Gigabyte 3D Cooler-ULTRA PCU31-SD Review (1)
Bluetooth 28 Apr 2004

A few months ago, Gigabyte surprised the industry introducing its heatpipe solution to cooling the CPUs. There were many good responses to the heatsink and the challenge for them was to create something that is somewhat quieter than before.

Gigabyte 3D Cooler-ULTRA PCU31-SD is the end product of months of tuning and testing by the team. 3D Cooler-ULTRA PCU31-SD targets the users that needed a quieter heatsink and can provide adequate cooling for the heatsink and the surrounding devices using its 360 Degrees Central blower.

This new heatsink has no adjustable fan speed knob. Instead, a fan control cable can be attached to reduce the fan speed to 1900RPM versus the 2500RPM by default. The previous Cooler-Pro can run from 2000 ~ 4000 RPM adjustable whereas Cooler-Ultra is stuck at either 1900 or 2500. That is probably why the noise level drops to 18.5 dBA at 1900rpm and 23.7dBA at 2500rpm.

Gone are the beautiful blue LEDs and the fan speed connectors from the heatpipe itself.

3D Cooler Pro versus 3D Cooler-Ultra

The Package

The package contains the full copper heatpipe, thermal paste, fan speed control cable, manual. Basically it just look exactly like the Cooler-Pro but it is golden in colour.

Package contains retention clips for K7, K8 and P4. There is a tube of thermal paste and a easy to read manual.

Next >>>

(C) Copyright 1998-2009 OCWorkbench.com