| Spire Cooling Solutions KestrelKing V |
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 :
|
70x55x43 mm
(l x w x h) |
| 12VDC Fan : |
77x77x40 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 ℃/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.
