FrostyTech has posted a Verax GmbH P16 Silent Heatsink review

It wasn't too long ago that we first looked at heatsinks from the German born Verax Ventilatoren GmbH. Apart from the utterly unique design of the impeller in the Verax CairdB fans, what really made the P11T and P14 heatsinks standout was the almost complete lack of noise. Because of Verax's fan design, their heatsinks are literally silent - potentially the perfect heatsink for Zero-noise computing. The heatsink we are looking at today follows in the same footsteps of those two other Socket A heatsinks, but this time it designed to keep a Pentium 4 processor running with essentially no noise at all. Pentium 4 processors are a little more forgiving when it comes to the higher end of the temperature envelope, but with the larger surface area of the heatsink we might not be seeing much of a penalty at all. Airflow is the one achilles heel of all the Verax heatsinks we have tested thus far - they don't move air as fast as with conventional hi-RPM axial fans. Instead, the revolu! tionary impeller design works by accelerating the air within the fan evenly, over a substantially longer distance than with standard fans.

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