Thermalright Ultra 120 EXtreme

[Coldman]

hi there .......
i just wnted to know if someone can help me in finding few details regarding
Thermalright Ultra 120 EXtreme - a product from TDMM.
it's a cooling heatsink so please provide some reviews regarding this

[Hockson]

My reply on this cooling agent:

Features:

• Quiet and powerful cooling due to multiple heat pipes and large aluminum fin area.
• Proprietary bent winglet design to minimize airflow resistance.
  
• Heat pipes soldered to base (nickel plated)and fins for optimum heat transfer.
  
• Include both bolt-thru-board retention brackets for Intel and AMD.

Technical Specification:

• Dimension : L63.44 x W132 x H160.5 mm
• Weight :790g
  
• Recommended Fan :All 120mm Fan

[Viceman]

This new cooler has already gathered awards from hardware websites and earned recognition among overclockers. The packaging performs the protective function quite well. The heatsink is wrapped into a plastic pack and fixed in a polyurethane-foam jacket.

Accessories in the box:

1. Steel plate to fasten the heatsink on Socket AM2 mainboards and screws.
   
2. Back-plate for LGA775 mainboards.
   
3. Two user guides to installing the heatsink on supported CPU sockets.
   
4. Two wire brackets to attach a fan to the heatsink.
   
5. X-shaped fastener for LGA775 mainboards.
   
6. Thermalright thermal grease.
   
7. Thermalright sticker.

Design:

The Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme is very tall, equaling the Scythe Infinity at 160mm. Its heatsink is 132mm wide and 63.4mm thick.The Thermalright heatsink has a tower-like design. Six copper heat pipes, 6mm in diameter, go through the copper base and carry curiously shaped aluminum plates. The plates are curved, resembling a plane’s propeller.

This increases the heatsink area in comparison with straight plates, but the manufacturer doesn’t declare the total heat dissipation area. Every heatsink component is nickel-plated. The weight of the heatsink is 790g.

The top view shows that the pipes are placed not linearly, like in the Scythe Infinity for example, but with a shift, forming two ovals.That is, having a less thick heatsink, this cooler accommodates as many heat pipes as the Infinity. I guess this solution also has an unobvious additional advantage that the shifted heat pipes distribute heat more uniformly in the heatsink than if they were placed in a line.

On the other hand, the airflow from the fan meets more resistance with this design.The pipes lie in special grooves and the minimum thickness of the base is about 3 millimeters.The heat pipes have contact with the base by means of some thermal glue. You can see traces of it on the edge of the plate. This is no solder.

The cooler’s base is not protected with anything.No one took the trouble of finishing it. The structure of its base is made up by semi-rings you can easily feel with your fingers.

[.:MUNDITO:.]

Check out the noise level by this Heatsink:

The amount of noise generated by the coolers was measured with a digital noise-level meter Center-321 (0.1dB accuracy) using A-curve weighing. The measurements were done at night in a totally quiet apartment – the level of ambient noise was as low as 31.6dBA. The amount of noise was measured:
At a distance of 3 centimeters from the CPU cooler when the latter was the only operating component of the system. This is the bare noise of the cooler, without any interference from other system components.
At a distance of 1 meter from a closed and fully functional system case (with the side-panel fan turned off) in the point where the PC user is supposed to sit. This is the amount of noise you’ll hear while working at the computer (the system case is placed into a niche of a computer desk.
At a distance of about 3 meters from the system case. This reflects the amount of noise you’ll have if your PC is working on a 24/7 basis and you are having your rest in the same room.

The noise level of the system case can be viewed in this diagram. The subjectively comfortable level of 36-37dBA is marked with a dashed line in the diagram. The coolers are sorted in the diagram in the order of increasing loudness.

The Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme that have one 1200rpm fan. Next go the Thermaltake Big Typhoon and Zalman CNPS9700 LED together with the pair of tower-like coolers with two 120mm fans. The fan of the Enzotech Ultra-X is the loudest of all but the noise is compensated by this cooler’s highest performance. It should be acknowledged that the noise of the Enzotech Ultra-X is quite comparable to the other coolers at a distance of 3 meters from the system case.

The Thermaltake Big Typhoon were tested with the same fan from the Enzotech Ultra-X at the max fan speed (2530rpm), yet the Big Typhoon proved to produce more noise. This must be due to the difference in the heatsink design because it is the noise from the flow of air that is measured at such a high speed rather than anything else. The Enzotech Ultra-X has the narrowest heatsink with minimum resistance. The Scythe Andy Samurai Master, on the contrary, has a heatsink with dense plates and also has an auxiliary heatsink placed right above the heat pipes.

[SUpER CoP]

My take on This Cooling sensation:

The Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme is the best air cooler I have ever in the total of its characteristics. The difference of performance is negligible as you compare to other competitor heatsinks. And the Ultra-120 eXtreme is better in terms of noise. The new cooler is superior in every parameter: it performs better by 4-5°C at peak CPU load and is more compact and does not bend the mainboard. Moreover, the Ultra-120 eXtreme doesn’t call for a second fan. Installing a second fan on it doesn’t increase its performance much and doesn’t help achieve a much higher CPU frequency at overclocking.