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Soltek SL-85DRS2 Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Wednesday, February 06, 2002

Heatsink and Assembly

On the same account heatsinks for the P4 are not. For this review I choose to use an AVC 117140 "Sun Flower". This cooler is quite large yet is amazing to look at. Here are some brief specs on the "Sun Flower". The heatsink is made up of an extruded aluminum shell that has a sandblasted texture. The center of the heatsink is a solid copper slug that is pressure fit into place. This heatsink comes with its own mounting cage and 70mm 5000rpm fan, which moves about 33cfm of air.

To actually mount this heatsink to the 85DRS2 I needed to remove the fan and upper mounting brackets from the "Sun Flower" cage and place them on the one supplied with the motherboard, this was quite easy to do only taking a few minutes.

After the cage is in place some thermal paste (artic silver in this instance) is applied and the heatsink is put into place. The cage is then reassembled and secured into place by the locking tabs. These tabs basically apply pressure to the top of the heatsink pushing it down on the processor. No more slipping with the screwdriver or broken plastic pieces.