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Alpha PAL8150 Athlon64 Heatsink Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Aircooling is the tried and true method for system cooling and for every one cooler you find you will find 20+ more that perform the same if not better than the first. The Alpha PAL8150 is certainly is one of the chosen few that can actually outperform many coolers on the market and thus keeps with the rich Alpha tradition.

In preparation for the Ninjalane launch into Athlon64 board reviews the Alpha PAL8150 was chosen to be the cooling solution in the Ninjalane Labs. This was based on previous experience with Alpha products and aside from the unnecessarily loud fan and fact we couldn't use it on the system it was purchased for we are still completely and totally impressed.

Now for the ever popular list of Good things and Bad things.

Excellent cooling
Monster heatsink, impress your friends
Variety of fan options including some not stock to Alpha
Big CFMs = Big cooling

High CFMs = loud operation
Heatsink too big for many motherboards.
Fan assembly needs to be removed to install and remove heatsink

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