William (Jul 23, 2001 09:31 p.m.):
Overclockers.com got the results of the SK-6 with a .16 C/W and the Gladiator at a .23 C/W. Pretty clear difference there. Won't be a huge factor in Intel cooling, but thats a huge difference for AMD cpus and overall a huge difference.
To be honest with you, my readings match very closely with Joe, except for a few heatsinks. Let me give you an example :
1) Gladiator
My reading with Delta 38cfm = 0.21 C/W
Joe's reading with stock 36cfm fan = 0.23C/W
2) CAK 38
My reading = 0.24C/W
Joe's reading = 0.25 C/W
3) Vantec FCE62540D
My reading with Delta 38 = 0.30C/W
Joe's reading = 0.30C/W
The rest you can find here :
But for Glaciator and SK-6, there seems to be a big discrepancy. For Glaciator, I gotten 0.26C/W and 0.23C/W for SK-6. I am not doubting Joe's reading or method, but somewhere is very wrong as far Glaciator and SK6 is concern. But we will just leave it as it is.
But don't brush the Gladiator aside for SK-6. The Golden gate price is really a steal. We could not get this heatsink over here in Singapore (if we could, it will be hot), but no way it was way inferior compared to the SK-6. And don't forget that the fins surface area is also larger on the Gladiator, I have made a good comparison of them in my link above, so do take a look