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For nearly a year now, the Akasa EVO 120
v2 has remained the primary CPU
supporting heatsink fan for our in House
Test systems. It is quiet and extremely
efficient. Today and with the aid of the
AKASA REVO heatsink fan, the EVO 120 v2
has been made totally redundant! AKASA
REVO is here to stay until AKASA’s next
miraculous production unit; until then
AKASA REVO takes the throne.
The AMD 6000+ CPU has been a bit of a
rascal to keep cool, especially under
load; though the AKASA REVO has finally
taken care of this issue.
For the eagle eyed amongst you out
there, you will have spotted a secondary
diode down at the base of the heatsink
fan. We fitted this as an observation
diode to see how hot the actual base of
the REVO cooler got. Here’s the part
that will blow you away (it did with
us)! From the temperatures listed above
from the primary heat diode fixed to the
top of the REVO the temperatures at the
secondary Diode showed in nearly all
most instances 2.0C – 3.5C difference
hotter – which is nothing in the grand
scheme of all which has been shown.
Absolutely amazing!
Installation of
the Akasa REVO both on an Intel and AMD
mainboard is tool free and was a
complete breeze, no backplate is need -
IE and not having to remove the
mainboard from the chassis if you are
upgrading.
Simplicity at its
best! The results shown
above speak volumes for themselves. It’s
very rare to find a piece of equipment
that states it can do the job and
actually pull through with the goods.
The superb technology built into this
exceptional piece of equipment is simple
but so effective. It beggars belief that
this type of cooling arrangement and
mounting has not been implemented into
place a very long time ago.
However, the Technical Wizards at AKASA
and their colleagues from Noise Limit,
have made this so. To top of matters;
more how often do we see EU technology
shining through from a strong European
identity: technology from Denmark,
product development and marketing from
the UK, manufacturing in France by a
German company famous for automotive
engineering, Behr GmbH & Co KG and, yes
a few pounds or Euros’ extra, but well
worth the cost. Absolutely brilliant!
One very important point of note! In the
lower end wattage CPU’s and some of the
newer Intel CPU’s for example the E6700
you *do not* need the fan attached to
the cooler; it functions perfectly well
without it. We have to make it
abundantly clear; this is for normal
daily usage and not overclocking and
heavy games usage. For the home user
looking for the near silent PC without
the aid of a liquid cooling device, this
is a part you have to seriously
consider. All you would be left with is
the silent hum of the intake, exhaust
and GPU fans running, which are nothing.
In almost all of our reviews the
software and benchmarks we listed
previously are standard in the
professional environment and some of the
tests really stretch the whole system
I/O to its complete limits. In
scenarios’ of this nature is were we
would except to see especially under the
SPEC Viewperf 10 & Radiosity Tests the
CPU Heatsink fan temperatures scream
through the roof. Once more this was not
to be the case. The AKASA
REVO performed impeccably.
What is noticeable from the results
shown throughout the tests is the much
higher idling speed of stock cooler from
AMD it sits nearly a full 7.5C higher
than the AKASA REVO. Whilst under load;
the AMD stock cooler certainly screams
away to keep the CPU cool, even with
“Quiet and Cool” enabled. The advantages
of the AKASA REVO are instantaneously
recognisable to even the most novice
reader.
The all important question that must be
racing through many minds now, what of
the acoustics’ of the AKASA REVO? Quite
honestly we had to look down several
times to see if the system here was
running throughout the early stages of
the format and installation of software
onto the drive. Throughout the tests we
found there were no issues with the
acoustics’ at all. Taking into
consideration that the primary aim of
workstations is power but, with it
should be a slight hum of working fans;
this is all we audibly observed.
Those of you out there just now wanting
to take advantage of the value for money
6000+ CPU’s and its rarity big brother,
the 6400+ then grab it with both hands
and the AKASA REVO cooler; as you have a
wicked combination of equipment under
the hood. This is as COOL AS IT GETS! |
