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Thermaltake V1AX - 1366
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Mon, 11 May, 2009
System Cooling
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Jake Mete
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Introduction
Lately our focus for CPU heatsinks has been primarily on the cooling efficiency of Socket 1366 heatsinks, as the Core i7 chips can run notoriously hot when juiced up, and there's nothing like a hot CPU to push a heatsink to its limit. We'll continue that review focus today as we test the Thermaltake V1AX, a Core i7-compatible cooler that appears to be an evolution of the V14 Pro that we previously reviewed. Thermaltake has a reputation for being able to "cool all your life", so it will be interesting to see how true that is with the V1AX. We know that the Core i7 chips can produce a tremendous amount of heat when highly overclocked, so we'll do exactly that and see how this cooler fares.

Thanks go to our friends at Thermaltake for supplying us with the review sample.


“Since the beginning of Thermaltake in 1999, it has been at the forefront of creating new and exciting products at a time where most computer users were provided little to no choices for components that may seem irrelevant, but are in reality crucial to the performance of a PC. Thermaltake Server Series solutions, with years of thermal experience and industry leadership, sets its goal on reforming total thermal management in the server segment by formulating the perfect mixture of versatility, efficiency and thermal management with each respective server product category: Rackmount Chassis, Server Fixed & Redundant Power Supply and Server CPU Cooling Management Solutions.”



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