Product ReviewsEnzotech CNB-R1 Rev A Forged Copper Northbridge Round *Fan Not Included
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 Rating: Review Date: 02/28/10  |
Cons: no fan included?
Pros: SOLID coppervery good NB heatsink |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/07/10 |
Cons: I found foam shim thickness insufficient at least for older chipsets like Intel 850 chipsets. Not really a weakness but the due to heatsink being 100% copper the pins are very malleable; avoid apply pressure to the sides of the pins they bend easy and can probably break easy too. Also bending the pins make it difficult to insert the metal retention clip aswell the fan retention piece requires perfect pin spacing to fit.
Pros: Pure copper heatsink, includes 4 different retention devices for various styles of mounts, includes a 2.5g tube of Arctic Silver Ceramic, includes a securely fitting fan mount for 40mm or 50mm fans (can't remember which size), includes adhesive foam shim to help maintain heatsink balanced on embossed bare die northbridges, comes with 4 heatsink retention clips and 1 fan retention pieces. Packaging is simple efficient cardboard box with a plastic tray insert, Comment:
Wonderful northbridge heatsink. I recommend having the fan retention piece inserted before fastening the heatsink to your motherboard as the fan retention piece can keep the heatsink pins perfectly spaced and prevents bending while you apply pressure to the pin sides. If you do not plan on using a fan with the heatsink remove the fan retention after the heatsink is securely fastened so that the fan retention piece does not melt and does not obstruct airflow/thermal transfer. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/29/09 |
Cons: Wire clip does not fit all types of loops. Copper tubes bent easily if the wire clip is not inserted in the right way.
Pros: Forged pure copper provides best heat transfer.Mirror finish gives the best surface contact.Mulitple mounting clips fits many boards.Does not take up a lot of space. Comment:
Overall this is a very impressive cooling solution, pure copper is the second best thermal conducting metal next to silver. For the use of cooling devices, copper is the best solution for price and performance, one can't expect putting a whole chunck of silver on your motherboard for somethingl less than $30.Its round structure is solid, space saving and doing its job at get rid of those unwanted heat. With so many tubes transfer the heat, even without a fan the air flow in your rig can easily carry those away. The mounting clips are designed to fit with many motherboards, and the fan mount included in this version can add additional cooling power to the already impressive performance. The only problem I encountered was that my board's loops are exact the opposite to the wire clip with this heatsink, therefore I have to use my old sink's wireclip, which was not designed to fit in this. It has bent some copper tubes as a result. But since copper is very tangible, and also they are a forged piece, they won't break that easy, and I can reposition them when the clip is removed. Therefore for future boards it can still perform well. It is a very efficient cooling device for the northbridge, before I can hardly feel any heat been transfered with that old sink, now is all coming out, what a difference! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/10/09 |
Cons: i have not found any
Pros: small inobtrusive form factor. no noise Comment:
bought this to replace the noisy default cooling solution on Intel's Atom MoBos. It does the work, on 24/7 and no problems at all. http://panospace.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/silence-is-golden/ |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/28/09 |
Cons: ...The price.
Pros: Nice and Heavy, fits great! Comment:
Bought this for a dual Atom board. It's nice and short, and doesn't obstruct anything in my very small case. Really polished, and I love the packaging. Great Quality! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/29/09 |
Cons: None found.
Pros: Good replacement for OEM coolers, ability to add a fan if needed. Comment:
I've replaced several dead northbridge heatsinks on older ASUS motherboards with these heatsinks. Paired with a Sythe Mini-Kaze SY124010L these work very well. Even used without a fan these work well. The included adapters and ample heatsink paste make these a very good buy. Will definately continue to use these whenever I run across a dead northbridge heatsink / fan. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/01/09 |
Cons: None.
Pros: Heavy pure copper! Awesome!Good thermal compound included.High quality product.Useful mounting brackets included. Comment:
EnzoTech is just plain rad. I would buy from them again in a heartbeat. Highly recommended! I used these to convert a an old Voodoo5 to fanless. Using two heatsinks for the dual GPUs, I was worried about the weight sagging the card down but all's good! Temperatures have dropped about 7C over stock even though it's now fanless. Don't hesitate with this company, excellent products! |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/25/09 |
Cons: Included wire clip didn't fit my board's clips, which meant I had to reuse the stock clip and do some careful bending of the heatsink fins, but it's a minor gripe.
Pros: High quality heatsink with a good assortment of mounting clips and they even include some Artic Silver paste. This is a really good product and would recommend it to anyone. Comment:
I bought this to use on an Atom board (Intel BOXD945GCLF2), as the stock NB heatsink was lousy. I "only" gained 5^c cooling over the stock, but that's without a fan on the heatsink and it's enough such that I no longer fear leaving my Atom on 24-7. Highly recommend this sink for any GCLF2 build! :) This review was modfied by poster @ 01-25-09 10:50 PM |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/01/08 |
Cons: -Engrish in the manual :)
Pros: -Quality construction and components.-Cools well. Comment:
This heat sink is well constructed (even the packaging), it comes with diverse mounting components and high quality thermal grease, it fits almost anything and cools well. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/29/08 |
Cons: Can be a little high with the 40mm fan, totally fine if your watercooling though. Not good if your using a wide heatsink,
Pros: Allows for mounting of a 40mm fan, nice finish. Comment:
Bought this to cool the NB of my DFI X38-T2R board, I was only watercooling the CPU and graphics card, and I didn't care for the orientation of the stock NB cooler, not to mention I damaged the retention clip removing it before :SNeedless to say, this is a great cooler, slapped on a small Scythe 40mm fan, and can run high voltages, high FSB and it would never go over 45C, Would recommend this cooler to anyone, just be sure it will work with your hardware setup before hand ;-) |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/09/08 |
Cons: non that I can think of
Pros: Good heat transfer, easy installation. Fan mount is handy Comment:
As always Enzotech makes excellent heat sinks. I replaced my p5k-vm's crappy northbridge. Because it is a crappy board, it doesn't have any northbridge temp sensors. But I can tell it is much cooler by touching the heat sink with my hand. Since I OC the p5k-vm to the limit, this gives me a piece of mind. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/24/08 |
Cons: none
Pros: heavier than expected, easy installation, nice construction Comment:
installed this revision A northbridge cooler(I think the regular one doesn't come with fan mount) to cool down my NB that used to run at around 35C, installed it with the supplied thermal paste, and noticed right away a 2C drop. I then added an old 40mm fan to it with the fan mount, the heatsink feels cooler, but it didn't notice a NB temp drop with the fan at idle, still a good buy! |
I have an older AMD system (9950) that was unable to clock due to instability with clocking the FSB past stock.I noticed the NB was giving off a lot of heat even stock.. so decided to get one of these units to increase the performance.Installation is simple - and wide range of form factors with the 4 different clip styles.Temperature on the NB decreased considerably. Mind you, I also upgraded the thermal paste to MX-2, which also will increase the cooling performance.Went from stock 2.6Ghz to 3.4Ghz stable, where I couldn't even get past 2.8 prior to installing this new NB cooler.