The only way I see corrosion happening is if you install your rig on the bow of a merchant vessel that does cross-atlantic trade, right next to the anchor windlass, and then sent the vessel to sea.
cool, but likely they could have increased the height of and "thinned out" the fins towards the top and even added a heatpipe or 2 to increase potential cooling so much more maybe even did a "crimped over" fin folding for a few mm towards the top of it to increase surface area that much more as well ^.^
IMO $15 is not all that pricey, but the low TDP potential is not "great" when other HSF designs retail for slightly more for far greater potential, likely many that are say $30 "tower" style can operate in passive mode and still be quite functional..
makes me wonder why I have personally never seen a tower style cooler with the fins all fully vertical instead of horizontal this way here whatever heat is being generated is easily transported away, especially with heatpipes..conspiracy? LOL
You can call it passive is, when no fan is needed. This thing however still needs airflow through the case to work, so it's not passive. It just doesn't have it's own fan, but uses the casefan.
Passive doesn't mean "convection based" or whatever you seem to imply. It simply means what this thing is: no fan attached to the heatsink or the fan not being active (see: semi-passive modes of most modern PSUs).
This thing looks like something I actually made way back when even before heat sinks were a thing. I made a heat sink out of Aluminum machined the fins and flat ground and then polished the base so it was smooth and shiny. I stuck a 90mm fan on it and used the 5 volt power it because at 12 volt it sounded like a hair dryer ( fans were much more powerful back then). The heat sink worked well on my 486 DX4 133Mhz@166MHz for the time it was very fast since nothing touched it until Intel released the first gen Consumer Pentium and got to 133Mhz which matched my chip@166MHz. Once Intel actually got to 166MHz I switched to that and ran it at 233MHz with the same cooler just had to change the mounting style which was easy.
I can not believe something with the same size as to what I made is actually able to cool a modern chip with many core and a lot more speed under the hood. We sure have come a long way over the years and yet up until 2017 things were pretty stalled out for about 3 years.
You'd probably be better off buying any tower cooler, and taking off the fan, then using this, but a neat idea anyways. If they make a big enough one for the Ryzen 2200g that would be cool.
Pre-applied thermal compound, eh? This could have been made even more foolproof (with extra cost) by including a reusable graphite/graphene pad like the ones IC recently released.
Not impressed. I have a passive NoFan cooler on my i7-2600k (95W TDP) and have it overclocked to 4GHz and it runs at around 40c in the summer with general computer usage.
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penev91 - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
Greatest thing about this heatsink is that it has a 6 year warranty.thekaidis - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
"Hi, Arctic support? My Alpine cooler is acting up.""...how?"
TheWereCat - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
"It melted when I tried to push 5GHz and 1.85V on my 2700X"babadivad - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
Piece of junk.WorldWithoutMadness - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
Joking aside, I'd guarantee you the other parts would melt first before a big block of aluminiumFlunk - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
They could give this thing a 40 year warranty. There isn't anything that can go wrong that it that isn't the user's fault.patrickjp93 - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
Not true. Corrosion, cracking, and warping can all happen with no fault of the user.Achaios - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
The only way I see corrosion happening is if you install your rig on the bow of a merchant vessel that does cross-atlantic trade, right next to the anchor windlass, and then sent the vessel to sea.WinterCharm - Sunday, May 27, 2018 - link
Aww darn, I’m gonna have to swap the cooling system on my merchant vessel now :(plewis00 - Monday, May 28, 2018 - link
I’m sure they give 6 years warranty because everything else they make has 6 years as well.MrSpadge - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
"As a small bonus feature for those who want a piece of mind"-> who want peace of mind
(English is not as brutal as it may sometimes sound)
Dragonstongue - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
cool, but likely they could have increased the height of and "thinned out" the fins towards the top and even added a heatpipe or 2 to increase potential cooling so much more maybe even did a "crimped over" fin folding for a few mm towards the top of it to increase surface area that much more as well ^.^IMO $15 is not all that pricey, but the low TDP potential is not "great" when other HSF designs retail for slightly more for far greater potential, likely many that are say $30 "tower" style can operate in passive mode and still be quite functional..
makes me wonder why I have personally never seen a tower style cooler with the fins all fully vertical instead of horizontal this way here whatever heat is being generated is easily transported away, especially with heatpipes..conspiracy? LOL
jrs77 - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
You can call it passive is, when no fan is needed. This thing however still needs airflow through the case to work, so it's not passive. It just doesn't have it's own fan, but uses the casefan.Death666Angel - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
Passive doesn't mean "convection based" or whatever you seem to imply. It simply means what this thing is: no fan attached to the heatsink or the fan not being active (see: semi-passive modes of most modern PSUs).WorldWithoutMadness - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
so passive aggresive?Yomama6776 - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
The pizza was aggressiverocky12345 - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
This thing looks like something I actually made way back when even before heat sinks were a thing. I made a heat sink out of Aluminum machined the fins and flat ground and then polished the base so it was smooth and shiny. I stuck a 90mm fan on it and used the 5 volt power it because at 12 volt it sounded like a hair dryer ( fans were much more powerful back then). The heat sink worked well on my 486 DX4 133Mhz@166MHz for the time it was very fast since nothing touched it until Intel released the first gen Consumer Pentium and got to 133Mhz which matched my chip@166MHz. Once Intel actually got to 166MHz I switched to that and ran it at 233MHz with the same cooler just had to change the mounting style which was easy.I can not believe something with the same size as to what I made is actually able to cool a modern chip with many core and a lot more speed under the hood. We sure have come a long way over the years and yet up until 2017 things were pretty stalled out for about 3 years.
mikato - Friday, June 15, 2018 - link
"I actually made way back when even before heat sinks were a thing"You must be pretty old.
Alistair - Friday, May 25, 2018 - link
You'd probably be better off buying any tower cooler, and taking off the fan, then using this, but a neat idea anyways. If they make a big enough one for the Ryzen 2200g that would be cool.hanselltc - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
Well it is cheap.nerd1 - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
How is it different from using a big tower cooler WIITHOUT fan? Those heat sink does not look that good to me.jtd871 - Saturday, May 26, 2018 - link
Pre-applied thermal compound, eh? This could have been made even more foolproof (with extra cost) by including a reusable graphite/graphene pad like the ones IC recently released.TE5LA - Sunday, June 2, 2019 - link
Not impressed. I have a passive NoFan cooler on my i7-2600k (95W TDP) and have it overclocked to 4GHz and it runs at around 40c in the summer with general computer usage.