Received the Golden Gate / Gladiator in Mail today.

[Plat]

Good news. I recieved it today and it was indeed the Gladiator, well it looked identical, felt the same. the finish on the bottom wasn't quite the same as the one on the OCZ but that could just have been this batch. i'll probably lap it later when i get around to it.

the 27 cfm fan is wow, nice. quiet. they have it sucking out instead of blowing down. i'm probably gonna put a hole in side of my case where i can draw air straight from outside and send it directly to hs so i'll probably change direction of hs fan.

anyway, i'm happy.

[Tambo]

me too! i'm thrilled with mine just from admiring it. haven't put it on the comp yet, but that'll come after i post this. just wanted to let the rest of you know this is the real deal and this can be had for such a great price. stock up now!

[Greybeard49]

Plat (Jul 05, 2001 12:48 p.m.):

the 27 cfm fan is wow, nice. quiet. they have it sucking out instead of blowing down. i'm probably gonna put a hole in side of my case where i can draw air straight from outside and send it directly to hs so i'll probably change direction of hs fan.
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I just received mine also. I'm impressed with both the service and the heatsink. Plat, you better take a second look at the air direction. I held my hand over the fan and also thought the air was up but not much air but that is only because it is not blowing up. If you put a piece of paper over the top of the fan you will see it is blowing down and out the sides. The pc cooling label on the fan is showing out.
With a coolmaster on my unit I can't wait to get some relief from these 50C + temps.

[el]

man mine isn't here yet :( do you really need to lap the bottom? I guess I will just have to wait and see.

[Plat]

well

i haven't lapped it yet and i'm getting good temps. in the 47-49 celsius range for 1.0 ghz @1.2 ghz. not bad considering that's what i was gettin w/ my WBK38 w/ the delta and the SK6 w/ delta didn't do a lot better.

eventually i'm going to try and oc this think back to 1.33 which is max i'm able to get out of it.

Here's an idea tho, i'm going to pvc the hs to the side of my case, cut a hole it it and put a 92mm fan in the hole to blow air directly from the outside of case to my hs. probably won't do it right away tho. sounds like a project no?

your right it may be blowing down.

[Blue Jester_2112]

Got mine today too, very nice service. I ordered tuesday and it was sitting on the kitchen counter when I got home from work today. The bottom definately needs to be lapped but I probably would have done that anyway.

[WyrmMaster]

I got mine today aswell, very impressed with the websight and, im happy with the heatsink to. I got the delta on it, but with my new baybus i can run it at 7v and get better temps than with my fop32.

[Bender]

Hey sounds good. I just ordered one a few minutes ago for my brothers duron system. He is running his 600@950 1.85v with a chrome orb and no case cooling. I want to get him up to a gig and I bet the Golden Gate will do the trick along with 2 case fans.

[Sohryu Asuka Langley]

I was wondering if someone could get another one (w/delta fan) and ship it to australia for me. Ill international money ordar pay for it. I dont like their policy for international orders, sorry

icq me: 26477175, email: asuka@evangelion.com

Im after a replacement for my FOP32-1 and this seems good. Charge a middleman fee if you want to, im after the heatsink!

[Mango]

Is that one of the Gold Plated ones?
If so i got one cooling me tbird @ 1460 ( KT7 Motherboatd maxed out)
It geos 43-51C this depends on room temp and load, at the moment its like 27C room temp, too hot for me.
BTW I stuck on one of the Black label Fans, there Noisy! BUT YOU GET USED TO IT AFTER A WHILE.

[stompah]

Sohryu Asuka Langley (Jul 06, 2001 03:35 a.m.):
I was wondering if someone could get another one (w/delta fan) and ship it to australia for me. Ill international money ordar pay for it. I dont like their policy for international orders, sorry

icq me: 26477175, email: asuka@evangelion.com

Im after a replacement for my FOP32-1 and this seems good. Charge a middleman fee if you want to, im after the heatsink!
Yeah sure why not I just ordered an Alpha pal6035 on 7/2 and came on 7/5 I wanted an excuse to order the Gladiator and this pushes me over the edge ;-) the only question is how much international shipping is?

