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On the test bench today is Xigmatek's mid-compact Loki SD heatsink. The Xigmatek Loki SD stands mm tall, weighs grams, comes equipped with a 92mm fan mounted on rubber vibration absorbing fan posts and will support a second 92mm fan if desired not included. Over the next few pages Frostytech will tell you if the Loki SD is worth its weight in aluminum, or junk for the recycling bin. Let's begin. Standing just mm tall, the Loki has a footprint of 94x76mm which is pretty compact in this day and age.
With an eye towards noise reduction the 92mm PWM fan is held in place on the aluminum fins of the heatsink with four vibration absorbing rubber mounting posts. These fit through the standard screw holes in a vaneaxial fan frame and keep the fan elevated 2. The nice thing about rubber fan posts is that when a fan motor happens to develop vibrations down the road usually as a result of dust buildup in the impeller the rubber 'shock absorbers' can reduce it slightly.
The bad thing about rubber fan posts is installing the fan over them in the confines of a case, or worse yet snapping a rubber post in half! Depending on the computer case you may need to remove the motherboard to install this heatsink. After the upper metal stand offs are installed, subsequent CPU swaps are more straightforward.
AMD platforms make use of the same basic heatsink brackets, which is a shame since AMD supplies a heatsink retention cage on every single board. The brackets take a little bit of time to install but will firmly hold the heatsink in place. For a mid-compact heatsink such as the Xigmatek Loki which weighs grams, standard Intel-push-to-click retention brackets would have been a welcome addition. FrostyTech's Test Methodologies are outlined in detail here if you care to know what equipment is used, and the parameters under which the tests are conducted.
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