Seeing as my V1 is nearly inaudible AND performs even better than my previous ultra-120 extreme.. you must have gotten a bad sample. I've got an e6750 oc'd to 3.6 Ghz with the fan running at ~1700 rpm.

As a fellow reviewer for another website (whose address I'm not giving for obvious reasons) I completely agree with your testing results, although I made my comparison with a Tuniq Tower 120.

A very good review (as always).

Greetings

SO whats up with V1 and its non-cooling features for quadCore?!
Is this possible?!

hi,

what were your coretemp readings for the quad core on the cnps8700?

i am getting ~50 idle and 75 load (prime95 smal fft). room temp is about 25- 27C

thanks!

Zalman CNPS8700 wicked cooler worth yhe cash

Thats odd, i have a Thermaltake V1 cooling my OC'ed Q6600 and works like a charm. Wonder why it failed in their tests...

I have been using a Thermaltake V1 for 2.5 months on a g0 stepping Q6600 with a VID of 1.3125,and its overclocked to 3.2Ghz/1.2950 vcore with no issues.Encased in a Thermaltake Soprano DX,with 2 120mm intake/exhaust fans running at 1400rpm.This system can run OOCT,Prime 95 25.4 with small FFT,or Sandra cpu burn for days on end.WhenI first installed it,temps were bad to say the least,after a few days I decided to take it all apart and rebuild/re moun the sink with fresh AS5,I found out that I forgot to take off the plstic base protector it comes with... My idle temps of 65c
@ 3.2Ghz dropped to 42c and loads whent form 75c to 63c...

I now use a Thermalright ULTIMA 90I,plus Scythe S Flex 1600rpm 120mm fan,but the V1
did just fine when I did use it on a overclocked g0 quad.Your results dont add up with other tests on other sites at all.I have abeen a long timer reader and love the articles here,but this one doesnt add up.Maybe you did get two bad samples....