Vigor Gaming's Active TEC CPU HS!

[jcw122]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1895934,00.asp

Seems pretty innovative, but the product itself sucks, even the price is too much.

 

[Avg]

From the review it just can't take the amount of heat output when overclocked and ends up performing worst then the stock AMD heatsink.

 

[millhouse]

Man that thing gets awesome idle temps, but the load temps is what killed the rating. Thats just an aweful load temp.

It'd be cool to mod one of those TECs onto an SI-120 or something if possible, along with a monster fan.

 

[Seanohue]

The temp control is a good idea, I'd buy a 350W pelt in a heartbeat if I could keep it just above ambient.

 

[Aslan]

Bleh, it appears that they just added a peltier to a cheap heatsink and jacked up the price. If it can't even outperform a stock heatsink when OC'ed at load, what's the point...

 

[speed bump]

That pelt is just way to small for modern CPUs.

 

[subtotal]

i hope nobody is dumb enough to buy it...

 

[Ven0m]

Pelts were good for overclocking CPUs like Celeron 300. Today they could be eventually used for low-end graphics cards. If you want to go extreme - try bong or phase change. Pelt coolers are simply wrong. Perhaps it'll chnage when "next gen pelts" are out, but I heard about them long time ago and so far - no info about them appearing in stores.

 

[Max0r]

Pelts were good for overclocking CPUs like Celeron 300. Today they could be eventually used for low-end graphics cards. If you want to go extreme - try bong or phase change. Pelt coolers are simply wrong. Perhaps it'll chnage when "next gen pelts" are out, but I heard about them long time ago and so far - no info about them appearing in stores.

Yea too much power consumption to cool the uberclocked latest CPUs.