I think it's quite clear from the various reports that the Glaciator just don't perform quite as well as some of the other designs out there. The evidence is quite overwhelming and quite frankly the argument that somehow the heatsink design can give a significantly higher MBM reading (consistently in comparison to a veriety of heatsinks over a wide range of mobo's) while actually cooling the chip better is pretty unbelievable. Further evidence is the fact that even on die temp monitoring is showing higher temps, Phil's theory that the analogue signal from the thermal diode can somehow be corrupted (and this corruption somehow makes the monitor read higher only when a Glaciator is installed !) is even harder to swallow.
The only factor that explains all the high MBM readings being reported is that the Glaciator just doesn’t cool as well as some of the other heatsinks. I can't grasp why people have not come to this rather obvious conclusion.
I'm not Glaciator bashing here, it looks like a well designed cooler, but when it comes to no compromise ultimate cooling it's clear it can't compete with the far noisier high air flow solutions offered by other manufacturers.
The only factor that explains all the high MBM readings being reported is that the Glaciator just doesn’t cool as well as some of the other heatsinks. I can't grasp why people have not come to this rather obvious conclusion.
I'm not Glaciator bashing here, it looks like a well designed cooler, but when it comes to no compromise ultimate cooling it's clear it can't compete with the far noisier high air flow solutions offered by other manufacturers.