How is the Jet Cool Premium CPU Cooler from Compusa?

[kenzhang]

I wanna buy one, but don't know if it's a good one. Any suggestion or opinion? Thanks.

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=285470

[meatpipe]

Had to buy one once on a Sunday. Worst cooler I've ever seen. You could do better blowing on the cpu yourself.... Temps were in the high fifties on a XP1800. Stock retail sink is much better.
Also, the clips bend really easy on this thing. You have to bend them back and you're not sure how much pressure you're putting on the cpu. Junk in my opinion.

[dreadlord79]

If you want a good CPU cooler go by the recommendations on the following link:
http://www.overclockers.com/articles373/
This has 43 CPU hs/f's in the list which should help you out on making a choice. The ones at top are of course the best. Hope this helps. :)

[Hoot]

I have read every HSF review that Joe C. has done since I started calling overclockers.com my home. These individual reviews have contributed to the rankings table mentioned above. I have the utmost respect for Joe as a reviewer. He goes to great lengths to make his efforts as scientifically correct as possible.

However, many, but not all of his reviews ran the HSF on a CPU running at stock speed and stock voltage. As an overclocker, I see a trapping in this process. There are many HSFs that perform adequately at modest wattages, such as those encountered running a CPU at the stock speed and stock voltage. When you overclock the CPU up to the top of its limit, it will generate more wattage. The c/w rating of many so-so HSFs is not a linear function. It deteriorates as you run more wattage through the HSF. I have run some myself here that deliver say, .30c/w at 70W (1.4G Tbird @ stock speed/volts), but when you overclock that same Tbird to 1540 @ 1.95V, which generates 100W of heat, that same HSFs capacity is overwhelmed and the c/w rises to .35 or .40

So, if you have your eye on a specific HSF, read the actual reviews on it, not just its ranking. Also, now that the Athlon XPs are out, we have the benefit of getting better temperature readings then ever before due to their internal thermal diode. Reviewers all over are scrambling to implement this feature in their HSF reviews. As they do, we will see more accurate temperature recording across the board. Whether they will pull the older HSFs back off the shelf and retest them remains to be seen. Be leary of rankings charts that mix older results obtained from external measuring devices and newer ones based upon the internal thermal diode in the same chart.

Hoot

[rivercom9]

What MB's implement the XP's internal diode?