Gigabyte Volar CPU heatsink review
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The fan is semi-transparent, the fins are pretty thick so they must be causing turbulence and noise -- and the fins could be "ringing". The fan is open framed and the heat sink seems to be fairly highly restrictive -- so a fair bit of air could be "escaping' out the sides and not flowing through the fins very effectively.
The fan is semi-transparent, the fins are pretty thick so they must be causing turbulence and noise -- and the fins could be "ringing". The fan is open framed and the heat sink seems to be fairly highly restrictive -- so a fair bit of air could be "escaping' out the sides and not flowing through the fins very effectively.
Nice review Devon, but Mike, your postscript really takes the review to the next level. With the postscript you:
- 1) emphasize the independence of your site,
2) remind readers of your connections and
3) question what's wrong with the industry.
there is another, more likely explanation: marketing dept got hold of the dBA figures and "massaged" them down to a more marketable 23dBA.The only explanations for this glaring discrepancy:
We have a very bad fan sample (though it doesn't sound obviously damaged).
Gigabyte engineers made those fan SPL measurements while it was in free air, not mounted on the heatsink.
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Gigabyte has two of the new leaning "120mm" HSFs. They chose to send the cheapie lower-performing unit to SPCR. Here is a review of the other unit.