AIM me @ stompah77 or email me

stompah (stompah77@aol.com) Let me know if nobody has already agreed to it.

[Plat]

ya.

i already agreed and ordered one :).

gotta get up early in the morning. :)

[Celemine1Gig]

Hi guys,

does anybody know if they ship international or only to the US?????
I live in Germany and would like to order 3 Gladiators for me and my friends because this cooler is not available in Germany.

[Celemine1Gig]

Just for Info, I already emailed them, but didn't get an answer!
I couldn't find any detailed information on shipping on there site.

[FishDog3]

I was wondering what the diffrences were between the golden gate sh with the high cfm and the one with the low cfm, how big a diffrence does it make in temps and in noise.

fd

[Blue Jester_2112]

Well, I couldn't say for sure since I haven't used mine yet, but I would say that the gladiator would benifit more from a higher cfm fan than most HS' would. With such thin fins placed so closely together the more air you can force down between them the better. From what I've read it's a great cooler with the lower cfm fan and with the delta I would imagine it would be even better. I bought mine with the Delta, it's loud but you get used to it. If you don't like the noise it'll work great with the other fan.

[OnDborder]

So it would be better to "suck" with a 38cfm delta fan?


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[FishDog3]

I really wish I had an idea in my head of how loud it will be, oh well i'll deal with it.



OnDborder (Jul 06, 2001 03:35 p.m.):
So it would be better to "suck" with a 38cfm delta fan?

I have heard that you get coolest temps with the fan blowing air down over the hs and cpu, I would be willing to bet that the air that is pulled into the fan this way is just a little cooler than the air coming off the hot mobo if the fan were to be placed so that it was sucking air through the hs.

just a guess.

fd

[Plat]

ondborder

this is really something you just have to suck and be a man about. try it yourself. eveyone has different results with this. i personally had my best results pulling air off the HS, but that was when i had a blowhole on top of my case etc, now the airflow in my case is different and i seem to do better blowing air over the HS.

experiment, that's what OC'ing is all about and you are in the OC'ing forum right?

[piffdog]

where are you guys getting those glaciators from? i amreally interested in finding out.
-piffer

[WyrmMaster]

Its not the Glaciator, its the Gladiator, with a D not a C. Its not quit as good, but its still a good heatsink. We are talking about www.svcompucycle.com , they have a great price on it.

[piffdog]

It certainly doesnt look like the glaciator, but it is a tremendously good price on a all copper hsf!!

[Cowtown]

I am really interested in one of these units as well. I can't for the life of me find any international shipping information and my email from two days ago is still left unanswered. If anyone here finds out, post it so we can all take advantage of it!

Thanks,

Shawn

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

The Gladiator benifets greatly w/ a higher output fan.cluboverclocker review and comparism w/ the delta fan. (http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/heatsinks/ocz/ocz_gladiator/index.htm)

[Plat]

word to the wise.

cluboverclocker.com is one of the reasons why the OCZ Gladiator had such a bad name.

just a bit of history, see the link to The Overclockerz Store. that's the site that used to be OCZ. Apparently, cluboverclocker.com and OCZ had the same owner. seemed that there were like 3 or 4 different review sites, ( I can't remember all of them) that were all owned by the same owner and they all gave OCZ products (you guessed it, GLOWING REPORTS). well, obviously this isn't good business practice.

anyway, my point is, I love this HS. I personally think it is a TOP tier cooler, i also don't think it's as good as cluboverclocker says it is. Take this review with a grain of salt.

notice the prominence of advertising for The Overclockerz Store.

[Amedeo602]

I ordered mine a couple days ago and it should be here early next week....hopefully it's good as everyone says it is....

[anarki_gr]

it would be nice if someone could post some pics of the gladiator. i'm thinking of ordering it together with my new athlon system too since everyone says it's so good.

