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#766 - Cooler Master Eclipse Cooler |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Saturday, 16 December 2006 |
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A Closer Look - HSF:
The Cooler Master Eclipse cooler has a very interesting first impression. With a snail shaped profile and claw like heat pipes, this cooler demands your attention. You will notice that it has a plastic hood that has a large opening at the top, we will get to that later.
  
The integrated fan is shown here as model #B10478-33CB-4CP-L1 running at .58 amps. This is a barrel loaded fan and has eleven fins and they are the entire depth of the cooler. To illustrate the depth, I have placed the thermal compound tube into the fins opposite of the fan hub. Please do not place anything into the fins if you are planning to turn the fan on.
  
The fan has a inline jumper header. This is to select from three different speed adjustments; Silent Mode (~1,800 RPM), Performance Mode (3,300 RPM) and PWM Mode (~900 to 3,000). At the end is a four pin power header. This is compatible with both three and four pin headers on your motherboard.
 
Taking a look at the side where the heat pipes meat the fins, you can see that there are multiple punched holes. These are for the plastic hood. This allows the hood to slide to three different positions to move the exhaust airflow over your motherboard components. The third image shows the three optional positions.
  
The base of the cooler is all copper and is protected by a clear plastic sticker notating to remove the sticker before use. The first two images also show screw holes in the four corners. These are for the Intel mounting system.
 
The surface of the base is very smooth but with 'brushed-like' ridges. These are only noticeable with a fingernail or edged object. With this approach from Cooler Master, you can tell which side of the base lapping debate that they are on.
   
All four sides of the Eclipse have two slots for the AMD retention system. This enables you to position the Eclipse cooler in any ninety degree direction of your choice. A very sweet feature!
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