Installation, Testing and Comparison:

The installation of the Alpine 64 was a pleasant surprise. In fact, after the Shuttle SFF ICE Cooler, the Alpine 64 was the easiest HSF installation that I have experienced. Unlike other HSFs, you do not need to replace the CPU bracket on your motherboard. Also, you do not have to apply a lot of pressure to install the Alpine 64.

Test system:

Opteron 146 running 280 x 10  2.8 GHz

AsRock939 Dual SATA2

2x1024MB Corsair XMSPRO 3500LL

Visiontek ATI x800 PCI-E

Arctic Cooling Alpine 64

AMD Stock Opteron HSF

* Arctic Silver 5 was applied to both heatsinks and

* The test was conducted on an open system.

* The Vcore was 1.4

* Idle temps were after the system was booted and running for half an hour

* Load temps were obtained using OCCT after running for a half an hour

* The Case Temperature was measured

Stock AMD at Idle  32 degrees Celsius

Arctic Coolings Alpine 64 at Idle  36 degrees Celsius

Stock AMD at Load  50 degrees Celsius

Arctic Coolings Alpine 64 at Load  46 degrees Celsius