FrostyTech has posted a CPUmate DIA-10500 Heatpipe Pentium 4 Heatsink review
The cooling solution CPUMate base their heatsink around is nothing more than two interlocking nickel plated extruded aluminum heatsinks which are inexpensive to produce, but throw in a set of heatpipes and the equation changes. While we have seen similar examples (sans heatpipes) from other Taiwanese manufacturers which have proved disappointing, CPUmate have added the right technology in the right way, endowing the DIA-10500 with some fairly good performance characteristics. Heatpipes can be very useful additions to a heatsink - enabling it to work harder under the same airflow parameters. Heatpipes can also be ill designed for a particular heatsink and offer little or no realistic benefit to the overall cooling capability. In this instance, CPUmate have engineered a very simple and effective solution, that while not entirely quiet, it does posses very good thermal properties for its size and materials.Read more
