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#918 - Sunbeam Tuniq Tower 120 LFB Cooler |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
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Installation and Results:
To install the Tuniq Tower 120 CPU cooler, you can mount to Intel socket 478 and LGA775 with a replacement back plate at corresponding top plate. The same goes for the AMD K8 sockets. As for the AM2 socket, which we will be testing on, you are left with a simple lever style retention arm. For a cooler of this size and weight at 798g (without fan!), this seems a bit less than optimistic.
 
For testing of the Tuniq Tower 120 LFB, we used the following hardware:
Enclosure: Antec P190 (Noctua NF-S12 intake fans) with included PSU's
Processor: AMD 3800+ X2 (Socket AM2)
Motherboard: ECS
KA3 MVP
Memory: Crucial
Ballistix 2gig (2 x 1gig) DDR2 PC2-6400
Video: Zotac 8600GTS 256mb 256bit DDR3 PCI-E x16
Internal Storage: 2 x 320gig Seagate 7200.10 SATA2 RAID0
Optical: Plextor PX-740UF
During testing, it was clearly evident that this cooler is very tall! We had to remove the side panel fan from our Antec P190. As a matter of fact, we could barely close the panel with the sound absorption plastic that is mounted to the panel!
As you can see the Tuniq Tower does stand up to the competition with pretty good numbers. One thing I would like to mention is that at low RPMs, the Tuniq Tower 120 is pretty silent. You have to listen for it, but when you turn the cooler’s RPMs up, you start to really notice the noise and when you get to full speed, and it is just plain out irritating. On top of that, the loose fan cage had moved a bit during movement of the case during desk positioning. This caused the fan to rattle a bit and was annoying enough that I pulled the side panel off and fixed it for testing.
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