Arctic Cooling Copper Lite CPU heat sink - Temperatures
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Time to see what this cooler is really made of. I first set the CPU to 166*12 for roughly 2.0 GHz.
The Copper Lite did a very good job with this speed. It kept the temperatures below 50 on load. In the next test I bumped the speed up to 2.5 GHz, 200 FSB and 12.5 multiplier.
The idle and load temperatures are only five degrees different from the earlier readings, but that is getting high. While prime95 didn’t cause the CPU to overheat and lock up, playing games did. I experienced crashes, and it finally froze while playing games at this speed. While it was running at a very high speed, it should still be able to handle these speeds, but it couldn't.
Conclusion
The Copper Lite does a good job cooling the CPU. I ended up quite impressed with the overall performance. I have used other coolers that were bigger and heavier, and they didn’t perform any better. It continues Arctic Cooling’s silent, but cool ideas. This cooler did much better than the last cooler I reviewed, but Pentium 4s do tend to run hotter and can operate at higher temperatures. At the higher speeds, this cooler failed. I am still unable to pick up a reading on how loud it is, as it is under the ambient level of the room. With a retail price of $19, it is a cheap and good solution for cooling the CPU and providing no additional noise.
This cooler is not without problems. The mounting brackets are a mess. It took me 30 minutes to get this cooler on. The directions aren’t very clear on how to put it on. The brackets are designed to prevent a problem I have never had, and I move my PC quite frequently. If you don’t have a high end socket A processor, and you aren’t going to be overclocking heavily, then you can get away with this. If you plan to overclock your processors, and stress them, as you would for gaming, then I would look at another cooler.
I would like to thank Scythe-USA for generously providing DevHardware with this review sample. If you have any questions you may visit the forums or contact Scythe-USA.
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