If you buy this cooler, it's most likely to replace a retail heatsink. So I've decided to test it against a Cool Master heatsink. Thermal pads were removed from both units and replaced with thermal compound. The test system is a PII 400Mhz on an Abit BE6-2 motherboard. For the test, I ran Unreal flyby intro for 20 minutes and 20 minutes brakes were taken between each test to let the processor cool down. Temperatures were taken with Motherboard Monitor.

*RR - Retail Heatsink
*V - Vantec P3D-5030

As you can see, the P3D-5030 performed way better than a retail heatsink and should be of great help if you're planning to overclock you processor. This chip could do 440 MHz (FSB@110) stable with the retail heatsink and is now clocked at 476 (119 FSB) with help from the P3D-5030. This may not be the best heatsink there is, but you can't beat it for the price and I'd recommend this unit to anyone seeking a cooler CPU. Big thanks go out to 2cooltek.com for the sample unit.

By Jean-Christophe Turcot

Price - 9.0 Performance - 8.0 Overall - 8.5

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