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I should be getting my Asus Board today. I can take a picture for you guys if you want? I already own the Scythe Kozuti!
And it was around the Low 30~35 price wise.
It might, here some pics that i gather while reseaching a couple of weeks ago.
Pls post if you can, as even though the pictures seems to show it does, it would be great to see it with a GPU mounted.I should be getting my Asus Board today. I can take a picture for you guys if you want? I already own the Scythe Kozuti!
It might, here some pics that i gather while reseaching a couple of weeks ago.
Pls post if you can, as even though the pictures seems to show it does, it would be great to see it with a GPU mounted.
It might, here some pics that i gather while reseaching a couple of weeks ago.
Pls post if you can, as even though the pictures seems to show it does, it would be great to see it with a GPU mounted.
Sry cant help you much there, the pics were taken from PCWorld.fr The new low profile cooler Scythe in case you want to ask there. I just posted it as fr500 was wondering if it would fit with the PCIe right next to the socket.
The fan appears to be secured by piano wire and shouldn't be difficult to yank it out and flip it.
I had tried posting a long update yesterday but for some reason it didn't take when I hit "submit" and disappeared. So this one's probably going to be a lot shorter
I pretty much gave up on using the 80mm fan on the Kozuti for a few reasons. One is that it doesn't seem to work with the fan pointed upwards. The reason being is that there's a "hump" for lack of a better term in the center opposite the CPU core. Pointing the fan upwards causes that hump to push on the center of the fan stopping the blades from moving. Also, like the few reviews I've found have said, it's loud at full speed.
Regardless, for my uses, I'm going for max overclock in an SG05 which works a lot better with the fan pointed up, pulling the heat off the CPU and exhausing it through the PSU and a second side fan. So for me, the stock fan in stock config wasn't going to work out.
Anyway, my testing was done with an i5 750 overclocked to 3.8GHz with 1.312v. Fan used on both was a 120mm Scythe Flex F fan (1600RPM). Intel Burn Test - Standard config to test CPU and RAM for 5 passes. Motherboard was outside of the case for all testing.
The Kozuti did rather well, but did hit 80C on the fifth pass where the Samuel-17 hit 75C. Overall the Samuel always beat out the Kozuti by around 5C. Still with the Kozuti being much lighter, it's pretty impressive.
In the end though, I did go back to the Samuel-17 not just because it cooled better but because it has the added bonus of cooling the motherboard chipset (or RAM depending on how you have it oriented).
Also there were a couple issues I had with the Kozuti, like not being able to use taller RAM. Also, the fan clip idea for mounting a 120mm wouldn't work if the PCI-e is in use because the design of the heatsink is a typical centered approach were the fins extend equally on all four side of the CPU base. Since the fins are already so close to the PCI-e slot, the clips themselves (on top of the fan) would overlap the slot. You could rig it to stay some other way, but you end up losing the size advantage it has over the Samuel anyway so why not just use that instead? Plus, as I mentioned earlier, the Samuel cools my chipset as well do to it's off centered design of the fins / fan mount.
That's not to say it's not a good heatsink. I was pretty impressed with it's performance for being so small and light. And in an HTPC or a light overclocking rig with space concerns it works great. Especially for being only ~$30 and not having to buy a fan. But since that's not what I'm looking for, I didn't test that. I had it on a i5 661 overclocked lightly to 4.0GHz briefly and thought it did pretty well with temps, but I forgot to write the results down... Oops
As a side note, I'm not sure if other people's Samuels are like this or if it's just mine, but the base isn't completely flat and finished to a shine. There are noticable grooves. Put a drop of Isopropyl Alcohol on it and you can see it spread in a line vs in a circle if it was 100% flat. As such, thermal paste tends to also spread along those grooves. So, in order to get a good mount and good performance out of it I had to mount it with the heatpipes to the right (next to the RAM). This causes the thermal paste to spread vertically across the CPU cores. I get even better results with the X-method of applying thermal paste allowing it to spread a little more horizontally as well.
