Xigmatek Achilles S1284

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.

This post has been edited by DaRkSyThE: Apr 26 2008, 03:03 PM

Initial Thoughts:





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







A backside shot



This post has been edited by DaRkSyThE: Apr 26 2008, 02:50 PM

A detailed look:



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



look at it basking in all its glory!



a detailed look at the heatpipe caps



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



Mounting Gear



Fan 3-pin to 4-pin Convertor



last but not least, the fan

This post has been edited by DaRkSyThE: Apr 26 2008, 02:58 PM

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.

This post has been edited by DaRkSyThE: May 4 2008, 08:08 PM

Results :


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 )

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

This post has been edited by DaRkSyThE: Apr 26 2008, 02:57 PM

yeah i found it funny too, but i tested this config on my friends rig too, and the results were worst

if you want me to lap it, i might
the base doesnt look like its totally flat haha

i think its due to the sample i got.
i noticed that it wasnt completely flat.


hhmm, maybe i'll have a lapping party. lap all 4 heatsinks

yeah, and actually this is something that i wanna share with all of you

when i installed the IFX-14 repeatedly, i noticed that the middle of the base keeps on changing colour. at first, i didnt understand why or how.
later, when i whipped out some polishing compound and gave it a good polish, i noticed that the coloured part was exposed copper.

thats why the results are like that. Makes sense no?

http://www.xigmatek.de/product/accessory-c...dk-i7751_de.php

yeah anyways, this link shows the new bracket. something liek what ckhong has been doing all this while haha

yeah thats why. plus i only used a 1 fan config on the IFX-14

haha lapping party
i got classes whole week long, hope i can do it asap.

someone has posted up results on this

yeah but im going to lap both heatsinks to see their true performance soon

not sure but i didnt test with the red scorpion

what fans are you on??
does it support RPM sensing ?

well if you think about it, the HSF was built for all sorts of procs regardless of its size.
true contact of all 4 pipes will be more effective on the larger proc but then again larger procs will probably put out more heat hence they need the extra conductivity.
yeah this hsf should fit into your middle tower case

sunbeam should have an edge against this