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WBK38+32 review
The WBK38 comes standard with the Delta Fan as does the Fop38.
Delta Fan: .32a , 3.84w , 6800rpm , 37.6CFM , 46.5dBa
Ys-Tech Fan: .18a , 2.16w , 4500rpm , 26CFM , 36dBa (fop32)
Finally got my hands on the WBK 38 from Global Win. Wow, just could not wait to get home and test it. Well my first impression was that its at least a good bit larger than the Fop 38. Unfortunately the trademark clip is still there , I really dont like this clip, its badly designed and overly hard on the tension . As a side test Peter from Nucleus asked me to try the WBK heatsink with the Fop 32 fan, as some customers had asked what difference it would make to the performance . Certainly would be a lot more quiet, eh.
So to set a bench mark, the first test is running my standard externally ducted fop 32 set up. Side cover on.
The test being run to load up the cpu is the demo mode of 3Dmark2000, and as you can see the externally ducted fop 32 reached 26deg Celsius, with room temp being 19deg C.
The next test was the FOP38 , with the side cover off .
Now you can see why Im so fond of the externally ducted fop32, The Fop38 with side cover off reached 25deg C for the same test, thats only 1 deg C difference. And with the side cover on the ducted fop32 would beat the Fop38. Ok so the standard for the side cover off is 25deg C for the FOP38.
Same test , side cover off and this time its the WBK38.
23 deg C for the WBK38, thats 2 deg C better than the FOP38, and running at the same temp as the MB, now thats not to bad , even if it is a cool day of 19deg C inside.
Now its time for the Fop32 fan , on the WBK heatsink. Or as I like to cal it the WBK32.
23 deg C , the same as with the Delta fan, Ok now honestly I cant see why Global Win didnt just bring out a WBK32 instead of the WBK38. The YS tech fan makes so much less noise. If you can get your retailer to do it , swapping fans would seem like a good idea, especially if my results pan out over different cpu's and systems. It would seem obvious to me that Global Win have made an improved product, one that would seem to reach peak efficiency with the YS tech fan. So the question has to be asked, why put the delta on it? Only Global Win knows the answer to that question, oh yeah, and that clip, come on , the clip sucks .
Now its time to test the Global Win FHP08, this cooler has a 50mm fan on it and is rated to cool Duron CPU's. The heatsink itself is about half the size of a FOP38 heatsink, and I must say I was somewhat skeptical as to its ability to even cool my celeron 566 at stock speed. So this was where I started, running 3Dmark2000 demo mode took the cpu to 24deg C. Thats at def 566mhz and 1.5v. Time to overclock, so I went for 90mhz bus and 1.6volts for 765mhz.
The GW FHP08 reached 33deg C , and I must say that this was much better than I expected from this little cooler, a surprising performer. If someone is looking for a stock cooler for their Duron 600 or Celeron 533 to 600 I think that the FHP08 can do the job, it even looks like it can handle mild overclocking, now that cant be bad. I can see some real potential for this cooler in socket 7 applications cooling anything from 200mmx to the AMD K6-2 series of cpu's , and handling all mild overclocking experiments , you want to throw at these chips.
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