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Thermalright CB-6L
Shiny, baby. Super-shiny.
I got a pre-production sample
of Thermalright's newest heat sink design to play with, and it's a pretty
one.
It's not a thin-fin manufacturing
showpiece like the SK-6, but it's still got its points of interest, chief
among which is its mirror finish. That's bright nickel plate on top of a
normal aluminium heat sink.
The bottom of the CB-6L, though,
is one big solid slab of copper.
The cosmetic finish of the CB-6L
I got to play with wasn't quite perfect - the copper base's solder joins
were less than totally beautiful - but Thermalright assure me that the production
version will be even prettier.
The retention clip on the CB-6L
is an unremarkable screwdriver-attach job, which gives you the usual two
options - you can use the correct size of screwdriver, or you can become
very sad.
As I write this, Thermalright
don't have any information up on their site about the CB-6L, but they tell
me it'll retail for about $US29.95.
That price includes the standard
DinkyFan ("DinkyFan" is a registered trademark of Not Very Good Industries),
not a high-output unit. But you can, as usual, swap in whatever 60mm fan
you want.
I wasn't expecting much from
the slim, quiet standard fan, but I was pleasantly surprised when the stock
CB-6L scored 0.71°C/W. Hardly a world-beating result, but not bloomin' bad
for something without much air flow.
I swapped out the little fan
and gave the CB-6L my high power Y.S. Tech 60mm monster instead, and now
it scored a more pleasing 0.61°C/W.
If you want a quiet, good looking
cooler with an OK price and respectable performance, the stock CB-6L fits
the bill. With a more powerful fan, it can mix it with the better serious
overclockers' coolers.
