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Global Win WBK38
More of the same, only better.
Well, that's the theory, anyway. The same howlin' high speed fan, now mounted
on a chunkier heat sink with fin profiling that increases the air flow.
The same annoying clip. And, at $RM135.00 delivered, this is the most expensive
all-aluminium cooler in this site.
But it doesn't work as well
as the FOP38.
I don't know why, exactly. Making
a heat sink twice as big doesn't make it twice as effective unless the contact
point with the heat source is enlarged as well, but you'd think all of that
extra fin area would do something. When I tested it, though - and the WBK38
and FOP38 both got tested on my original ill-fated converted slotket and
on the steel socket - the bigger cooler lost by a small margin every time.
0.64°C/W; a decent figure, but it should be better.
That huge heat sink overhangs
the sides of the CPU socket, so the WBK38 won't fit on motherboards with
capacitors right next to the processor. Given the choice, I'd definitely
take the FOP38.
