Silencing The SOHO
On to the Prime Cooler products: the first item to hit our systems was the PC-VGAC+. This graphics card cooler is made entirely out of copper while offering an adjustable-speed fan to maintain silence in the system while still effectively cooling off the VPU. The RPM regulator is a rather small and needs to be controlled by using a small screwdriver; as unfortunately there is no larger knob or switch for controlling the fan, which is powered by a 3-pin fan connector. Looking at the base of this heatsink, its copper finish was very smooth and flat. In our testing of this heatsink we found it to offer a slight advantage over the stock passive heatsink previously used. Unfortunately, as the Tyan i7221A utilizes integrated graphics we were unable to bring this unit into our SOHO server project.
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The next set of Prime Cooler products we have to examine are the PC-9225L12SMA and PC-8025L12SMA case fans. These case fans are nearly identical with their features except from the part that one is 92mm in size where the other is 80mm. Like the PC-VGAC+, these Prime Cooler case fans also offer a manually adjustable RPM regulator. Other than offering an RPM regulator to achieve silent results, these Prime Cooler fans are rather generic.