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Date Posted: April 29, 2002
Installation
The installation of the CAK-II38 went very easily as the shroud/fan was already connected to the heatsink and the 3-pin to 4-pin/RPM monitor was also already connected. Apart from finding the one missing pin that holds the shroud on everything else was easy, remove the thermal pad, apply the AS3 and then put it on the CPU.
The clipping mechanism has really improved over the FOP series of heatsinks. With those heatsinks it was really necessary to use both a screwdriver and a pair of pliers to get the clip over the socket slugs. With the CAK-II this has been improved to just needing a flat head screwdriver to clip it to the socket slugs, as you can see from the picture in the previous pages' pictures. Of the heatsinks I have I'd rate it slightly behind the Dragon Orb 3 for installation due to the fact that while they are equally easy to install, the Dragon Orb 3 uses all six socket slugs while the CAK-II only uses two.
One very good thing about post installation of this heatsink is that it is fairly short, and unlike my DO3 it will allow me to place my motherboard tray back in my case (InWin Q500) without having to remove the fan.
Test Setup
All testing was done on the following three processor speeds:
| CPU: |
AMD Athlon 1GHz @ 1.75v - 51.4 Watts |
AMD Athlon 1.2GHz @ 1.94v - 75.8 Watts |
Intel Celeron II 850 @ 1.75v - 23.5 Watts |
| Motherboard: |
Abit KT7-RAID BIOS 64
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Gigabyte 6OXET-C |
| Memory: |
256MB PC-133 @ 2-2-2 |
| Hard Drives: |
20GB Quantum LM, 40GB Maxtor
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| Sound Card: |
Sound Blaster X-Gamer 5.1 |
| Operating System: |
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 2 |
| Front Side Bus |
100MHz(200MHz DDR) |
100MHz FSB |
| Video Cards: |
Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro II) |
| Coolers: |
Thermal Take Dragon Orb 3 (7000RPM); Global Win FOP-38 (7000RPM); Global Win CAK-II 38 (7500RPM); Global Win CAK-II "32" (5500RPM) |
The Test systems/coolers looked like this:
The tests were run directly after bootup, and then the processors were allowed to cool for approximately 15 minutes. Sisoft Sandra 2002's burn in test was used with 23 repetitions of CPU Arithmetic and Multi-Media benchmarks being run. Two tests were done for each speed, as follows, 1GHz then 1.2GHz then 1GHz and lastly 1.2GHz. If the temperatures were off more than a degree between both tests a third test was run and the two closest temperatures were used.
The Athlon's used the socket thermometer to read the temperatures, while the Celeron used its more accurate internal thermal probe to read the temperature, both systems used MBM 5.1.0.2 to tell the temperatures from the CPU's. Room temperature was measured using a Radio Shack Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Dual Display and was never more than 0.2°C off stated room temperatures.
Sound levels were measured using a Radio Shack Digital Sound Level Meter from 1 meter away from the heatsink/fan. The only other fan running at that time was the Enermax power supply fan.
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