HSF's Compared -- Complete study

[mbigna]

I don't believe this link has been posted here before, but I have found a fairly comprehensive article at http://www.extremeoverclocking.com. The direct link is here:
http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/cooling/HS_Comparison_11-01_1.html

About a dozen HSF's are tested and compared.

Hopefully this will be helpful to some. I hope that linking to other forums is not taboo here.

[Thelemac]

It's nice...but their testing methods leave something to be desired. They're fine for your home use, but if you're trying to show the differences between hsfs for people who are going to be paying good money for them, you need to be much more accurate.

Problems:

Temp on side of core isn't extremely accurate...the AMD approved method is the one that Joe uses. Says so in thier techdocs.

You can't hope to keep the ambient temp the same. You have to eliminate that as a variable by measuring it...not really another way to do that accurately.

[Colin]

Here (http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm) is one of the best HSF reviews I have seen. The C/Ws are much closer to reality than most of the tests I have found online.