The Titan Amanda
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Yeah, it was 9 hour stable when paired with 2x1gb of Cellshock pc8000, probably would ran a lot longer if I hadn't had to give it back the next day. I'll be lending it again shortly though so I'll post up more pics then.neil27 said:Bizarre, is that stable at 4ghz? Iv seen it stable at 3.6ghz orthos stable but haven't seen any screenies at 4ghz and orthos. Dosnt matter if it isn't 12hrs stable as its still a cracking clock
In my opinion i just think this is just an overpriced bit of kit, With my stock 6300 i idle below 30 and dont even touch 35 on load.
Overclocked i idle 34 and max out on 42 - this is with a £30 Big Typhoon, i dont think i would ever bother getting one of these, unless i was maybe running a much hotter running chip?
Overclocked i idle 34 and max out on 42 - this is with a £30 Big Typhoon, i dont think i would ever bother getting one of these, unless i was maybe running a much hotter running chip?
quite possibly true. As has been pointed out by a lot of people in this thread. The conroes run at lower temps and more efficiently than there predecessors, do we really need a high efficiency cooler.
I just went for the biggest shiniest best thing I could get to treat my processor nicely. Plus on a note of upgradeability should I want to quadcore it later I know this heatsink will cope more than happily.
I do kind of find it ironic that the Amanda would be better off sat on my 8800GTX instead of me E6600. (Of course guess what titan are coming out with next)
I will slowly overclock but I do feel heppy that the Heatsink should cope with a lot of stress on the processor.
On a side note: my Brother asked me to get him one of these for his birthday, I accidentally put him off after I told him the stress I had fitting it.
I just went for the biggest shiniest best thing I could get to treat my processor nicely. Plus on a note of upgradeability should I want to quadcore it later I know this heatsink will cope more than happily.
I do kind of find it ironic that the Amanda would be better off sat on my 8800GTX instead of me E6600. (Of course guess what titan are coming out with next)
I will slowly overclock but I do feel heppy that the Heatsink should cope with a lot of stress on the processor.
On a side note: my Brother asked me to get him one of these for his birthday, I accidentally put him off after I told him the stress I had fitting it.
GinG said:
TITAN Amanda is now only £55 and OCUK change my order to refect that price WOOT!!!
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-001-TI
My Amanda is coming tomorrow currently when running ORTHOS with CPU @ 3.6ghz (zalman areo flower) the temps will go as high as 65degrees AI temp and 83degrees
I am looking for 50degree max load with cpu @ 3.8GHZ, I have high hopes and will keep you all posted!!!
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GinG said:
These coolers need a hot cpu if you buy one to cool a cpu with normal temps you are wasting your money on a perfectly good product that you have no need for.
Facts from a Ocuk HSF reviewer
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7884819&postcount=5
Allattar said:
Not all conroes run cool even at stock, the Conroe can hit tremendous overclocks as I am sure you know but some of them need more volts to achieve the big overclocks compared to others, which has the knock on effect of increasing heat this is one scenario where the Titan Amanda will fit perfectly.
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Jleo said:Hot Hot Hot that'll be an excellent test, post your results back and remember the the Titan is on special This Week Only
I take it thats the Zalman thats trying to bring the temps down, its just not coping at all.
The Zalman is near enough silent and running at 3.2ghz the temps do not go above 40degrees...only problem is I don't want 3.2ghz
Yep got the Titan for the this week only price
Still running ORTHOS and its still at 62degrees AI temp, so over 60dgrees in ORTHOS is a constant temp. Tomorrow when I get the TITAN I will check the temps after 15mins and then again after 1hour 15 
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first off, that review isn't exactly a hugely established site, anandtech seem to have a review of a moonsoon heatsink that looks identical so is probo the name they trade with in the states or something. it doesn't out perform the tuniq, and also xbit labs which is a long established and very good site from what i've seen also shows it not being that great of a heatsink.
i trust those reviews, theres one other review on tweak3d that seems to be writen by a 5 year old but shows its vastly superior to a stock intel cooler, big whoop.
theres some fundamently reading you should do on tec cooling, it ADD's heat for the heatsink to get rid of which is normally only overcome by vastly increasing the amount of heatsink surface area. this is why they can be used in watercooling along with a huge rad to get subzero temps but requires HUGE tec's to do so, 226w ones, possibly more, not a 50 w one. the simple theory behind tec use is that for it to be useful you want to match the power of whats being cooled to the power you want for the tec.
