Spire TherMax Eclipse CPU Cooler Review

Conclusions

At first look we thought Spire TherMax Eclipse would be an excellent performer. Its construction quality impressed us and with five heatpipes and two fans it looked like we had a winner in our hands. After we realized it is virtually the same cooler as iCEAGE Prima Boss II – which performed very well in our tests – we got even more confident.

But the results from our tests surprised us, showing a mediocre performance. We checked the installation, looking for some error like an inverted fan or something of this sort, but it was all fine. Some readers could ask about the curing time of the thermal compound, but this could not produce a difference in our results that big and all other coolers were tested with no curing time. By the way, we are planning on a comparative test with different thermal compounds and we wish to make some experiments to know if the supposed advantage of a curing period is a fact or a myth.

TherMax Eclipse also has another problem: it has two strong fans without any kind of speed control. If you like silence, you must buy a fan controller as a sidekick for this cooler.

Therefore TherMax Eclipse is not a good cooler. Maybe not it is not a coincidence that
 Spire released TherMax Eclipse II, a product virtually identical to the model we tested, which may mean that the manufacturer knows about the low performance of the first version and improved it in a second incarnation.