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 [review]Xigmatek Achilles, against rival Thermalright

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post Apr 25 2008, 08:42 PM, updated 17y ago

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Xigmatek Achilles S1284


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Background:

Purpose and targets of becoming one of the worlds leaders in thermal PC Industry were set for Xigmatek Co. Ltd in 2005, the founding year! To ensure reaching this project aims, Xigmateks management followed up with hard work, experiences and customer friendly business style.

Honing one of the world's most efficient manufacturing operations, Integration Presence in major economic regions, being tied up with most important strategic alliances between suppliers and academia and further majority investments in R&D are some of Xigmateks aggressive incensement strategies.

Combining the cream of product designers, R&D engineers and technical people (main team in Germany) Xigmatek is proud and full of confidence to offer excellent quality products and service to cover the customers requirements and demands.

Within the standard channels as the consumer market and the distributing electrical appliances, Xigmatek will keep on focusing on development and set up even new sales channels to comply ever-changing demands and requirements.

Several years of experiences company background in Thermal IT industry provides our customer the best, reliable, environmental and performing Thermal/Cooling Systems including excellent Service to fulfill global users and customers demands.


Introduction:
Xigmatek is a relatively new name when we hear it. they have only been in our market for months now but indeed they have left a mark. Xigmatek has produced many heatsinks ranging from CPU coolers, VGA coolers and others. Also, they have sold many patents to other companies such as OCZ.

Xigmatek utilizes the H.D.T technology to conduct heat in a very different yet efficient manner.The concept of H.D.T. technology is that the heat-pipe contacts with CPU directly and absorbs the heat of CPU directly, that different from other cooler product which use the base block to absorb the heat (it means that Heat-pipe can't absorb the Heat efficiently). However, the H.D.T. technology used in cooler is providing outstanding performance and efficiency.

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Achilles S1284, a new generation H.D.T. cooler, once again proves that it is possible to do concurrently both good-looking and performance. Its H.D.T. technology and 4pcs Φ8 heat-pipe makes Achilles a remarkable performing and special fan design makes it to reach a silent level. With LED lights, transparent fan, Anti-vibration rubber, Push-pin/Clip for Intel & AMD, Achilles S1284 offers not only friendly, reliable, easy to install, but also powerful performance for users.

Features:

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-With H.D.T. technology and 4pcs Φ8mm heat-pipe, Achilles S1284 creates most efficient heat conduction and outstanding cooling performance.

-Achilles S1284 combines transparent colorful fan, Nickel Heat-pipe (Φ8mm), 4pcs white LED lights on fan, anti-vibration rubber and Spoiler.

-With anti-vibration rubber and Push-pin/Clip for Intel & AMD application design, Achilles S1284 provides users not only silent level but also easy and quick installation.

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-4pcs Φ8mm high performance U type heat-pipes.
-H.D.T. (Heat-pipe direct touch) technology.
-Transparent colorful housing and blade.
-Nickel Heat-pipe.
-4pcs white LED.
-Anti-vibration rubber design.
-Efficient PWM fan.
-Light weight.
-Easy installation.
-LGA775 push-pin / AM2 & K8 tool-less clip.






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Initial Thoughts:

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Moving away from Cardboard boxes, Xigmatek decided to pack their titan in a plastic box

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A backside shot

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A detailed look:

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Because the Achilles is utilizing the H.D.T. technology, here is what it looks like

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look at it basking in all its glory!

