Testing

Testing Rig
AMD 3000 Winchester
Abit AV8
1Gig Geil Value PC3200
Arctic Alpine 64 / ThermalRight XP-90 and 92mm YS-Tech fan / Stock AMD heatsink

I will be testing the Arctic Cooler for cooling performance and noise generated. It will be tested against a performance based heatsink and fan; the Thermalright XP-90 and the stock AMD heatsink.

I predict that the Arctic Cooler should cool considerably better than the stock AMD heatsink but fall behind in cooling versus the XP-90. The point being the XP-90 should be louder than the sound conscious design of the Arctic Alpine 64.

The heatsinks will be tested under idle which involves booting up the PC, leaving for 30 minutes then a measurement took. And also be tested under load where a loop of mathematical calculations will be presented to the CPU to solve using the stress test of Prime95.

As you can see my prediction was correct. The XP-90 easily takes the lead in both idle and load but generated a lot of noise compared to the near silent but not so bad cooling of the Arctic Alpine 64.