Saturday, October 18th 2008
Red Sea LGA-1366 Version Released
The entry of the LGA-1366 socket Intel Core i7 processors puts a whole section of the industry into business: compatible motherboards, compliant memory kits, and CPU coolers to name some. Overclocker 3 PC Cooler, a relatively unknown brand to the west, that concentrates on Asian markets, has released an LGA-1366 compatible variant of the Red Sea cooler.
While not meant to be an extreme-level cooler, the Red Sea is intended to be an inexpensive stock-cooler replacement, with some overclocking thrown in. The cooler consists of a contact block, in which two heatpipes make direct contact with the CPU. The heatpipes go through 44 aluminum fins. These fins are dimpled, to effectively increase their surface-area of dissipation. The cooler uses push-clip mechanism for motherboard retention.
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While not meant to be an extreme-level cooler, the Red Sea is intended to be an inexpensive stock-cooler replacement, with some overclocking thrown in. The cooler consists of a contact block, in which two heatpipes make direct contact with the CPU. The heatpipes go through 44 aluminum fins. These fins are dimpled, to effectively increase their surface-area of dissipation. The cooler uses push-clip mechanism for motherboard retention.
30 Comments on Red Sea LGA-1366 Version Released
Pun intended!
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this cooler would be even cooler if it had two more heatpipes alongside the ones on there already.... not hdt though... like a hybrid cooler haha...
I have the 550W (120mm fan) and it's used extensively. No V sagging or overheating.
I'm sure they've had bad batches, but I keep on using the ones with good reviews on the egg and haven't had a problem.
About the coolers, for the 16 bucks I paid (free shipping I believe), it's awesome.
Anyways, the Overclocker 3 PC Coolers are inexpensive while efficient.:toast:
Had pretty good experience with them.
Guys stop bitching about the push pins. They're enough to hold down the cooler while providing enough mounting pressure. Its a rather small cooler anyway, so a bolt thru is somewhat overkill in this case. Uh... there is a backplate for the Zalman CNPS7000, unless you're talking about the 478 mounting. No thats what you call going backwards because the bracket is not as sturdy as a bolt thru.
This was an early 939 board.
btw. that base finish looks much better than in any DHT cooler to date.
The best design approach for a direct contact heat pipe cooler IMO is to have the contact surface (pipes) physically touching one another (no gaps) and have enough of them to cover the heat spreader of a modern CPU completely. In order for the heat pipes to make contact with each other they would need to touch at their diameter. In order for the heat pipes to touch the cooling surface of the CPU heat spreader with no gaps the heat pipes would have to be cut all the way down to its contact point with each other (diameter). So you would get half a pipe at the point of contact and it would be ideal to add mass in thermal contact at this point on the other side of the pipes which is a common technique anyway.
Most of what I have seen with respect to direct heat pipe coolers just looks like sloppy design or sloppy implementation. Even if they work well or well enough they could be made better.
This Red Sea cooler looks a little like a Thermaltake cooler to me. Perhaps I’m just being thrown off a bit by the color scheme of the fan but sure it looks a bit like a Rosewill too.
Funny how the Red Sea Cooler and the ThermalRight Ultra were both mounted on an ASUS P6T Deluxe for its photo shoot. Perhaps the P6T Deluxe is in abundance and ready for launch in mass and the other boards are not? Hummmmmm,....
Notice I didn’t say anything about the Push-pins ;)
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