Real Men Use Butterfly Heatsinks: Apack ZeroTherm BTF80&

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:31 pm

Kaizer wrote:On the topic of design, I would say that the Zerotherms are no where as feminine as the Vanessa L and S-Type heatsinks.

L-Type: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... omp_6.html

S-Type: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cooler ... omp_3.html

Wrong. Apparently the Titan Vanessa is not feminine, it's sexy.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:14 pm

I'm thinking a de-framed fan on a Velcro pad reinforced with zip ties.

djkest · Post by **djkest** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:36 pm

The all-copper one is selling for $29.99 after rebate at newegg. This puts it as the BEST cooler for $30 or less I'm thinking.

protellect · Post by **protellect** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:10 pm

I've been really happy with mine, its hella-quiet.

pics in sig if you're bored/curious.

truckman · Post by **truckman** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:34 am

I using a BTF90 to cool the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane CPU in my newly-upgraded MythTV PVR. Other than when the BIOS momentarily spins the fan up to full speed during POST, I can't hear the fan over the idle noise from the drives at the default BIOS low fan speed setting. Even so, the cooling is total overkill. At the current ~20C ambient temperature, the CPU is idling at 28C. I've seen the CPU temperature get all the way up to 34C during commercial flagging when the room was a couple degrees warmer.

When I find some spare time, I'll see if I can slow the fan down more in the BIOS.

Sizzle · Post by **Sizzle** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:19 am

Running the BTF95 passive in my wife's system. Core 2 Duo 6420, works good.

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