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Spire Cooling Solutions KestrelKing V

Author:	Tyler Curry
Date:	2005.12.08
Topic:	Cooling
Provider:	Spire Cooling Solutions
Manufacturer:	Spire Cooling Solutions

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This KestrelKing V cooler isn't the most exciting cooler around but you can't expect much for 10.99 now can you. It is your basic aluminum cooler with a copper core which includes a 77mm diamond shaped fan. The package includes a retention bracket for socket 939 boards, a little manual and even some Fanner Group 420 thermal compound. You're good to go with this package for some 3rd party cooling. Here are the specifications according to the Spire Cooling Solutions website.

Socket 754 / 940 / 939 Cooling kit

Dimensions

Heat sink :	70×55×43 mm (l × w × h)
12VDC Fan :	77×77×40 mm

Bearing

Ball bearing

Rated speed

2700 RPM +/-10%

Rated power

1.80 W

Noise level

22.0 dBA

Air flow

34.46 CFM at 2,700 RPM

Current

0.15 A

Life hours

Ball: 50.000

Features

Blue transparent diamond fan, 6 prong tool-less clip, Copper base

Connector

3 Pin, mainboard

Application

AMD :	Athlon 64 ~ 4000+ (K8)
	Athlon 64 FX-51 (K8)
	Athlon 64 FX-53 (K8)
	Opteron ~ 2.4 (K8)
	Sempron ~ 3100+ (K8)

Thermal resistance

0.345 °C/W

Thermal type

White grease pre-applied

Well that is that, there is not a whole lot to tell when it comes to this cooler. Apparently it doesn't look like they recommend sticking this cooler onto a FX-55 or FX-57 processor. The rated dBA level is 22 and we can vouch for that here as the cooler went almost unnoticed in terms of noise, the power supply and hard drives in the system were louder than the KestrelKing V. It's time to get onto some benchmarks.

For the benchmarks we used a stock AMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Winchester" processor. Idle results were taken after a fresh reboot and letting the system sit for a half hour, and load results were taken during a Quake4 demo running for 10 minutes. Arctic Silver 5 was used for thermal compound in all of the tests.

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