Review

Vigor Gaming Updates Its Peltier-on-a-Chip Cooler
by Victor Loh

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Test Setup and Procedure

We compared the performance of the Monsoon II with that of the winner of our Horizontal Cooler Showdown, the Thermaltake Sonic Tower. In a previous review of the ASUS P5WDG2-WS motherboard, we discovered that the stock cooler on the hot Pentium 955 Extreme Edition was in dire need of replacement. We used the same test bed to run our cooler experiment.

Processor	Intel Pentium 955 Extreme Edition
Motherboard	ASUS P5WDG2-WS
Memory	2 x Super Talent 1GB 800MHz DDR2 (T800UX2GC4)
Graphics	GeForce 7800 GTX
Hard drive	Seagate Barracuda 160GB
Operating System	Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2
Power supply	Antec TPII-550
Case	Silverstone TJ07

Processor temperatures were observed at idle and under load using PC Probe II. Four instances of Prime95 running the "small FFT's" torture test was used to load the dual-core Hyper-Threading processor for one hour. Peak temperatures were recorded and plotted in the table below. We performed these tests at the factory BIOS clock settings (3.46 GHz) and overclocked to 4.67 GHz with the core voltage raised to 1.450v. Continued...

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