There are many manufacturers of computer cooling products, and today we take a look at CPU cooling products from one of the oldest. Spire have been around since 1991 and they certainly have enough experience in the field to produce a high quality product.

The two CPU coolers which we received from Spire are the VertiCool II and DiamondCool II coolers. They are both designed to offer above good cooling performance while maintaining a good price to performance ratio. The DiamondCool is just slightly more expensive, so we would expect it to be a correspondingly better performer as well.

VertiCool II ( SP601B3 )

Socket 754 / 940 / 775 / 939 Cooling kit

Dimensions:

Heat sink : 95×65×100 mm (l × w × h)
12VDC Fan : 80×80×25 mm

• Bearing : Ball bearing
• Rated speed : 2300 RPM +/-10%
• Rated power : 1.56W
• Noise level : 19.0 dBA
• Air flow : 25.78 CFM at 2,300 RPM
• Current : 0.13A
• Life hours, Ball : 50.000
• Features : Blue transparent spider fan, 2 heat-pipes, Aluminium Micro-Fin, Copper base
• Connector : 3 pin, mainboard

Intel : Celeron D ~ 2.93 GHz (340J)
Pentium 4 ~ 3.73 GHz (775 Prescott)
Pentium D ~ 3.4 GHz (775 Dual-Core)
Pentium EE ~ 3.73 GHz (775 Dual-Core)
AMD : Athlon 64 ~ 4800+ (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-51 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-53 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-55 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-57 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-60 (K8)
Opteron ~ 2.6 (K8)
Sempron ~ 3300+ (K8)

 

DiamondCool II SP741B3

Socket 754 / 940 / 939 Cooling kit

Dimensions:

Heat sink : 89×80×53 mm (l × w × h)
12VDC Fan : 90×90×25 mm

• Bearing : Ball bearing
• Rated speed : 2400 RPM +/-10%
• Rated power : 2.40W
• Noise level : 21.0 dBA
• Air flow : 41.15 CFM at 2,400 RPM
• Current : 0.20A
• Life hours. Ball : 50.000
• Features : Blue transparent spider-fan, 4 heat-pipes, all copper stamped fin technology
• Connector : 3 pin, mainboard

AMD : Athlon 64 ~ 4800+ (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-51 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-53 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-55 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-57 (K8)
Athlon 64 FX-60 (K8)
Opteron ~ 2.6 (K8)
Sempron ~ 3300+ (K8)

Thermal resistance : 0.285 °C/W