Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Cooler

A great cooler thats also a great value

Strengths: Excellent Cooling ablility. Fairly quiet fan. Rubber fan mounts for noise. Heatpipes make direct contact with cpu.

Weakness: Push pin cpu mounting. Should have used screws and backplate to mount on motherboard. Very Tall. Base not perfectly flat. Has small groves from the heatpipes.

Keeps my Q6600 cool at 34C at idle and 46C at load. I recommend removing the motherboard to install the heatsink. Also place a little lubricant on the rubber fan mounts to make them easier to install. Place a thin line of thermal paste on each of the heatpipes. Xigmatek has a bolt thru kit on their website but I can't find it for sale online. You can use the Thermalright bolt thru kit instead....

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Great Heatsink

Strengths: Excellent cooling, quiet fan

Weakness: Not their fault, but those stupid push-lock mounts (Argh!) Plus this thing is HUGE

I have been using this cooler for about two weeks now. Ambient temp in the room is about 73F', and with a Q6600 pushed to 3Ghz, it keeps it around 115F'. The heatsink and fin assembly is HUGE, so be aware that you need about 6.25 inches above the processor to mount it. In addition, in my setup, I have a mid tower, so the heat pipe assembly is oriented horizontally. It is not performing as it...

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Great cooler, great price

Strengths: Price, Cooling, Weight

Weakness: Quality

This is a very good heatsink for its price. It is on the upper echelon of air coolers, regardless of its budget price. The quality leaves much to be desired, but as long as you're careful, this cooler can do the job. If you are looking to overclock a Core 2 Quad, get this cooler if you can find it for a low price. Recommended.

Better than Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

Strengths: I am running a E6850 3.8Ghz with vcore 1.45 V and temperature doesn't go above 65 degrees C.

Weakness: The fan noise can go up. It doesn't fit in the Thermaltake Armor case.

I own Thermaltake V1, CoolerMaster GeminII and ZALMAN CNPS9700 and this is definitely the best cooler I have used. My rig: CPU:E6850 3.8Ghz/MOBO: P5Q Dlx/ 4x1OCZ Reaper HPC1180/GPU: 9800 gx2/HDD:WD Raptor X/PSU:Antec Quattro 850/Case:Thermaltake Armor

Best air cooler ever used

Strengths: effective and quiet.

Weakness: installation of the rubber screw made me sweat. Can be cheaper.

I use this cooler to replace the stock one on my new G0 Q6600. I overclocked to 3.2Ghz and it works well. The full load temps dropped about ~15 degrees(C).

By member: louiv - Aug 15, 2008

Massive Cooler, Tiny Price...

Strengths: Great Cooling for a low price! Competes well with the higher priced solutions.

Weakness: Very Large. I suggest buying the Xigmatek Crossbow braket for a few dollars extra. Makes installation easier and more secure.

This is a great cooler if it will fit in your case. Mine is an NZXT Tempest and I have the fan blowing thru the fins and out the chassis fan. Specs are QX9650 CPU, Asus Striker II NSE, 4GB OCZ Platinum 1333mhz, Dual XFX GTX 280, Kingwin Mach I 1000w PSU....WOot!!

Great Aircooling at an Even Better Price

Strengths: Best price/performance ratio Direct Heat Touch truly does help Surprisingly light for its size

Weakness: No backplate included which is a pain on Intel based systems due to having to use pushpins Size can limit what cases and motherboards you can use this with

This cooler has been absolutely wonderful. I have this on an Intel Q9450 (@ 3.4GHz) in an ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard, and it keeps my full load temps under 50 degrees Celsius. The only complaint that I have was the installation because using the pushpins, it had to be oriented a specific way on my motherboard. Unfortunately, this wasn't very apparent which caused me to put a lot of stress on my...

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HDT-S1283

Strengths: Lots of metal keeps your CPU cool

Weakness: Clips don't work very well.

Installed this cooler on my QuadCore 6600 and Dark DFI Infinity Socket 775 Motherboard. The pushpin clips that retain the assembly were a pain - the fan has to be removed to pop the clips in. Once that is done everthing else went well. I am not overclocking the CPU yet, but I noticed a 5C reduction in temps under normal loads using this heatsink. Will try to start the overclock game and see how...

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Excellent cooler for the money

Strengths: Cools incredibly well, very quiet compared to stock fan. Great price compared to similar coolers.

Weakness: Huge, would not fit in my htpc case.

I ordered this to replace a dead stock AM2 fan for an Athlon 64 X2 5200. It was a pain to get installed, I had to take out the motherboard. Once that was out it was not too bad. The performance and noise of this heat sink and fan are great, and it looks pretty cool to boot. I would definitely recommend it.

A good heatsink cooler

Strengths: Excellent cooler. quiet enough. HDT:Heat-pipe direct touch) technology

Weakness: too big and was not that easy to install

Got it about $27AR. Great value for the unit. Works great on my Q9450. One of the best cooler in this price range. Would recommend it to anyone looking for a top class cooler with a good price.