Anybody able to identify this cooler?

Cubed · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:27

Hey; my bro bought a prebuilt PC about 18 months ago from a major high street retailer and I thought it was high time that I be let loose on it with the old airduster as it had never been opened.

Expecting to find mostly cheapo components and the stock intel cooler inside I was shocked to discover what looks like an aftermarket style cooler, but I have no idea what make it is. I was wondering if any of you guys could maybe shed a bit of light as I am stumped!

Pics attached:

Cheers.

Sin_Chase · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:43

Looks like a pretty boggo standard cooler with heatsink to case shrouding (often found in pre-built systems from the big names)

Devrij · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:48

I think you should pour LN2 into it to see what happens

Cubed · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:50

Yeah I thought it might have been, but it's pretty hard to tell with that shroud on it.

Cheers guys.

edit: looking at the photo of the official i7 cooler on the website, it doesn't seem to be the same thing as the official one is round and doesn't have the copper heatpipes on the side. Is there more than one type of cooler that comes standard on an i7?

trigger-happy · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:03

hold on, this might be a heat sink that makes contact to the chassis of the build.

stulid · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:17

trigger-happy said:
hold on, this might be a heat sink that makes contact to the chassis of the build.

Aye, I know what your thinking, the side-panel?

trigger-happy · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:20

stulid said:
Aye, I know what your thinking, the side-panel?

ya, its best way for heat to get out of the system in a budget sense but burning hands when moving the pc lol.

el Kuarlos · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:24

I had something like this in my first case, I think its a standard cpu cooler with a funnel that should attach to the chassis side panel, and a vent, and point towards the heatsink switched 180 and attached to the heatsink itself.

You sir are looking at a ghetto mod I do believe.

If the top part of it unscrews then that is what it is. (Screwing is meant so you can change the length of the funnel to accommodate the heatsink.) If its so I would take it off, it wont help, better to let it breath fully unless the pc is kept horizontal with the funnel facing up.

VFM Addict · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:24

trigger-happy said:
ya, its best way for heat to get out of the system in a budget sense but burning hands when moving the pc lol.

Or, more commonly, to suck cool air in towards the cpu.

PS. Pound to a penny the hsf was built by foxconn for the OEM

trigger-happy · 23 Feb 2011 at 23:26

VFM Addict said:
Or, more commonly, to suck cool air in towards the cpu.

PS. Pound to a penny the hsf was built by foxconn for the OEM

it may use the side panel fan chassis?

VFM Addict · 24 Feb 2011 at 00:39

True. The pics are bad but the wires suggest that there's a fan inside that shroud. If so its rare for an el-cheapo to have both a panel fan and a sink fan.

el Kuarlos · 24 Feb 2011 at 00:49

The plastic shroud was meant to attach to the side panel, the original owner has taken it off the side panel and attached it to the heatsink.

Notice how it clearly isnt meant to be on the heatsink- it has another set of screwholes and god knows what is holding it on but it doesnt look like four screws.

Orcvader · 24 Feb 2011 at 00:52

I had a cooler like this in my Acer PC, except without the heatpipes. It's a stock OEM cooler. That shroud is to allow the fan to recieve cool air from the side of the case, so effectively also turning the CPU fan into an intake fan.

Orcvader · 24 Feb 2011 at 00:53

el Kuarlos said:
The plastic shroud was meant to attach to the side panel, the original owner has taken it off the side panel and attached it to the heatsink.

Notice how it clearly isnt meant to be on the heatsink- it has another set of screwholes and god knows what is holding it on but it doesnt look like four screws.

Was also like that on the Acer OEM cooler, but it actually does go on the CPU fan. No idea why it has screwholes

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chippy08 · 24 Feb 2011 at 00:54

There them cheap systems you get from high street shops where they use cheap nasty cases that have no air flow, my brother in law has one its always overheating and shutting down.

Code13 · 24 Feb 2011 at 01:10

*Puts on Monocle* I say what an interesting specimen. If it is aftermarket then it isn't a good example as that funnel looks out of place. I know my High Street PC came with a cooler that had a similar funnel, but not copper pipes like that.

Probably just an OEM cooler you can't buy retail. Sorry for the lack of help. Luckily good CPU coolers are quite good value if you're worried about cooling. Though a good spring clean may be enough.

AndyOcUK · 26 Feb 2011 at 14:56

looks to me like the AMD A64 stock cooler that I had in the box with my old FX 60 CPU.

Pretty good as stock coolers go. Used for a week whist sourcing WC parts. At the time, this type only came with the FX 57 and FX 60 chips but, iirc, they were in the retail box with most of the mid - higher end Athlon X2 chips after that. Went to intel after my FX 60 so can't comment on what AMD use now. The OEM for that cooler was Foxconn.

Cubed · 26 Feb 2011 at 23:46

The CPU it's on is an i7 920, though the people posting in the thread suggesting Acer are right, it is an Acer machine. I guess Acer must have their own stock cooler they use on their builds.