Kingwin RVT-9225: Budget priced cooling results in budget performance
by Matt Campbell on July 16, 2008 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
Test Configuration
As we've covered test configuration in detail in the past, we won't belabor it here. Our test bed remains the same as it was in March: a Rosewill R604-P-SL case with a Corsair HS620W power supply and a fanless motherboard/video card combination to eliminate stray noise sources.
| Cooling Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 (Dual-core 2.93GHz, 4MB Unified Cache) |
| RAM | 2x1GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8888 (DDR2-1111) |
| Hard Drive(s) | Hitachi 250GB SATA2 enabled (16MB Buffer) |
| Video Card | MSI NX8600GTS (fanless) - All Standard Tests |
| Intel TAT | Version 2.05.2006.0427 |
| CoreTemp | Version 0.95 |
| Video Drivers | NVIDIA 163.71 |
| CPU Cooling | Kingwin Revolution RVT-9225 Noctua NH-U12P Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 (with PWM) Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 ZEROtherm Nirvana NV 120 Cooler Master Hyper 212 OCZ Vendetta Scythe Kama Cross Swiftech H2O-120 Compact Corsair Nautilus 500 Thermalright Ultima-90 ZEROtherm BTF90 Xigmatek AIO (AIO-S800P) Evercool Silver Knight Enzotech Ultra-X 3RSystem iCEAGE Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX Thermaltake MaxOrb Scythe Andy Samurai Master Cooler Master Gemini II Noctua NH-U12F Asus Silent Square Pro Scythe Ninja Plus Rev. B OCZ Vindicator Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme Thermalright Ultra 120 Scythe Infinity Zalman CNS9700 Zalman CNS9500 Cooler Master Hyper 6+ Vigor Monsoon II Lite Thermalright MST-9775 Scythe Katana Tuniq Tower 120 Intel Stock HSF for X6800 |
| Power Supply | Corsair HX620W |
| Motherboards | Asus P5K Deluxe (Intel P35) |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional SP2 |
| BIOS | Asus AMI 0501 (06/26/2007) |
Room temperature is maintained at 74°F (23°C) throughout testing. We are still using the Far Cry River demo as our benchmark for the purpose of consistency, and thus we can include historical results for reference. CoreTemp is used for temperature monitoring.
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brian_riendeau - Monday, July 21, 2008 - link
I blame the push pin mounting. Push pins such enough as it is, and from the looks of it, they put the fan on first, then installed the push pins by wedging a finger between the fan and the pin itself. That is just not good form for mounting a cooler, probably just one of the pins is "locked" in place but not actually in all the way causing uneven pressure and ridiculous temps.flopsie - Monday, July 21, 2008 - link
hmm... i got 2 of these cuz they were 15 bucks, and put on on my dual athlon 64 4200, and one on my core quad 6600. the athlon machine saw the cpu temp drop 9 degrees c, while the intel one only dropped about 3 degrees. it could easily be that those plastic tabs on the intel style mounts just dont supply enough positive pressure.Dark Legion - Saturday, July 19, 2008 - link
Hmm...I see under test configuration that the ASUS silent square pro cooler was supposed to be included in this review, and yet it wasn't. The list in test configuration also seemed to have more coolers than the benchmarks, so I'm sure there were more that were skipped. Can we possibly see the benchmarks for the rest of these coolers?flashbacck - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
Are those ambient noise readings correct? Ambient noise of ~38 db is pretty loud.Bieszczad - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
Well, with the reported temperatures so high, the fan needs to spin really fast to remove the heat, hence the noise.CoreTemp misbehaving? Bad diode on the motherboard and/or processor?
Flaky BIOS?
Anyway, those temp and noise numbers stink.
flashbacck - Thursday, July 17, 2008 - link
yeah, but it says ambient noise was measured at 38 db which should be with all systems off, or with only a passive cpu cooler on the setup. Either way, it's too loud.Baked - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
From the charts it looks like the reviewer did a bad installation of the heatsink. It's very common for push pin heatsink to have improper installation, especially if people are too lazy to take out the entire motherboard for installation. I know, I did this with the arctic cooling freezer pro 7. You can't just slap the heatsink into position and push the pins in and call it proper. There's not enough clearance between the mobo and mobo tray for you to do that, and you'll just get the pins bent. You have to take the mobo out, make sure there's enough clearance behind the mobo, set the heatsink in place, and make sure the pins are properly threaded through the mounting holes, locked, and secured. You might need 3 hands for the installation if you're one of those clumpsy people.Even with the poorly finished heatsink surface, the temperature shouldn't but that bad. It's obvious one or more corners of the heatsink is lifted during testing due to improper installation. I suggest the reviewer redo the testing using the proper installation method I mentioned above.
major_major - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
Who knows what went wrong with the testing methodology...but I think we can all conclude that there is no way those numbers are correct. Besides, any heatsink review where the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro places 2nd place in load cooling temps is automatically suspect.JarredWalton - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
Load temperatures at stock clock speeds on a dual-core CPU are hardly that demanding. That the Freezer 7 Pro has a higher minimum fan speed could easily account for its placement. Look at the overclocking and scaling charts, and of the tested HSFs the Freezer 7 Pro places in the middle of the pack.biassj - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - link
Don't confuse this one with it's bigger brother, RVT-12025. Which is basically the same Xigmatek HDT-S1283. 92mm vs 120mm.