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Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:02 am
by Apoptosis
Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Sunbeamtech is the parent company of Tunig, which develops high performance equipment for the computer enthusiast and modding market with products like power supplies and CPU coolers. The Tuniq Tower 120 CPU cooler series have proven themselves to be top notch coolers, so when Sunbeamtech released the Core-Contact Freezer we had high hopes for how it will perform. Read on to see how the Core-Contact Freezer does!
Article Title: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/798/1/
Pricing At Time of Print: $34.99 plus shipping
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:51 am
by Alathald
Just don't lap it

Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:03 am
by bubba

that's funny

Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:07 am
by stopthekilling77
Meh, its still a Sunbeam. I've never heard anything but so-so reports about them, so I'm not surprised.
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:16 pm
by martini161
hmm, having one pipe not directly over the procesor could help with a quad, as depending on the way the chip sits in the socket and the way the cooler is mounted it could have one over each core
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:23 pm
by Gomeler
Looks like an adequate finger slicer

Not too bad performance given it's price. Wonder how it'd do with a stronger fan?
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:41 pm
by martini161
Gomeler wrote:Looks like an adequate finger slicer

Not too bad performance given it's price. Wonder how it'd do with a stronger fan?
hmm whats the cfm on the fan?
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:35 pm
by DMB2000uk
If you do decide to retest this with a different fan, You know how there is the 'V' gap between the cooler and the fan, does air escape out of the top and bottom of that? I would suspect blocking those up and forcing air to flow across the fins might give better temperature (might want to leave the bottom one open if you need VRM etc airflow).
Dan
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:38 pm
by Apoptosis
DMB2000uk wrote:If you do decide to retest this with a different fan, You know how there is the 'V' gap between the cooler and the fan, does air escape out of the top and bottom of that? I would suspect blocking those up and forcing air to flow across the fins might give better temperature (might want to leave the bottom one open if you need VRM etc airflow).
Dan
We run what was brung, so if a company didn't build their product for optimal performance that is their own bad. We simply don't have the time to go that in-depth on every review. For example right now Bubba has over six products waiting to be reviewed and more are coming in... on to the next.
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:56 am
by DMB2000uk
Just figured that bubba might still be playing with it due to his comments about wanting to test it on a different board, wasn't expecting a full on testing sesh, just a quick and dirty mod and a quick check.
But being slammed with all those things to do I can totally relate to, so It doesn't matter about my random curiosities
(I'm the awkward sod that always has something more for you all to do after you've put all the hours in doing the review in the first place!)
Dan
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:48 am
by bubba
It will happen, but its a good couple weeks before it will.
Got several others that have to be done first. It will also mean tearing my personal system apart to use that board for the testing as its the only other board I have.
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:45 am
by gwolfman
Sunbeam makes me cringe.

Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:57 pm
by bubba
Well got in the office this morning and heard a nasty racket coming from the test system. After poking around I found it was the fan on the cooler that was the culprit.
Have a listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRof_m5NUBM
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:07 pm
by DMB2000uk
Well that's not good.
You had chance to take the fan off and see if it looks all right?
Maybe the bearing grease leaked?
Dan
Re: Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer CPU Cooler
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:09 pm
by bubba
I'll tear into it tomorrow when I take the system out of the case its in. I'll look closer at then, but yeah its annoying to say the least.