Globalwin
FKP-32 Cooler Review
Posted by Adam
Klein on April 04, 2000
Manufacturer:
GlobalWin
Product provided by: Crazy
PC
The GlobalWin FKP-32 cooler is a
socket7/370 cooler just like the ThermalTake Golden Orb I
reviewed a couple of weeks ago. You may not have heard of the
name ThermalTake before, but a lot of people who know PC
cooling units, know the name GlobalWin.
GlobalWin has a vast variety
of CPU cooler and the FKP-32 is just one of them. While the
FKP-32 is not the biggest and baddest of the GlobalWin
coolers, it does hold it's own in terms of performance. A lot
of the bigger coolers are what I like to refer to as
"overkill" cooling units. They may perform better by
cooling the CPU 1 to 2 degrees more, but they are also prices
twice as high as a slightly smaller one.
The GlobalWinFKP-32 is very
capable unit. The one I have before me is actually doing a
better job of cooling than the ThermalTake Golden Orb and yet
is priced a little less than it. I have been using the FKP-32
for almost two and 1/2 weeks now, and it's been performing a
little better than I expected.
Impressions and
Installation
When I first received the
cooler, I noticed that it was 1 and 1/2 times taller than the
Golden Orb. That meant I would have to sacrifice some DIMM
slots.
The Asus P3B-F and Abit BE6-2
motherboards have a very tightly packed setup, so I would have
to move some of my memory around. As it turns out, I only had
to give up one DIMM slot, so that left three on the P3B-F and
two on the BE6-2. I also didn't have any problems with
components, like capacitors, getting in the way of the cooler,
since the motherboards have everything out of the way for
coolers. Mounting it was easy since it used a bracket that
could be adjusted on one end.
The FKP-32 also came shipped
with some thermal compound. Enough to use on three dozen CPUs,
in my opinion. I only had to put a 1/8th pea size on my P3
500E CPU. The Coppermine is very very small, so you don't want
to put a whole lot of thermal grease in between the cooler and
the CPU.
Once
I got the cooler installed and the IWill Slocket put back in
place, it was time to turn it on. I noticed that this cooler
was fairly loud. The FKP-32 comes with a pretty large 4500 RPM
fan. It looked a lot like the fan used on Alpha coolers. You
might also want to know that the cooler uses a ball bearing
type of fan, the most common used for CPUs. Although they are
louder than brush fans, they generally perform better and last
longer.
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