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a detailed look at the heatpipe caps

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As you can see here, a plastic keeps the heatpipes unexposed

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Mounting Gear

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Fan 3-pin to 4-pin Convertor

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last but not least, the fan


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Test Bed:
Processor: Intel C2D X6800 Extreme @ 3.6GHz @ 1.42 vcore
Motherboard: Asus Maximus Formula SE
RAM Module: Team Xtreem DDR2 Special OPB Edition (Micron D9GMH)
Graphic Card: Foxconn 8800GT
Power Supply Unit : Silverstone Decathlon 1200W
Hard Disk: Western Digital 36Gb Raptor
Operating System : Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

Testing Materials Used :
1. Artic Cooling MX-2
2. Fan Supplied with Xigmatek Achilles

Testing Methods Used :
1. Each Heat Sink is tested twice(cool down is 5 minutes between each test), the average results is taken as the result.
2. The same amount and type of Thermal Paste used is kept constant for all Heat Sinks used
3. All Heat Sinks are tested with the same fans (excluding the Ultima 90i tested with a 90mm fan and the Water Cooling setup)
4. A Thermal Probe is placed at the edge of the CPU to retrieve the temperature. The Thermal Probe ensures accuracy in Temperature reading.
5. Load test were done by running ORTHOS Small FFT test priority 8 for 20 minutes. Ambient temp prior every test was be measured.


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Results :
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Pros:
-Easy to install
-Fan provided is bright (connected it straight to the power supply)
-Excellent price/performance ratio

Cons:
-anti-vibration rubber design makes it slightly hard to install the fan
-Could improve overall design (not a con of course tongue.gif )

Conclusion:

Xigmatek has certainly produced an excellent product here, and it is claimed to be better than the Red Scorpion previously sold. Although the Xigmatek follows slightly behind Thermalright, the price is also way lower compared to them. The H.D.T. design has also proved to be very effective and with a little more innovation, it is a sure win for Xigmatek over competitors Thermalright.

overall, i award the Xigmatek Achilles a 9/10

oh yes, and if i ever had a value for money award, the Xigmatek would get GOLD



a special thanks to ckhoong for providing me a sample to the Xigmatek Achilles to play with smile.gif


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Nice review. thumbup.gif

However, I find the results a bit funny as the IFX-14 wub.gif performs the same as the TRUE.

Maybe a quad would show the true colours of the IFX-14? hmm.gif
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QUOTE(kmarc @ Apr 27 2008, 07:52 AM)
Nice review.  thumbup.gif

However, I find the results a bit funny as the IFX-14  wub.gif performs the same as the TRUE.

Maybe a quad would show the true colours of the IFX-14?  hmm.gif
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yeah i found it funny too, but i tested this config on my friends rig too, and the results were worst
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got the achilles from ckhoong(thanks bro)..will conduct a review between tuniq tower 120 and this cooler on amd platform..
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from 3 to 4 H.D.T cooler, wonder will there be another
increase of the amount of heat pipe from Xigmatek.
maybe 6 HDT in the near future.



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QUOTE(overclockalbert @ Apr 27 2008, 04:26 PM)
from 3 to 4 H.D.T cooler, wonder will there be another
increase of the amount of heat pipe from Xigmatek.
maybe 6 HDT in the near future.
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that one very hard oh... wonder how small the HDT gonna be if thats the case tongue.gif
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even 4 pipe for me is a lil too much edi... if 6mm and 4 pipe then it should be better i think as for intel proc, the area is a lil smaller but all and all maybe this cooler is meant for amd proc....
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QUOTE(overclockalbert @ Apr 27 2008, 04:26 PM)
from 3 to 4 H.D.T cooler, wonder will there be another
increase of the amount of heat pipe from Xigmatek.
maybe 6 HDT in the near future.
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either increase area of surface processor or make heatpipe more tiny .. sweat.gif
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Going to show after lapping result? brows.gif
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if you want me to lap it, i might smile.gif
the base doesnt look like its totally flat haha
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NIce review bro,
the base looks flat to me..
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QUOTE(DaRkSyThE @ Apr 27 2008, 08:59 PM)
if you want me to lap it, i might smile.gif
the base doesnt look like its totally flat haha
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waiting for ckhoong's approval? tongue.gif time to unleash the true power !!! drool.gif drool.gif
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lapping indeed improve a lil... but im not sure bout s1284 la... for s1283, the temp decrease around 2c to 5c...
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A nice review bro.. A good cooler for price/performance ratio..
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btw... why ifx-14 worst than ultra 120x?.... doh.gif

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