Tt Big Typhoon

barclay03 · 16 Oct 2006 at 14:14

anyone use one? i know most of you seem to favour the ninja but surely someone has one lol what you think of it?

Mekrel · 16 Oct 2006 at 14:27

Design wise, as with any large heat pipe cooler - it has potential, and very good potential at that.

I have one cooling the processor in the specs in my signature, only after I spent an age on lapping it!

Virdi · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:01

I have two of these - But personally found that I had better results with an Arctic Freezer pro.

harris1986 · 16 Oct 2006 at 16:55

i have one of these, keeps my conroe pretty cool with a panaflo m1A on it

it's just a beatch to install

Steevo38 · 16 Oct 2006 at 19:58

Use one to cool my Opty 165 @2.7

Nasty to install but very good cooler.

xsnv · 16 Oct 2006 at 21:47

I've got one as well. Very quiet. I've got a quick question for your guys: did you install your bt with the fan blowing air away from or towards the cpu?

xsnv · 16 Oct 2006 at 21:48

Mekrel said:
Design wise, as with any large heat pipe cooler - it has potential, and very good potential at that.

I have one cooling the processor in the specs in my signature, only after I spent an age on lapping it!

1.52v !! what temps are you getting?

Trying to get my 146 to 3ghz. Load temps at 2.75ghz are 44. you reckon it's safe to go higher?

Cheers

Jokester · 16 Oct 2006 at 21:52

Don't start worrying until you hit the high 50s.

Jokester

xsnv · 16 Oct 2006 at 21:54

3ghz here i come... lol

Mekrel · 16 Oct 2006 at 22:07

xsnv said:
1.52v !! what temps are you getting?

Trying to get my 146 to 3ghz. Load temps at 2.75ghz are 44. you reckon it's safe to go higher?

Cheers

I load at about 52/53, used to go above 60 because the big typhoon was shapped like a banana on its base.

Lapping sorted that out, and my IHS is removed too as it had poor contact.

Arthalen · 16 Oct 2006 at 22:08

I had one of these before replacing it with Thermaltake's own BigWater LCS setup.

Very good overall, but as mentioned, it is an absolute biatch to install. I came close to damadging a brand new £120 motherboard when installing mine.

However, scares aside it does perform one, and I stuck a Silverstone fan on it for better performance. The W/C I have now only betters it by a couple of degree's at best...

Cyber-Mav · 17 Oct 2006 at 01:37

i use 2 big typhoons, on on my opteron setup. and another on my xp-m setup. bloody brilliant cooler.

munge · 17 Oct 2006 at 02:07

Have one on mine - Opty 165 @ 2.6, goes to about 50 on full load, mobo won't let me go any higher

Made a massive difference from my old Zalman cooler

And like above, PITA to install. To be fair, I haven't tried any other coolers with this chip as went on a recommendation, but currently can't fault it and it's very quiet.

You won't be disappointed with it.

barclay03 · 17 Oct 2006 at 09:04

cheers for the feedback guys

im still running witht he stock amd h/s til i find the am2 compatible bigtyp lol tho i do have a big typhoon to replace my volcano 12 on my spare system

xsnv · 18 Oct 2006 at 12:38

guess who's priming (18hrs so far) at 3ghz with his 146

only gettin load temps of 47 with 1.52v.

I have one more question though...what's the performance hit running ram at 2T instead of 1T?

I've currently got my ram 1:1 (300mhz) at 2.5 -4-4-10 2T but can run it on a divider (245mhz ish i think) at 2.5-3-3-8 1T. Any significant performace difference either way?

Cheers.

Arthalen · 18 Oct 2006 at 12:42

The only way to find out is to test.

If you do initial testing with SuperPi, which is memory sensitive, you'll see which one is better.

Then run Aquamark3 and 3Dmark2001, as these are now good 'system' benches that will test your RAM speed as much as your CPU and GPU.