Thideras's Scythe Orochi review

Ben333 · Mar 17, 2008

EDIT: April 19th (2009),
Since OC Pulse was taken down, thideras has decided to post the review up here:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=6067878#post6067878

ITS HERE!!!
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?p=6067878#post6067878
:beer:

Well in the past few months I have been working on ProCooling and hiring new people to try and make the site better. One of the things I did was hired reviewers and Thideras is one of them :beer:

So because of the wonderful people at Scythe and Jab-Tech I sent him an Orochi which he is currently reviewing

He will shortly be posting some data he has collected so far as a teaser and then, when its done, we will link to the review.

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UPDATE: March 18
Click here for the latest results!

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Started testing tonight. The tests will be on my QX9650 with speeds from 3.0 to 4.4 with 200mhz increments (400fsb with half multis

). I tested voltages so that it will be stable during these tests. I am doing multiple mounts to make our testing more accurate, so this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am not able to give impressions at this point, and I am only showing part of my data as I don't want to give everything away! Sorry about that :-/

Brolloks · Mar 17, 2008

Show us the beast please

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Brolloks said:
Show us the beast please

Sorry, slipped my mind

Brolloks · Mar 17, 2008

It is one huge cooler, must be a pain to mount

From the data it seems to be quite an effective passive cooler, with some laminar flow one could have a very good silent cooler, natural convection will not be enough to dissipate the heat from the fins

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Brolloks said:
It is one huge cooler, must be a pain to mount

From the data it seems to be quite an effective passive cooler, with some laminar flow one could have a very good silent cooler, natural convection will not be enough to dissipate the heat from the fins

Yes, it is big. I can't comment on how it mounts just yet.

I must make a note. I am using the program called "Core Damage". It puts out substantially more heat than Prime95/Orthos and even Intel's own TAT.

Ben333 · Mar 17, 2008

Heh, from that pic it looks even bigger than I thought. If I'm not mistaken, that gets in the way of your upper PCI-E slots?

Or on longer cards anyway.

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

ben333 said:
Heh, from that pic it looks even bigger than I thought. If I'm not mistaken, that gets in the way of your upper PCI-E slots? Or on longer cards anyway.

You are correct

Hazaro · Mar 17, 2008

I think they want you to mount it the other way so a fan on top can cool your ram

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Hazaro said:
I think they want you to mount it the other way so a fan on top can cool your ram

Possibly, but the point of this review is to test the heatsink, and that is what I'm doing. Other temps be damned

Kuroimaho · Mar 17, 2008

Can deal with a quad at 3G without a fan. Damn I bet my ninja couldn't do that, I might have got the wrong cooler.

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Kuroimaho said:
Can deal with a quad at 3G without a fan. Damn I bet my ninja couldn't do that, I might have got the wrong cooler.

Just the person I was looking for

You can always change heatsinks

Jayws · Mar 17, 2008

That thing is freaking enormous... just wow. Should be interesting.

Charr · Mar 17, 2008

Does the motherboard flex in a vertical position?

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Charr said:
Does the motherboard flex in a vertical position?

I can test later tonight. I run the motherboard without the nuts holding it down, so I MUST remember to put them on first >.<

Charr · Mar 17, 2008

You should probably put a sticky note on it!

WonderingSoul · Mar 17, 2008

thideras said:
Yes, it is big. I can't comment on how it mounts just yet.

I must make a note. I am using the program called "Core Damage". It puts out substantially more heat than Prime95/Orthos and even Intel's own TAT.

Thanks for the heads up on "Core Damage." Any links to it? I wanna test it out. I have only been using P95 to dump heat and really wanna get my CPU A'BURNIN!

Hazaro · Mar 17, 2008

http://damage.vigilantesoftware.com/

Omsion · Mar 17, 2008

Hazaro said:
I think they want you to mount it the other way so a fan on top can cool your ram

I'd make that decision based on the case - depending on whether the exhaust is top panel or back panel. I'd want airflow to go through the fins to the exhausts - not bump into the top/bottem fin

Another thing to try is with a fan in a tower position. Add that to the list?

Automata · Mar 17, 2008

Omsion said:
Another thing to try is with a fan in a tower position. Add that to the list?

I don't understand what you mean. :eh?:

Orientation should not affect performance.

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