| NZXT HAVIK 140 CPU Cooler |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Cooling | ||||||||
| Written by David Ramsey | ||||||||
| Tuesday, 16 August 2011 | ||||||||
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Closer Look: NZXT HAVIK 140NZXT presents the HAVIK 140 in a plain white box that showcases the cooler's unusual fan blade design. 
The box contains the bare heat sink, two 140mm fans, a Y-cable so that both fans can be powered from a single 3-pin header, and the mounting hardware for AMD and Intel sockets in resealable plastic bags. The fans are not PWM-controlled, which is disappointing, especially at this price level, but at least their power cables are sleeved.
The heat sink is comprised of 46 fins pierced by 6 nickel plated copper heat pipes. Two 140mm fans, each rated at just over 90CFM, provide a "push-pull" airflow through the heat sink.
With the oversized 140mm fans attached, the HAVIK 140 is ready for action. NZXT claims the unusual design of the fan blades helps reduce noise and improve airflow.
The top of the cooler is plain aluminum, without any embossed logos or plastic shrouds. For the price, it seems odd that NZXT didn't take the opportunity to brand the cooler in a way that would be visible in a windowed case. 
The base of the HAVIK 140 isn't a mirror finish, but the surface graining is too fine to be felt with a fingernail.
Let's take a closer look and then mount this cooler.
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Comments
Since you follow the cooling market well, is there anything on the horizon from the cooler manufacturers you're aware of that I may want to hold out for? I've got some fairly ambitious plans for the next 6-9 months involving a new build/upgrade, however it best works out. The future of coolers isn't as well reported as the future of CPUs and MBs.
What setting did you use to overclock and overvolted your Core i7-950 I used in your heat sink test machine? As I have the same!!
Derek
I almost didn't read this, one, becasue I'm not on the market for a cooler, and two, I know about how these fans in this area will fall out. I wasn't surprised here, except that how poorly the NZXT fan really performed compared to its cost and its fugliness.
As far as temperature goes, it performed great, since all of the temps you recorded were very low, and so all of the coolers you tested are doing a good job of heat dissipation. So where does this leave a buyer? Looking at cost and design. This thing looks like something out of a Steam Punk photo contest at Deviant Art.
On the subject a little, I'm wondering why my 3.8Ghz clocked 920 only uses 1.264 volts under load? My last mother board was the Gigabyte UD5 Extreme rev 1 and I had to run the core voltage w here you have yours, maybe even 1.38 if, I remember correctly. With the new Extreme UD 5 rev2, I'm only using 1.264v and just as stable. That equates to about a 10C drop in heat for me too. Why do you think that is?
Checked this using a steel straight edge and seen light through it in both directions.
Need i say that my temperatures increased using this.
The rubber band fan mounts were terrible to fit in my very large case.
Glad to get rid of if and would Not recommend