Jeez, that’s a lot of info on one heatsink. They don’t really skimp on the details do they? Okay, so here’s my plan, I’m going to hook this thing up to my AMD setup and see what kind of heat dissipation we get. I’m going to run it under Idle load for half an hour as well as full load for half an hour. Here are the details on my test system:
- AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+ (Overclocked to 2.2Ghz)
- 4GB Samsung 6400 RAM (800Mhz)
- 1TB Seagate SATA HDD
- Corsair TX750 Power Supply (read our review)
- NZXT Beta Case (read our review)
Installation on my motherboard is fairly straight forward. Those push-pin clips, while not my favorite way of installing a CPU cooler, make things a little faster if you are in a hurry to get back to your everyday life. They were kind enough to throw in anything you would need to connect this to just about any Intel or AMD setup, along with extra wire clips for an additional fan. I don’t see the point in this unless you are going to run two fans on low speed for cooling and quiet. Running both fans on high would make your case sound like a Tigershark war jet. So everything is hooked up in a dirty hurry, mostly due to those push clips. I decided early on to go with Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste for all tests conducted here, fyi. Computer is back together, and everything looks good. Time to get to testing.
Aside from the Hyper TX3, I am also running heat tests on the Evercool Transformer 6 and a stock AMD cooler as well. After a few hours of testing, idling, and loading, here were the results of the trials:
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CoolerMaster Hyper TX3 Performance Test
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During the idle conditions, where I simply let the PC sit while it ran, I got pretty close to the same temperature on all fronts. The only one that was a different was the Stock AMD, which was higher, of course. The load stage, where I ran Bioshock as well as couple of background programs for the duration of a half an hour, gave us a variety of temperatures. While the Hyper TX3 and Transformer 6 were within a mere 3 degrees of each other, the Stock AMD was shamefully at least 9 degrees higher than either of the other test subjects. Tsk, tsk, AMD. You guys can do better than that.
On the next page we render our verdict…