it uses 50w's extra and means you need to also get rid of more than 50w's extra heat.
any proper reviews shows its simply not at all worth it as it can't beat the performance of a similarly sized heatsink.
another main idea with tec's is that the cold side of the tec can't be in contact with the hotside of you won't get the full effect of the cooling, the tec doesn't cover the width of the base as the tec isn't used at low temps, if it covered the whole width of the base it would not work when not turned on as tec's are insulators until the have power applied across them. so its not even being used as tec's are designed to be, its a complete gimmick.
there are useful uses, and there is probably quite a good design in this sink, but its mostly the size of the heatsink and the two fans shrouded to give good cooling than anything else. it even seems it might be bigger and have better airflow than a Tuniq, reason it doesn't cool aswell? the extra 50w this one has to dissapate probably.
due to the shrouding you do get a negative side affect though, not so good cooling around the cpu socket, PWM 's can heat up and xbit labs review tested those temps(compared to the TT typhoon rather than the tuniq) and the typhoon has lower pwm temps.
i trust those reviews, theres one other review on tweak3d that seems to be writen by a 5 year old but shows its vastly superior to a stock intel cooler, big whoop.
theres some fundamently reading you should do on tec cooling, it ADD's heat for the heatsink to get rid of which is normally only overcome by vastly increasing the amount of heatsink surface area. this is why they can be used in watercooling along with a huge rad to get subzero temps but requires HUGE tec's to do so, 226w ones, possibly more, not a 50 w one. the simple theory behind tec use is that for it to be useful you want to match the power of whats being cooled to the power you want for the tec.
it uses 50w's extra and means you need to also get rid of more than 50w's extra heat.
any proper reviews shows its simply not at all worth it as it can't beat the performance of a similarly sized heatsink.
another main idea with tec's is that the cold side of the tec can't be in contact with the hotside of you won't get the full effect of the cooling, the tec doesn't cover the width of the base as the tec isn't used at low temps, if it covered the whole width of the base it would not work when not turned on as tec's are insulators until the have power applied across them. so its not even being used as tec's are designed to be, its a complete gimmick.
there are useful uses, and there is probably quite a good design in this sink, but its mostly the size of the heatsink and the two fans shrouded to give good cooling than anything else. it even seems it might be bigger and have better airflow than a Tuniq, reason it doesn't cool aswell? the extra 50w this one has to dissapate probably.
due to the shrouding you do get a negative side affect though, not so good cooling around the cpu socket, PWM 's can heat up and xbit labs review tested those temps(compared to the TT typhoon rather than the tuniq) and the typhoon has lower pwm temps.
deadkomodo said:The Zalman is near enough silent and running at 3.2ghz the temps do not go above 40degrees...only problem is I don't want 3.2ghz
Yep got the Titan for the this week only price
Will be interesting seeing how you get on.
Also rather than concentrating on temps, check to see if your maximum overclock increases after the introduction of the Amanda.
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Will it fit the bad axe 2?
Hey guys,
Will this beast fit on the bad axe 2?
Im running my 6400 @ 3.2ghz at the mo, but temps hitting 68c on both cores with intel tat.
Its only at 1.3v as well.
cheers
Hey guys,
Will this beast fit on the bad axe 2?
Im running my 6400 @ 3.2ghz at the mo, but temps hitting 68c on both cores with intel tat.
Its only at 1.3v as well.
cheers
I recently reseated my Amanada ( on a 6600 conroe ) and used as5 too instead of the included gloop. Dropped idle temps by 5 degrees and thats with an extra 200mhz going in to. I could probably go for more ( at 3.2ghz now ) but i'm always dubious about winter overclocks compared to the middle of summer. Can't see the point of pushing to far and having a fast pc in Feb an 'slow' in August lol
So as5 is a winner as is the Amanda
So as5 is a winner as is the Amanda
Way to much conjecture
Someone who has a Titan Amanda do 2 tests please, thats all it will take.
Stop the power to the pelt/tec and bench the beast. Then turn the pelt/tec on and bench again.
Do this but make sure the 2 fans still have power
This should get shot of a load of conjecture.
Someone who has a Titan Amanda do 2 tests please, thats all it will take.
Stop the power to the pelt/tec and bench the beast. Then turn the pelt/tec on and bench again.
Do this but make sure the 2 fans still have power
This should get shot of a load of conjecture.
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