Celeron Cooler Guide

Cel-Rex

FAB28

Before we received these cooler this Celeron 333 was running with it’s default cooler. How pathetic it looks in comparison to the Cel-Rex and the FAB28. As stated before the only fact that separates the Cel-Rex and the FAB28 is that it’s equipped with two extra fans provided by 3Dfx Cool.

The design

The FAB28 and the Cel-Rex are silver coloured heatsinks, which fall into the category of relatively large Celeron coolers. The fins are considerably longer to that default cooler, which come with the Celeron. The FAB28 is installed with two 12v 5000RPM ball bearing fans from GlobalWin, which produces 10CFM each. Not bad at all isn’t it. In addition to the two GlobalWin fans, the Cel-Rex is fixed with two extra 12v fans by 3Dfx. These fans can be attached onto a connector in your power supply unit. The two GlobalWin fans come with three-wire motherboard connectors, so you could monitor the RMP’s of both fans. However none of these manufactures provide an adapter to connect both fans to a single connector. This might be a problem for some people with really old mainboards, so if this is the case make sure to get a separate adapter for this.

4 fans of the Cel-Rex

2 Fans of the FAB28

The coolers come with the appropriate gold colour grooves on the under side of the cooler to firmly secure the CPU is place. Both heatsinks comes with a metal back clip, replacing the celeron’s default clip. This new clip makes it much easier to remove the cooler when ever the need arises. Both coolers come with a graphite thermal pad, which is pretty much glued onto the heatsink.

Grooves

Back Plate

Alright on to the tests now…