Thermaltake Jungle 512 Heatsink

I used Intel’s heatsink provided with my retail Pentium 4 2.8GHz to compare against this heatsink. I initially ran the heatsink with the generic thermal compound provided but when I got high temperatures I thought that could have been part of the reason. I removed the thermal compound it came with and replaced it with Arctic Silver 5 but that didn’t change things much. I then tried reseating the heatsink many times again with no significant change in results. After trying all that I gave into the idea that it might just be the motherboard reporting incorrectly. So I switched the motherboard to an Albatron PX915G Pro and still got very similar results. I again reseated the heatsink a few times on the Albatron board and used Arctic Silver 5 which didn’t change anything. As you can see from the graph below the idle temperature with the Jungle512 is 48 degrees while the Intel reference heatsink is a degree lower. After bringing the processor to 100% utilization the temperature was 62 degrees with the Intel heatsink being 2 degrees lower. Not only were the temperatures very high but the fan is very loud, much louder than the Intel heatsink.

Conclusion:
I was really expecting more from this heatsink and am quite disappointed with its performance. At first I thought there was something wrong on my end of things but after reseating the heatsink many times, using Arctic Silver 5, and testing on two motherboards I really don’t think there was. Also getting better results from the Intel heatsink which uses an almost identical design I really feel the Jungle512 is at fault. There really isn’t much more than I could have done that I didn’t try. Every time I applied the heatsink I got good contact and with both motherboards the results were almost identical. I personally don’t like is fan noise and this fan is very loud. In the past I have dealt with Delta’s to get really good temperatures but even those good temperatures were not worth it after a while. Not only did get bad temperatures but I got a loud fan with it! Being that there are so few heatsinks on out right now Thermaltake really had a chance to take hold of this market but I don’t think that will be happening. With this review finished I would suggest that you look for a different heatsink or you will probably be disappointed like I am. I really dislike giving negative reviews on products that generous companies send me, however I refuse to present anything as good when it isn’t. To do so would defeat the whole purpose of running this site. Taking everything into consideration I am going to give this heatsink a 4/10 which is quite poor. I would like to thank Thermaltake for making this review possible.

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