anyone using the thermalright XP-120 here?

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How many of you are using the Thermalright XP-120 monster heatsink for
their CPU? What CPU do you have it on? What fan do you use and do you
have a link? How do you like it?

From what I can gather it is a kick @$s heatsink that owners are giving
lots of love up for. Sure is expensive, but I figure that it would be
an investment that would last as I would be able to reuse it for future
upgrades being it is so massive, vis-a-vis the slk-948u and how *it* can
be used on more than one socket standard.

If Thermalright keeps making Heatsinks that can carry over like that,
they will get more brand loyalty, IMHO.

So, are there any of you using this monster, and if so, how do you like
it, and what fan do you have?

TIA
 
How many of you are using the Thermalright XP-120 monster heatsink for
their CPU? What CPU do you have it on? What fan do you use and do
you have a link? How do you like it?

From what I can gather it is a kick @$s heatsink that owners are
giving
lots of love up for. Sure is expensive, but I figure that it would be
an investment that would last as I would be able to reuse it for
future upgrades being it is so massive, vis-a-vis the slk-948u and how
*it* can be used on more than one socket standard.

If Thermalright keeps making Heatsinks that can carry over like that,
they will get more brand loyalty, IMHO.

So, are there any of you using this monster, and if so, how do you
like it, and what fan do you have?

TIA
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I've had one for a few months now. Use it to cool a P4 Prescott 2.8 with
this fan; http://tinyurl.com/33q6d

Temps are lower. I went from 48 idle 73+ under load with the stock intel
hsf to 38 idle 47 under load. Then my sensor screwed up and now it reads
60+ under load. I know it's not reading right for as I tried the cpu and
xp-120 on a different motherboard and the temps were mid 40s under load.
This was after running Prime 95, Google Compute, and encoding movies for
over 5 hours.

The finish is excellent with almost no need to lap the base. Nice and
smooth and shiney straight out of the box.

Check to make sure you can fit it on your motherboard. I have an Asus
P4P800SE and it only fits one way, with the pipes facing the memory
slots. The other ways are blocked by caps or just not feasible because
of the hsf clips on the motherboard. Because of this mine also rests one
side on the intake fan for my power supply. Makes clipping the fan on a
bit interesting.

The first time you fit it take the motherboard out of the case so you
can see what you're doing. Make sure you have the clearence all around.
The clips look flimsy but they do work well. I had to modify my fan as
it didn't have open corners for the clips to go into. Make sure the fan
has open sides (needed for the clips) and open corners for a secure fit.
The corners can be dremelled, sawn, filed or screwdriver and hammered
off to make room.

I asked Thermalright what liquid they used in the pipes and was told it
was plain old water. So you are getting a very basic water cooling
system which out performs any standard air cooled heatsink option that I
know of.

I would recommend it without hesitation. I did a lot of research before
buying mine, mainly because I didn't research much before buying my cpu
and got stuck with a hot prescott instead of a nice cool northwood, and
nothing seemed to come close to it in tests. There may be better now so
have a look and see before buying.

HTH
 
Alex said:
I've had one for a few months now. Use it to cool a P4 Prescott 2.8 with
this fan; http://tinyurl.com/33q6d

Temps are lower. I went from 48 idle 73+ under load with the stock intel
hsf to 38 idle 47 under load. Then my sensor screwed up and now it reads
60+ under load. I know it's not reading right for as I tried the cpu and
xp-120 on a different motherboard and the temps were mid 40s under load.
This was after running Prime 95, Google Compute, and encoding movies for
over 5 hours.

The finish is excellent with almost no need to lap the base. Nice and
smooth and shiney straight out of the box.

Check to make sure you can fit it on your motherboard. I have an Asus
P4P800SE and it only fits one way, with the pipes facing the memory
slots. The other ways are blocked by caps or just not feasible because
of the hsf clips on the motherboard. Because of this mine also rests one
side on the intake fan for my power supply. Makes clipping the fan on a
bit interesting.

The first time you fit it take the motherboard out of the case so you
can see what you're doing. Make sure you have the clearence all around.
The clips look flimsy but they do work well. I had to modify my fan as
it didn't have open corners for the clips to go into. Make sure the fan
has open sides (needed for the clips) and open corners for a secure fit.
The corners can be dremelled, sawn, filed or screwdriver and hammered
off to make room.

I asked Thermalright what liquid they used in the pipes and was told it
was plain old water. So you are getting a very basic water cooling
system which out performs any standard air cooled heatsink option that I
know of.

I would recommend it without hesitation. I did a lot of research before
buying mine, mainly because I didn't research much before buying my cpu
and got stuck with a hot prescott instead of a nice cool northwood, and
nothing seemed to come close to it in tests. There may be better now so
have a look and see before buying.

HTH
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Yeah, their site says that it works with the A8V, I did check. So it is
a type of passive water cooler, heh, interesting. Surprised they used
plain water, that could be worriesome if it corroded things. Maybe they
treated the water, that would make sense.

How much of the base is copper, is it all of it, can you tell with the
nickle plating on it?
 
Yeah, their site says that it works with the A8V, I did check. So it is
a type of passive water cooler, heh, interesting. Surprised they used
plain water, that could be worriesome if it corroded things. Maybe they
treated the water, that would make sense.

How much of the base is copper, is it all of it, can you tell with the
nickle plating on it?
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Can't really tell just by looking at it. But I would think it's probably
the whole base and the pipes and fins are aluminum. It may cool the cpu
even more if you lapped the base and removed the nickle coating. The
coating is pretty thin and I have a few scratches on it from installing and
removing.
 
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