Straight
from a Hong Kong street market to you, comes this fine product from that
highly esteemed manufacturer... uh... OK, I don't know who makes this thing.
It says "FYH" on the fan sticker. That's the brand of the fan, not the brand
of the cooler, but until I find out what the actual manufacturer is (anybody
know?), that's what I'll call it. The heat sink looks the same as the one
used in the AVGS
CA 1000 and CA 1050 coolers (the CA1000 is reviewed on AcidHardware here
), but the FYH fan is smaller than the one AVGS straps on. The heat sink
has a copper base, and a Global Win-style clip (which is not really a good
thing - see the FOP38
section to see why...).
There's an epic number of thin aluminium fins bonded to the base, and blown
on by the unremarkable 60mm fan. A couple of rivet-ended pegs keep it all
together; thin-fin heat sinks can be fragile, but this one isn't.
The heat sink is slightly too tall to be a cube; this is a pretty impressively
large cooler. So I expected decent performance out of it. And I got it.
With the pretty
quiet stock fan this cooler scored a perfectly creditable 0.70°C/W. When
I swapped out the stock fan for a 7000RPM Y.S. Tech unit - which is taller
than the stock one, so you need longer screws to hold it down - performance
improved to 0.62°C/W.
That's not
as good as the results from the all-copper coolers in this comparison, but
it's still good. And the stock performance is excellent, considering the
low noise level.
So if you see one of these coolers for cheap, grab it. The clip's not too
bad, the stock performance is better than OK, and it does well if you hop
it up with a better fan, too.
