Spire Verticool II SP601B3 Heatsink Review :: Performance Stock

In addition to our smoking hot new AMD processor, I've also opted to keep our old heater in commission - that is, I'd like to keep our old 530J around for overclocking testing. Unfortunately, due to issues with our usual C19-CRB Reference motherboard (a forgetful motherboard due to a shot CMOS battery, coupled with busy schedules), I've opted to re-test a group of heatsinks on the more modern Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Platform. Now, while I'd love to show you scads on scads of OCCT graphs here too, the program has an interesting conflict with this board - one which causes it to never finish. As such, I'm left to just let the bloody thing run and record the highest temperatures seen by the program. Not as scientific by any means, but still functional enough to work out. Our test bed was as follows:

• Intel 530J "Prescott"
• Gigabyte 8I-955X Royal
• 2x512MB Corsair XMS2-6400
• 1x6800 GT
• Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
• Open Air Test Bench

Thankfully enough, through installation woes untold, this little sink stood true. Fighting back against the big boys of the roundup, the Verticool II was able to keep temperatures to a passable low - that same low that so many other sinks took with them.