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| AVC 3x P4 Heatsink Roundup |
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| Written by Alexandru Spataru | |
| Sunday, 01 July 2007 | |
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Since the popularity of the Pentium 4 CPU has dramatically increased, most heatsink manufacturers have launched new products designed for this processor. As you probably know, the newest Pentium 4 CPUs use a mPGA socket 478 form factor, so the old socketA/370 coolers are not compatible because of the new tightening mechanism which uses a cage around the socket. The Athlon XP generally runs hotter than the Pentium 4, although the latter runs at a higher frequency, so most Pentium 4 coolers are not very powerful and are not designed for overclocking, unlike most coolers for Athlon CPUs. But there are a handful of manufacturers that do produce some very high-quality socket478 sinks, and one of these manufacturers is Asian Vital Components or AVC for short. I have the pleasure of reviewing their latest and best socket478 coolers: the Sunflower2 (Z7U7041), the Blizzard cooler (Z7H7059) and the copper cooler with no official name, just a P/N: Z7H2403. All these coolers are sold on OEM market and they're hard to find in retail stores. Anyway, they're all shipped in identical boxes and the only thing that makes the difference between these containers is the sticker with the model P/N:
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