[el]

Well Shadow moved the original post to the Cyber deals! I already linked to the overclockers.com review and I think most of the question are answered in the original post!
I got mine and it is blowing down and whisper quiet!

needs lapping!

Are the deltas really coming with this heatsink or is it another powerful fan?
charged me 3.99 shipping and US mail had sticker for 4.35! nice vendor to ship for more than he is charging.

[Mord-Sith]

wow they have some great deals

[Paul -The Mad Hatter]

Plat (Jul 07, 2001 06:09 a.m.):
word to the wise.

cluboverclocker.com is one of the reasons why the OCZ Gladiator had such a bad name.

just a bit of history, see the link to The Overclockerz Store. that's the site that used to be OCZ. Apparently, cluboverclocker.com and OCZ had the same owner. seemed that there were like 3 or 4 different review sites, ( I can't remember all of them) that were all owned by the same owner and they all gave OCZ products (you guessed it, GLOWING REPORTS). well, obviously this isn't good business practice.

anyway, my point is, I love this HS. I personally think it is a TOP tier cooler, i also don't think it's as good as cluboverclocker says it is. Take this review with a grain of salt.

notice the prominence of advertising for The Overclockerz Store.

I didn't know that about the websites.

I also have the ocz gladiator hs and love it as well! When i get the extra money i'm buying a 60mm to 80mm adapter and slapping the 65cfm 8mm delta on it ;D then that thing will be just about the best hsf there is :-)

[Blue Jester_2112]

FishDog3 (Jul 06, 2001 05:41 p.m.):
I really wish I had an idea in my head of how loud it will be, oh well i'll deal with it.


Well...the closest thing I could compare the sound too would be a hair dryer. It's loud, but the case muffles it a bit and you get used to it pretty quick. To be honest it doesn't bother me at all, it's the 120 cfm fans I have pulling air in and pushing air out that get to me after awhile =]

[$o_dope]

Celemine1Gig (Jul 06, 2001 12:20 p.m.):
Just for Info, I already emailed them, but didn't get an answer!
I couldn't find any detailed information on shipping on there site.


I also emailed svc before this post was ever born. I guess they don't like to ship overseas. I see they do list Hawaii in shipping and that's where I am at, but I don't know, they might make me pay $20 for shipping and that's the going rate for shipping anything down here. I'll prolly give it crack and see what pop's up in the end of transaction.

[outhouse]

I ordered my Gladiator Thursday night when i went to pick up my mail Saturday afternoon it had already come in :) they do need lapping as other post have suggested, it was a shame they were out of AS-2 i was really wanting to try that stuff. I have not tried mine yet because I got the Delta with it and after lapping now i'm doing the silicone and Pencil trick to help quiet it down some and my silicone is still wet, tomorrow night or should i say Sunday night i will post my results as far as the difference between my coolermaster and the Gladiator since my p31g does not run hot i dont excpect a big difference hopefully i will get the 2 or 3C i'm wishing for.

[$o_dope]

Dope! I trully stand corrected and got my response I've been waiting for. People who live in Hawaii and Alaska also have the flat rate $3.99 shipping deal. Cool, I'm gonna bust my cc out and order.

[FishDog3]

outhouse (Jul 08, 2001 01:59 a.m.):
i'm doing the silicone and Pencil trick to help quiet it down some

What is this and where can i read about it?

fd

[outhouse]

check the tips section [in cooling section HSF] its in there and it works great i can hear it a little but not like it was, i did not use the tape method i did the 4 drops of silicone in the corners with balsa wood a little smaller then pencils once that was dry i put silicone all the way around the to seal the air i let the silicone dry and i did one side at a time, there was some openings in the shroud on each side of the HS and i used a small piece of black tape to fill the space and then siliconed over that and so far no complaints, once you read the article and look at this HSF you will see why i did not use the tape method as there is not much space for the tape to stick to on the shroud on two sides, also if air leaks in between the fan and shroud it makes more noise so i sealed everthing up tight and now its quiet and i'm getting good results ambient temp 27C and CPU temp is running in between 29 and 30C.

goodluck