Passive Cooling Heatsinks and the Heatlane Zen - Testing and Results

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When I had installed my TS Heatronics HCU-1000, one of the most popular last-generation passive coolers, I was expecting to have to add a fan near the heatsink to cool my processor. I’m glad that this was not the case. The heatsink allowed me to run my processor entirely passive, while maintaining a temperature below the maximum operating temperature. The air was considerably hot around the heatsinks fins. This got me to thinking that the aid of a fan placed directly on the heatsink should be able to run my processor considerably cooler, and possibly achieve higher overclocks.

Test Bed

• Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz @ 18x166, 1.4v
• Abit AI7
• 2x512MB Twinmos memory 1:1 2225 3.0v
• ATI 9800 Pro. Arctic Cooling Silencer heatsink.
• 80CFM 120mm fan 12v

Adding a 120mm fan to the passive cooler greatly decreases the temperature of an overclocked processor. Temperatures remain below the maximum operating temperature of my processor.

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