Anand heeft Kryotech's nieuwe Renegade koelsysteem getest. Met een prijs van 415 dollar is de Renegade heel wat minder betaalbaar dan de originele Kryotech Kool K6-2 barebones. Wat je voor die prijs krijgt is een mid-tower ATX kast met compressor, 'thermal bus' en koelplaat. De voeding mag je er zelf bij gaan kopen.
Tot zover de specs, hier wat info over de performance van het ding:
The Pentium II 400, now clocked at 450MHz, normally running at a temperature of above 39ºC quickly found a point of comfort, according to the LCD display on the system, at around 21ºC, approximately room temperature. For the sake of comparison, the LCD was allowed to run with the Renegade cooling system turned off, where the temperature of the same processor hit a steamy 55ºC. At 55ºC it stopped to register on the LCD which immediately shut down the computer due to, what it thought was, a cooling failure. Those two readings are made from the surface of the Pentium II's cartridge (where the cooling plate makes contact with the chip), however by using the on-board temperature monitoring features of the BX6 Revision 2.0, AnandTech's experimentation showed that the CPU (not the plate itself) was hitting temperatures of around 34ºC with the heatsink/fan solution coming in at over 42ºC.
Zie Anand's review voor de rest...
