Nexus HOC-9000 review

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Review Date: 21 Jul 2008

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Phil Hartup

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

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Nexus's HOC9000 is another heatpipe cooler, but it has a slightly different design to most of the coolers here.

Its heatpipes merge into the contact plate so they draw heat directly from the processor. This makes it a very efficient conductor of heat, and its large 120mm fan spins slowly and quietly.

Though the Nexus is a large cooler it uses standard LGA775 pushpins or the usual socket AM2 bracket, making installation a fairly easy task. It's a reasonably powerful cooler. It was near the top of the group for socket AM2 cooling at idle, managing 29°C, but its temperature of 38°C under load was average. It was the most effective LGA775 cooler at idle, keeping our processor at just 45°C, and came fourth in the group under load with 59°C.

Nexus's HOC9000 is impressively effective for a cooler with standard AM2 and LGA775 mountings. However, Asus's Triton 77 is just as easy to fit, almost as effective and significantly cheaper.

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