Sunbeam Silent Whisper K8

Posted 7/17/2006
Author: Nicholas Sarpolis (NickS)
Hardware Acquired: FrozenCPU

Test Setup

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 512K Cache
Motherboard: Biostar TForce4 U (nVidia nForce4 Ultra)
Graphics Card: Visiontek X800 128MB
Hard Disk: Western Digital 80GB SATA 8MB Cache
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2-430w
Case: Antec Solution Series
Software: Windows XP Home SP-2

Idle temperature was recorded after 15 minutes of idling at desktop.  Load was generated by 10 minutes of Prime 95 (In-Place Large FFT).  Ambient temperature was approx. 28ºC (84ºF).

Performance

Testing was done with the Stock Heatsink, and the Sunbeam Silent Whisper. 

The Sunbeam suprisingly did good, dropping idle temperatures a good amount, and dropping the load an astonishing 9ºC!  For a value heatsink, I’m impressed.  Even with a smaller sized low-cfm fan, it still managed to cool very well.