august 16 2010 review by kitguru

The Coolink Corator DS is produced by the same company as the Noctua NH D14. The Gapless Direct Touch technology has a positive effect on the contact with the processor. At reference voltages, the single fan Corator DS is equal to the Thermaltake Frio with two fans, but @ full load its performance is in between the Frio and the NH D14. This cooler is somewhat quieter, a lot smaller and also cheaper than the DH14.

Overclocking:

The 875k was OCed @ 4.8ghz, vCore @ 1.475v. The differences were 3.5 degrees Celsius between the coratar and the Noctua NH D14 which kept the CPU somewhat cooler.

Installation:

Installation only takes a couple of minutes and caused us no issues at all. A small case might not cope with the cooler due to the length, besides that there is only 41mm of head room for memory.

Fan:

The fan accompanying the Corator DS cooler is called the SWiF2-120P, an eleven blade Hydro Dynamic Bearing fan that spins between 800 and 1700 rpm. This fan is also seperately available.

Test Setup:

Test System:

• Computer Case: Antec Dark Fleet DF 85
• CPU: Intel Core i5 875k
• Graphics Card: Sapphire HD5670 Ultimate Edition
• Motherboard: AsRock P55 Extreme4
• RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 1600mhz Kingston HyperX
• SSD: Crucial 256GB RealSSD

Compared to:

Noctua NH D14 with 2 fans and the Thermaltake Frio