Asus Triton 88 Review - Page 2

As you can see from the Asus specifications, the Triton 88 is compatible with all modern CPU sockets. The heat pipes and base, while all made from copper, are silver/grey in colour, so I’m assuming Asus has plated the heatsink with a silver coloured material to prevent the underlying copper from oxidizing.

  
Box and contents

Inside your box of goodies you'll find clips and brackets for all the above mentioned sockets, as well as some Asus branded thermal interface material (which I didn't use for testing consistency). There's also a spanner for tightening the bolts for the LGA775/1366 screws. At first I thought this was a thoughtful addition, but in the next part you'll see how it would have been all but impossible to install the heatsink without it!

Lots of Goodies!

No installation instructions were supplied with the heatsink. Now myself I didn’t find this a problem, since every part is very well labelled, and by just being logical, it was easy to see what to do. However, some people I know (who might not even know the name of the socket their new processor uses!) might have found this a problem during a build, so I feel this is a notable omission.

  
Box and contents

  
Box and contents

The Tuniq Tower was a great heatsink, and the Triton 88 certainly *looks* like it should perform in a similar fashion, so that's why today as well as testing the Triton against the stock Intel heatsink on a Core i7 920 (which was the original plan), I'm also going to pit it against the Tuniq Tower in an LGA775 Core 2 setup (since the Tuniq Tower isn't currently compatible with the LG1366 platform). I'll even swap out the default heatsink from the Triton 88 for the same as that used in the Tuniq Tower to allow for a direct comparison of the cooling power delivered by these two heatsinks. So if you want to know how the Triton 'stacks up' against the Tower (bad pun intended!), then read on.

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• Introduction
• Specifications
• Packaging and a closer look at the Triton 88
• Installation
• Testing and Methodology
• Results
• Conclusion