I have been honoured to test this one impressive cooler..and that is Xigmatek Achilles S1284 from ckhoong

As there is already a review for this cooler, lets get straight to it..no more intro
this time, Achilles will have this gud ol' contender to be compared..namely a king for a year..(thats an old story )

Xigmatek Achilles S1284 VS Tuniq Tower 120




This post has been edited by alive88: Apr 30 2008, 02:33 AM

Comparison Of Size

The height are not so different


but Tuniq is bigger..seems like twice of xigmatek..(its because of the midship design)

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Added on April 29, 2008, 1:35 pmThis two are able to fit in a case(mine is centurion 5)

Tuniq


Achilles

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Added on April 29, 2008, 1:44 pmXigmatek leave half a centimeter for my ram in the 1st and 2nd slot..so cant use my AnG ram cooler unless i put it on the 3rd and 4th slot


So...

Its still acceptable as all 4 slots still can be use

tuniq leaves some space over there..





This post has been edited by alive88: Apr 29 2008, 01:44 PM

ONLY LOOK AT THE AREA COVERED..DO NOT MIND ABOUT THE THERMAL PASTE SPREADING ..
accidentally wiped before capture photo.(i forgot )


here is the tuniq base..



BOTH have good and well spreaded TIM

ooo ..like that ya..thanks for the information.

And now..the result...

IDLE


LOAD



this result is very good indeed..as my room temp is hot..im sweating doing this..
if the ambient temp is lower, i think there will be less 3~4c in comparison..

this result may vary from one another

bot fan runs at 1500rpm respectively

This post has been edited by alive88: Apr 29 2008, 02:05 PM

At last someone testing it on AMD platform.... the result is good too...bro u test it with ur F3 rite..

yup..wit my F3..now i realiza that my F3 need the highest vcore among V2 and V1 F3

nevermind la now that u have the achilles wonder how it will work pair with new phenoms

shud be good... if tried on a 125W proc the result shud be better...

and come to think of it xigmatek from 1283 to now 1284 seems better match with AMD procs dont u think so...

this cooler was given to me to test..later need to give it back
but after ive tested it..seems like buying it..

the archilles works better with higher load...

yup..but this is the limit on my rig..cant go further than that..

yeap... even my RS work better during higher load... i think its because of the direct touch...

@alive88,
nice review and i guess vincent is right after all... it really utilise all 4 pipes accurately on AMD platform... too bad u dont have a S1283 or not we can truely see the performance of 2 different xigmatek HSF on AMD platform... then only exciting... anyways thanks for sharing the info bro...

no prob..i was thinking of that too..but i think s1283 and tuniq tower wont have much difference in performance..but tuniq isnt performing at its best yet..coz the fan may run till 2k rpm..this one i put 1.5k as xigmatek runs at full speed wif 1.5k only..and also, this is to ensure they run in silence operation

i get ur point there bro but if u free u could show us the true performance of tuniq tower vs the s1284 .... but i think 2000rpm wont have much effect compare to 1500rpm... maybe 1c or 2c at most...

nice review there alive88!

seem like s1284 is reallly made for AMD

btw i tot u gonna do for BTVX oso

This post has been edited by tkh_1001: Apr 30 2008, 09:42 AM

i was thinking of that too..but somehow my fren are too busy, so i cant get the cooler from him