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Gigabyte G-Power Lite

     The fan will already be attached to the heatsink and fitted inside the molded shell, so all you'll have to do is pick out your mounting hardware to fit the cooler to your CPU.  To choose between high and low speed fan operation, Gigabyte provides an in-line resistor which will be connected between the cooling fans power connector and the motherboards CPU fan power header. This is also pre-assembled and looks like nothing more than a 2 inch 3-pin power wire extension. I feel the fan runs quiet enough at its full speed, but the option is there for users with more sensitive ears.

     Here is the adapter that will go with the Intel Pentium 4 on an LGA775 setup. The only draw-back to this is, if your motherboard is already in an enclosure then it will have to come out to get the adapter installed. This is also the same type of adapter that Gigabyte used with the 3D Galaxy water cooler setup, and it works just as well. The clips do take a bit of coordination to get hooked up on both sides, but a little patience will get the job done without breaking anything.

     My last review before CES was on the Gigabyte 975X motherboard, and here we see a close up of the G-Power Lite installed on that motherbaord. Even with the extra air ports that Gigabyte put on the motherboard, the G Power Lite still fits with ease. The extension of the heat pipes gives the heatsink a lot of vertical clearance, so the G Power Lite shouldn't interfere with anything.

     Testing with the Intel CPU

     With the G Power Lite attached to the Gigabyte G1 Turbo motherboard, the Pentium 4 "630" was ramped up to an overclocked speed of 3.9Ghz and stressed with Prime95. Temperatures were taken through out testing with the focus being the idle and 100% max load. The idle temperature is an average of temperatures taken over a 30 minute span of idle system operation. The 100% maximum temperature is an average of the processors temperature over a 30 minute cycle after operating at 100% for 45 minutes.