Testing:
To test the thermal properties of the
Thermalright HR-01, I installed the following equipment:
» AMD Opteron 148 processor
» Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard (default settings)
» Thermaltake Shark Full-Tower Case
» 1 - eVGA 7800GT
» 2GB (4x512) Samsung PC2700 DDR
» 2 - Seagate 80GB SATA in RAID 0
» 1 - Hitachi 120GB SATA
» Memorex DVD/CDRW
» CoolerMaster CoolDrive 4 (used to take temperatures and fan speed)
» 2 - 120mm LED Fan (default fans only)
To take the idle temperarures, the system was allowed to sit at the Windows desktop with no other applications running. To take the load temperatures, the following applications were run for several hours:
» Folding@Home 4.0
» 3dMark06
» Sisoft Sandra 2005 Burn In Wizard
Here you can see the various temperatures reported by the Coolermaster CoolDrive IV. All temperatures were taken without the fan duct, and are at the processor's stock speed. The HR-01 was run without a fan, and to see how the cooler's performance could be enhanced, a Thermaltake TT-1225 120mm fan was attached for a second round of testing. The TT-1225 is a "super silent" fan and does not push as much air as many other 120mm units, but it did drop the temperatures by a decent amount.
As you can see, the HR-01 does a great job at cooling for a noiseless solution. On my system, the load temperature did not exceed 43C, which is well within the heat tolerance of the processor. Once I activated the fan I attached, I saw a 5C drop in load temperatures! I would estimate that if I was to use the fan duct and a 120mm fan in a push/pull configuration, I would see another drop in temperature.
