hmm.....aint that sunbeam CCF is the best now?....and there's TITAN FENRIR recently that just defeated sunbeam CCF (i refered to frostytech)

TRUE is definitely the best for i7. I've used CCF and just changed to TRUE120. The temp difference between those two are huge. Here are the proofs. All the tests were done in a control environment where the aircond temperature was set to 23C in a closed 8 x 10 ft room and the ambient temperature was 25C (taken from my Raytek hand held temperature probe, model Raynger ST2L ).  Both HSFs were applied with Tuniq TX2. Prim95 9 (small fft) was used to make all 4 cores of the i7 load to 100%. All the temps were taken after running prime95 for an hour. I took the maximum value temp readings monitored by Real Temp 3.0. I didn't bother to take the idle temperatures for all the cores as the 100% load temperatures across all the 4 cores were the objective in these tests. In addtion I also ran LinX 0.5.6 as this application produce more heat than prime95.



From the summary above running LinX, TRUE beats CCF in average of 7.5C.

Conclusion, I was a fool on believing frostytech. I should have bought TRUE120 in the first place.

yup, indeed ccf couldnt handle i7 and those quad cores proc but for now CCF is still a worth buying HSF. for price vs performance, CCF and other HSF like xigmatek is still one of the best option for budget user. it comes with a reasonable cfm fan unlike TRUE. TRUE is certainly still a champ but with a hefty price tag. not to mention CCF comes with tx2 and a fan controller.

in the end, its up to the budget of the user. the more budget u have the more choices you have
thanks for the brief and informative review bro. looks like CCF is totally out of the league when its comes to i7

well...i think thats the weakness of HDT based heatpipes as the contact area is not that evenly spread as compared to TRUE.

so if we use a quadcore ...prolly not all the heatpipes were in contact with the core...thus bad temperature reading....unlike TRUE where it actually covers the entire surface of the processor

however no doubt the CCF did perform better on a dual core

besides i also notice that HDT type heatsinks tent to idle at rather high temps as well (maybe due to the behavior of the heatpipes) as compared to my arctic freezer7

**nyways..if not because of my leaking pump...i would have gone watercooling already... been patching that stupid aquarium pump for the whole day as silicone tends to take a long time to cure properly **

iinm there is a reason behind the base of TR heatsink. some claim its to fit the shape of the proc IHS. if u notice, proc IHS is not flat either. but im not sure whether its proven or not

and iirc, lapped and un-lapped TRUE results doesnt differ much

Are you guys really serious about these 90cfm CM fans doing such a great job? I'll have everything in my Cosmos replace with it if it's true. How's the sound level like? I'm too old for buzzing fan noise.

what i use to do is to raise the fan from the filter. go hardware shops and get some extra long screws and nuts (if u need it)

that would do the trick