Asus Triton 81 Skt1366 CPU Cooler

Test Results

I ran the test at both stock settings and overclocked settings in both idle and load conditions to best simulate the working environment of a Home/Office PC.

Stock Settings

The idle temperatures were taken 10 minutes into Windows Vista and CPU load was checked using Windows Task Manager. The Load temp was taken through Realtemp 2.70 and was the maximum recorded temperature during 5 runs of IntelBurn Test 1.6.

Results Analysis

As the results show and as expected, the Asus Triton is far superior to the stock Intel cooler. The superior efficiency of the Asus Triton consistently recorded much lower temps than the Intel cooler. Unfortunately the Intel cooler simply could not cope with the heat of running all four cores with hyperthreading enabled in a high overclocked state (3.8ghz) and despite repeated attempts the CPU just rebooted our system most likely due to the thermal protection on the CPU itself.

Let’s head over to the conclusion where I gather my thoughts on the Asus Triton 81…