Thermalright Ultra-90 K8
A Closer Look Cont.
Published: 4th May 2006 | Source: Jab-Tech | Price: |
Author: Nicholas Sarpolis (NickS)
Hardware Acquired: Jab-Tech
A Closer Look
You can see here the Ultra-90 with the stock retention bracket/clip set in place. Taking a look at the thermal paste included, you'll notice it's the usual silicone-styled thermal paste. It'll still work fine for most applications, but for maximum performance you're better off with an after-market solution such as Arctic Silver Ceramique or Arctic Silver 5.
Moving on to the base, you'll notice it has a smooth, semi-reflective base. It is made out of solid copper, which is nickel plated for better heat transfer. The same goes for the six heatpipes. Heatpipes are essentially hollow tubes with a liquid in them, usually water or alcohol. When the base heats up, the liquid evaporates. It then proceeds to rise up to the fins, which cool the liquid back down. The cooled liquid then condenses and sinks back down to the hot base again, in an infinite loop. This is much more effective than the usual fin-on-base style heatsinks. With a fan mounted, the Ultra-90 look's awesome. I'm using my Panaflo M1A, which has a grille and a sleeved tail. The M1A is the reccomended model fan for both the XP-90 and the Ultra-90.
The Ultra-90 uses the stock retention bracket that comes with your Socket 754/939/940 motherboard (bottom). The XP-90 uses a custom P4/s478 style mounting bracket (above).
Most Recent Comments
Not too bad. However, this review seemed fairly laid back or something, much more casual. Not necessarily a bad thing. Also, when talking about test setup and method, you should say how long you let it sit for idle and load. I know you photoed that into your screenshots, but I prefer it all being stated before the testing screenies. That's personal preference though. Besides that, nice job 
Edit: Upon a more thorough reading, I'm sorry to say I've come to dislike it
You misspelled necessarily and necessary. I really feel you should spell out everything fully instead of using all of those abbreviations. You should have capitalized Ballistix. The overall organization seemed off and it just doesn't seem to flow. This is not a flame or anything of the sort. I just have a bit of a habit of stating things very bluntly.
Edit: Upon a more thorough reading, I'm sorry to say I've come to dislike it
You misspelled necessarily and necessary. I really feel you should spell out everything fully instead of using all of those abbreviations. You should have capitalized Ballistix. The overall organization seemed off and it just doesn't seem to flow. This is not a flame or anything of the sort. I just have a bit of a habit of stating things very bluntly.I'm going to have to agree... The review only took a couple of hours for Nick to fully test and complete, doesn't seem long enough to be a solid official review.
Review taken down for a bit of moderation. Will be back later.
i dont think its too bad, idle and load times are shown nicely in a graph
I think I corrected it all, and I re-enabled it. Take a look
Nick
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I think I corrected it all, and I re-enabled it. Take a look
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ill look at it again when I get home.
Looks good to me 
Woohoo. Sorry about before guys, really. Yesterday I was really tired, and I know that's no excuse, but I guess I was getting a bit frustrated too.
I'll try to keep them up to par from now on, and if I become tired/frustrated I'll stop and continue later on.
Nick
Sorry about before guys, really. Yesterday I was really tired, and I know that's no excuse, but I guess I was getting a bit frustrated too.I'll try to keep them up to par from now on, and if I become tired/frustrated I'll stop and continue later on.
Nick
Alrighty guys, I edited it AGAIN. The first time I was at school, in my CAD class 
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I'm at home now and IMO it came out 10x better
Nick
.I'm at home now and IMO it came out 10x better
Nick
I'll check it out in the morning mate
I think what we should ALL of us reviewers should do from now on is get another member of the review team to read the review over before it goes live.
I think what we should ALL of us reviewers should do from now on is get another member of the review team to read the review over before it goes live.
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I think what we should ALL of us reviewers should do from now on is get another member of the review team to read the review over before it goes live.
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I'll check it out in the morning mate
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That's why I have Kemp look over ALL of my work (well, when he's available) before it goes live
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Hey, who killed the thread title btw?
Nick
Nick
Eh?
It may have been me but not on purpose - I do tend to click on the titles randomly and its sooo easy to change them by mistake with this VB
It may have been me but not on purpose - I do tend to click on the titles randomly and its sooo easy to change them by mistake with this VB
Haha, ya I had been wondering about that. So you got your happy XP-90 installed with the bolt-through? (I noticed you asking about that on XS)
lol ya know I'm going to set myself as hidden on teh forums I can, you're scaring me.
Nick
Nick
have been using the ultra90 for some time now and have mostly good to say about it.
the only downside i have encountered is i cant install/remove the psu with it in as i could with a zalman 7000b but as it uses the standard retention bracket its very easy to remove and install.
another downside is its quite high so might not fit into smaller cases but fits just fine in my antec sonata case.
its so big and so efficient im sure i could run it without any fan at all.
have a 90mm everflow on it at the moment and it pushes 30cfm at 1350rpm and cools the cpu to 41c and expect it to drop alittle as the as5 is less than 4 hours old.
also the ultra90 has been discontinued and replaced with a ultra90a which is slightly smaller, 7mm to be exact to be compatible with more cases and is supposed to performe the same.
the only downside i have encountered is i cant install/remove the psu with it in as i could with a zalman 7000b but as it uses the standard retention bracket its very easy to remove and install.
another downside is its quite high so might not fit into smaller cases but fits just fine in my antec sonata case.
its so big and so efficient im sure i could run it without any fan at all.
have a 90mm everflow on it at the moment and it pushes 30cfm at 1350rpm and cools the cpu to 41c and expect it to drop alittle as the as5 is less than 4 hours old.
also the ultra90 has been discontinued and replaced with a ultra90a which is slightly smaller, 7mm to be exact to be compatible with more cases and is supposed to performe the same.
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