VOS 32 CPU Cooler

As I mentioned before my first impression on the VOS32 was pretty good. The VOS32 is quite literally a colossal cooler. It’s made of highly heat conductive Anodized Aluminum and has a lot of fins or receptacles facing up which increases the total productive area of the Heat Stink, which increases the rate of heat emission from the Heat Stink to the environment around it. Mind you the Heat Sink by itself would have provided an effective enough cooling solution to most Intel CPU’s (Probably not Athlons) but the VOS32 also has two enormous fans blowing in to the Heat Sink effectively improving the all round cooling efficiency of the cooler. These two fans are rated at a mean Rpm rating of 4200 and 26 X 2 cfm. If the case of your Computer is open and you’re near it you will probably feel the air blowing out of the computer.

There is one draw back though. The compromise for the performance of the two fans is the noise levels generated. The two fans sound like a turbine at work when they’re in operation, which is a bit of an irritation for average users but something power users will ignore if the benefits out-weight the cons.

There is also one other innovation Global Win VOS32 encompasses that I find very fascinating. Most coolers simply concentrate on cooling the processor and nothing more. But especially when it comes Pentium II’s an early katmai Pentium III’s there are external cache chips on the PCB that also has the actual Processor. And it is a known fact that in most cases it’s these cache chips that stand in the way of an effective over-clocking rather than the actually processor itself, thus ignoring these cache chips when developing a cooler intended for over clocking to me is quite absurd. But Global Win has also taken that factor into consideration when developing the VOS32. There are vent holes on the left and right of the actual surface that makes contact with the Processor. These vents are right above the area where the cache chips are situated and allow the cool airflow from the fan to make direct contact with the cache chips effectively cooling them. This is Very Good Thinking on the part of Global Win and thus two thumbs up for them.