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- Date:
- Tuesday , May 01, 2007
- Author:
- Justin Diduch
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Thermalright Inferno FX-14 CPU Cooler Preview
Thermalright gives HardOCP an exclusive first look at their new Inferno FX-14 heatsink as we break in our new Core2Duo test bed along with a new cooling editor in the Great Northwest.
Inferno FX-14 cont.
Napoleon Bonaparte once said “A picture is worth a thousand words”, following that axiom, here are four thousand words, give or take…
As you can see the Thermalright Inferno FX-14 provides the option to mount one or two fans out of the box and adding a third should be no challenge at all for our readers. There is also just enough room between the two sides to shimmy a 35mm deep fan in there. As is the norm for Thermalright heatsinks, there are no fans included in the package. While this does mean you have to purchase one or two fans on top of the IFX-14 purchase itself, it also means you can tailor the noise and temperature performance to your application.
Below we can see the included mounting hardware used to attach the IFX-14 to the motherboard. The universal backplate has holes located on it for attachment to Intel’s LGA775, and all of AMD’s Athlon64 sockets including AM2. The small standoffs to the right of the picture are inserted into the backplate and secured by slipping the O-rings over them. We much preferred this O-ring method of attachment over the typical plastic or paper washers as the O-rings hold everything together in one piece making for a much simpler install.
Also pictured are the brackets that attach to the backplate and secure the cooler itself. The larger pair is for LGA775 and the smaller for AM2, no bracket is needed for sockets 754, 939 and 940. The thin white strips between the two brackets are silicon vibration dampeners that are placed between the fan and the cooler to help combat noise. We will go into more detail about these components in the installation section on the next page.