 x 120 x 25mm
Noise Level: 23.5dBA
Air Flow: 46.5CFM
Speed: 1,200rpm (±10%)

Had I known I was actually going to wind up reviewing these I'd be much more organized. I'd have a nice graph and whatnot. I'll be testing another fan that has a much higher cfm. Here are it's specs.

EDIT - Fan Results:

Idle 34c (from 35c)
Load 57c (from 59c)
System 40c (from 45c)

Specs:
Dimensions: 120×120×25mm
Noise Level: 43 dBA
Air Flow: 96.06 CFM
Speed: 2400 RPM

The faster fan is good for knocking off a few degrees. The extra cfm it creates seems to be doing a better job stiring the air around my case as the system temp dropped 5deg as well. Seeing any improvement from a faster fan tells me the heatpipes on this cooler are doing a much better job getting the heat off the CPU and to the fins. It's louder that's for sure. With the side cover on I can't hear it. The stock Scythe fan was just whisper if that.











Pretty close to those caps but it's not touching them.

[Lazzer408]

Edited. See above.

[POGE]

You call AS5 polish... why? AS5 is thermal compound and you are supposed to put a dab between your heatsink and cpu... not use it as "polish". Maybe your high temps are a result of improper thermal compound application?

[Lazzer408]

No I don't use AS5 as polish. lmao. Who said that?

[Lazzersgirl]

Lookin' good hun!

[Wile E]

Hey Laz, you think a push/pull fan arrangement might be worth something on that?

[Lazzer408]

Originally Posted by Wile E

Hey Laz, you think a push/pull fan arrangement might be worth something on that?

Maybe. The second fan I tested was 2x the cfm and only knocked off 2c. I don't think it would be worth the noise. It blows thru the fins fairly well with just one fan. I'm pretty impressed with this cooler. $42? How can you go wrong. I got my e6600 CPU to 3.6ghz @ 57c and doing that on air shows how well this cooler is working.

You know what this cooler really needs? A small fan at the base. It might help CPU temps but I would be after the airflow over the regs. With this monster cooler in the way there's not much airflow over the mobo. Temps on the mobo went up 10c with it.

[Wile E]

Well, at very least, a push/pull would allow you to use 2 slower and more silent fans for the same amount of performance. Every bit of silence helps as well, imo. lol

[Lazzer408]

Originally Posted by Wile E

Well, at very least, a push/pull would allow you to use 2 slower and more silent fans for the same amount of performance. Every bit of silence helps as well, imo. lol

Perhaps if they were parallel. Series fans (one in front of the other) won't increase cfm. It will increase pressure. Parallel fans (side by side) will increase cfm. Imagine a pipe with a 40cfm fan on each end. One is blowing 40cfm into the pipe and the other is exhausting 40cfm. No gain. If both fans were at one end of the pipe, both pushing 40cfm, you have twice as much air blowing in, 80cfm. The Infinity doesnt add much drag to the airflow so increasing pressure should help any. The fins are a straight and smooth.
Now. There is some logic to push/pull though. The sides of the fins are open and some of the airflow from the first fan does escape out the sides. The second fan would pull additional air in from the sides as well. So there -could- be a benifit. I don't have the room to test this. My rear case fans are very close to the Infinity. They could be pulling a bit already.