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Originally posted by Mr N8
The Falconrocks that I have used are quiet, they cool well, and they are inexpensive. Those 3 things rarely come together when factoring the value of a HSF.
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Exactly...usually, the really good heatsinks are fairly expensive. But with the FalconRock you get a good performing heatsink for a very reasonable price. Just goes to show you you don't have to spend a lot or use a "status symbol" heatsink to get very good cooling performance.
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Originally posted by QuickSilver
 I'm still trying to figure out why Speeze is "favored". Other than the cheap price, they just seem like nothing but your normal chunk of aluminum with a fan stuck on top.
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Don't forget about the copper insert...that makes a big difference. Copper is a good conductor of heat, but it doesn't release heat to atmosphere as well as aluminum does. A copper heatsink will take longer to cooldown than a aluminum heatsink, that's why most of the all-copper heatsinks use fairly strong fans. On the other hand, a big aluminum heatsink doesn't need a powerful fan to help it release heat to atmosphere, but it doesn't "absorb" the heat from the CPU core like copper does. So a combination of a copper insert for the contact point to take heat from the PCU and aluminum fins to dissipate the heat to atmosphere is the best of both worlds.
Thermalright had a really good heatsink not long ago called the AX-7, but they discontinued it to concentrate on their all-copper heatsink line. But now they're brought back the copper-aluminum heatsink with the ALX-800.
And Alpha has been making their copper-aluminum heatsinks for years.
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