Spire TME III CPU Cooler Heatsink

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Spire TME III CPU Cooler Review

[slugbug]

Good review George. It looks like a good cooler.

[BackDraft]

Never used Spire, but it looks like it performed pretty good.
Quiet is what I like.

[Cella]

Really impressive cooler. Great looking (the finish is awesome in person), good cooling and literally the quietest dual fan I have tested excepting Noctua and Phanteks models.

Since we are in the forums.....it's a Zerotherm, and exactly what I expected from a Zerotherm....but the mounting was better than the past two generations. I still want to find the guy who designed this mount and bust his kneecaps with a tire iron on a daily basis (trust me, he deserves it for putting this kit out in the world), and AMD users are going to still have a much harder install than necessary.

It's too bad I didn't get to test this on a 1366 or Bulldozer (there is no 2011 mount for it....WTF?????). The direct contact area is huge, two pipes don't even touch an 1155. I can say with 90% certainty that this cooler would be an absolute monster on a physically larger chip where it could use all of its potential. I'll probably update when I put my Bulldozer rig back together.

In the end, I definitely wound up a Spire fan. (no pun intended)

[rrplay]

Really impressive cooler. Great looking (the finish is awesome in person), good cooling and literally the quietest dual fan I have tested excepting Noctua and Phanteks models.

The direct contact area is huge, two pipes don't even touch an 1155. I can say with 90% certainty that this cooler would be an absolute monster on a physically larger chip where it could use all of its potential. I'll probably update when I put my Bulldozer rig back together.

In the end, I definitely wound up a Spire fan. (no pun intended)

yeah me def likes the cool n' quiet btw if you get a chance to check it out on your AMD Bulldozer rig let us know ! would be interested to seeing the results.

Thanks

[t.luk]

Never used Spire, but it looks like it performed pretty good.
Quiet is what I like.

Quiet? Nice joke because fans could spin there even @ 1800 RPM and this is not quiet Quiet will be good quality fan spinnig @ max. 1400-1500 RPM like this one from be quiet Dark Rock Pro 2

[rrplay]

... Quiet will be good quality fan spinnig @ max. 1400-1500 RPM like this one from be quiet Dark Rock Pro 2

Nice write-up and comparison with the be quiet! Dark Dark Rock Rock 2 and Pro 2 - test

[Cella]

Never used Spire, but it looks like it performed pretty good.
Quiet is what I like.

Quiet? Nice joke because fans could spin there even @ 1800 RPM and this is not quiet Quiet will be good quality fan spinnig @ max. 1400-1500 RPM like this one from be quiet Dark Rock Pro 2

A little shameless self-promotion never hurt anybody.....

But, be quiet! coolers are rare in the US....significantly more expensive.....move less air....etc.

The Spire fans happen to be very quiet. I did not say that they were the quietest fans on the market.

[t.luk]

Ok, maybe you're right about the market but for me silent fans are fans spining no more then 1200 RPM

[Cella]

Ok, maybe you're right about the market but for me silent fans are fans spining no more then 1200 RPM

And I did state "the quietest dual fan I have tested excepting Noctua and Phanteks"....so even in that statement I said that there were quieter.

Bottom line being, its very quiet for a $60 retail cooler.