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| Best Of Socket A Coolers - Power Cooler PCH075 |
| Friday, 01 June 2001 10:57 | |||||||||||
Page 7 of 8 Well what can I say, this is one of the strangest looking cooler ever. It has a slight resemblance to the Mini Orb we looked at before, but the PCH075 isn't any Orb at all. The moment I received this cooler it made me wonder, "Now where have I seen this before?" Then it hit me…doesn't this look like a F16 fighter engine. At least the lower part of it certainly looks like it.
So what's so different about the PCH075? Its looks and its design of course. The PCH075 includes 3 layers; the inner core has a copper layer at the base surrounded by a larger aluminium core. The copper base will be the key to the effectiveness of this cooler. Thereafter two more aluminium layers overlaps one after the other. Keeping the diameter of the lower part of the cooler as narrow as possible the PCH075 has no problem is fitting into any mainboard. (it's narrower than the Mini Orb by far). The cooler itself is fairly large spanning at 62x62.
What catches your eye the most of this cooler is the oversized cooling fan. Measuring at 70mm this is by far the largest cooling fan out of all the above coolers. Sadly however its size does not correlate to the fan's performance. Spinning at 5000RPM and producing a total of only 27CFM this isn't the ideal cooling fan for extreme overclocking. The fan doesn't look like the everyday cooling fans you come across. The fan blades are spanned in two rows giving the impression to two fans; only if it performed equally as well. Since its slow spinning speed the noise produced by the fan is quite low, in fact in contrast to those mighty Delta fans this could be considered a whisper.
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