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Just Cooler P-1000
This
show-off red-anodised gadget is, I presume, Just Cooler's apology for making
the P-5500, which I curse about lower
down this page. It's got the same "laydown" design, and a similar clip (which
is not a good thing...), but apart from that, it's quite different.
The all-aluminium heat sink has
a central block with radiating fins, and the fan screw holes are part of
the extrusion. Which means that fans can be mounted to either end, or both.
The stock fan's a 60mm unit
that's halfway between slimline and full height in size, and it makes enough
noise to disqualify the P-1000 as a really quiet cooler.
The clip is a two-piece hinged
unit, which somehow manages to be just as processor-smashingly tight as
the P-5500's clip, and just as difficult to handle. The hinge end of the
clip's at the fan end of the cooler, unless you shuffle things around. That
fact doesn't help.
After wrestling the P-1000 onto
my test jig, I was rewarded with a very unexciting result. 0.87°C/W.
So it looks groovy, but it can't
beat a $USD12 Cooler Master with a slimmer fan. All of that clip tension
doesn't seem to do any good at all.
With an initial result that
bad, I didn't bother fooling around with other fans. With one or two super-high-power
fans, the P-1000 might beat the stock-fan performance of better, more conventional
looking, coolers. But a fat lot of good that'll do you if your CPU's just
been squished.
I don't have pricing for the
P-1000 yet. Pretty much whatever it costs, it's not worth it.
