Preferred mounting ?

[NogNeetMachinaal]

I am considering bying 2 Kabutu coolers (for 2 systems - of course...).
The product description states 4 ways of mounting.
For a horizontal mounted system board I can imagin that it doesn't matter.

When using this cooler in a midi tower, the system board is mounted vertical. Is there a preferred way of mounting it in this situation?

My case is a Sonata III 500 with a Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 (rev. 1.0).
I'm using OCZ platinum memory modules with normal heatspreaders.


Grtz - Will

[Oli]

Mount it with the heatpipe ends facing to the top of your case if possible.

[Jugurtha]

Are you sure?

On the pics and installations vids, it seems as though the pipes are on the side of the RAM and on the board they used (ASUS) this means that the pipes would be facing east, when looking at a mobo in vertical position (and Sonata II case, for me)

[Okiwana Okimoto]

Hi Jugurtha,

you mean our flash animations on webpage ? This are only a example for correct mounting for AMD/INTEL.

[Jugurtha]

Hi Okiwana,

Yes, I was referring to the flash animations, as well as the pics posted in another thread in response to AM2+ mounting issues. I am not quite sure which is the best position for the Kabuto - the manual has a circle, double-circle and X next to various positions - I assume that the X is a bad choice, and that would be when the heatpipes are facing down on a vertical mobo, but it is not clear what the other 2 symbols mean - is the situation when the heatpipes are facing up vastly better, or more or less the same as when they are facing either side? (east or west).


Thanks!

[Okiwana Okimoto]

Hey Jugurtha,

I will mount a Kabuto today/tomorrow with "best performance ~" position.
Than I make some picture and load it up here

[NogNeetMachinaal]

Hey-hey,

I have mounted the coolers in the suggested way. And they work very good. The Prime95 max heat load temps on both systems went down +15 degrees celsius!
The AMD2+ system moved from +70 to 54/55 (7750 @ 3,18 GHz with 1,375 V !). The Intel system is still under investigation. But sofar, the performance is even better: around 20 degrees!

[Okiwana Okimoto]

Hello,

yes sure. The heat always rises to the top, so to the heatpipe ends exactly like Oli has already described it.

[residentgta]

So what is the "best performance" position now? Heatpipes facing PSU or facing RAM?
I have now in this position is this ok or should i change the direction?



Or it's better this way?

[Okiwana Okimoto]

Hello residentgta,

second picture is recommended by us. If PSU fan works with very high rpm, than it is maybe second best option

Best Regards,
OkI