Wow, a Thermaltake heatsink that doesn't look half bad!

[FragTek]

Since I'm ending up building 2 rigs I had to buy an extra heatsink so I decided to get something that looked better than what's in the computer now which is a thick solid aluminum crap cooler you can buy for $3.99 at any computer etailer.

Because of the fact that this is a s478 setup, my overall heatsink options were fairly limited from what I could tell looking at my list of choices on Newegg. I finally ended up going with.... don't cringe... a Thermaltake TR2-M12.

Main reasoning for this choice was it's price, not bad at $20, low profile for the new case, and it's all copper construction. I didn't really know what to expect from quality wise from the pictures. Well it came in today and I'm inspecting it now, looks pretty darn good! It's a heavy little sucker which is good, lots of copper mass and super thin copper fins.

From first inspection I believe it will do the trick quite nicely, specially for the price. The Newegg reviews were good as well, which doesn't really say much as the people that comment on producs at the egg are friggin' morons.

Just thought I'd let you know that I think I may have found a cooler from TT that doesn't look like utter garbage for the price

 

[Ham]

80mm?

Replace the fan and you may be onto a winner.

On an off topic note. What you think of the 478 mount frag? I found it a total pita... Made a totaly custom mount for the phase.

 

[FragTek]

80mm?

Replace the fan and you may be onto a winner.

On an off topic note. What you think of the 478 mount frag? I found it a total pita... Made a totaly custom mount for the phase.

478 mount is a total piece of crap. Then again so is 775... Why everyone couldn't stick with an A64 style mount anchored at all 4 corners is beyond me. Best mounting system ever IMO.

 

[nathan]

think socket A was the worst ever, people used to always slip with the flatheaded screwdriver straight through the motherboard

 

[nunzio]

think socket A was the worst ever, people used to always slip with the flatheaded screwdriver straight through the motherboard

I did that

Motherboard worked fine afterwards as well!

 

[FragTek]

Done that on a few occasions, I even popped a small little transistor off one time, board still worked!

 

[Ham]

See if u made a hole in or knocked off anything on a modren mobo you'd be buggered. Stupid things are so delicate now

 

[Rastalovich]

think socket A was the worst ever, people used to always slip with the flatheaded screwdriver straight through the motherboard

omg I get scared I`m gonna do that every time, not done it yet tho.

 

[MikeEnIke]

Heh, indeed, always scared of doing that. Hence the reason that I'll be dropping my e6600 into a new system sometimes soon , well not the reason, but it doesn't hurt