Asus Triton 79 Amazing

Testing

Installation

For Intel S775 installation the mounting clips are Intel’s default ‘push pin’ type. These clips are secured to the base of the cooler using two screws on each side.

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As the base of the cooler doesn’t have thermal paste pre-applied, you need to apply either Asus’ supplied paste or a compound such as Arctic Silver 5.

Once all the mounting clips are screwed in place and the paste is applied, you need to mount the Triton 79 onto your motherboard- this is very simple and doesn’t need the removal of your motherboard. The actual method is exactly the same as the default Intel cooler; simply push the pins into the holes at opposite corners.

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For AMD processors, the installation is simple too- just install the AMD mounting clips instead of the Intel push pins. Attaching the cooler to the motherboard is easy as it uses AMD’s default hook mechanism where you latch the hooks onto the notches on the motherboard.

Methodolog

To test we simply boot the PC up with a freshly installed copy of Windows XP, and measure temperatures under idle and load states. The onboard temperature sensor is disregarded and instead the CPU’s own diode is used.

For idle testing, we simply let the rig sit doing absolutely nothing for 30 minutes and take the most representative temperature of the last 10 minutes. The same is used for the load testing, but instead of letting the PC do nothing; we load both cores to 100%.

As this motherboard also has a temperature sensor in the chipset, we will also measure the temperature of that in the same way as the CPU, in order to get an idea of how effective the ‘collateral’ cooling of the kit is. All testing was carried out with the 4pin motherboard connector being used.

All of the testing was carried out with the side panels on and with one front and rear 120mm fan attatched. Ambient temperatures were at 21 degrees C. The processor was loaded using S&M.

Results were taken while the CPU was under stock, and overclocked states. When at stock, the CPU was at 2.4ghz with a Vcore of 1.3v. When overclocked, the CPU was at 3.2ghz and had a Vcore of 1.45v.

Speedfan was used to take all temperatures.

The Triton was compared to the Intel stock cooler, and the Coolermaster Z600 which was tested in passive mode.

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