Specifications

The specifications were gotten off of Thermaltake's Polo735 product page.

Bundle

You get so much with the Polo735. The kit was so jam packed with material that it was bursting at the seems.

This is what you get:

  • 1 x Polo735 Heatsink
  • 1 x PCI Slot Rheostat
  • 1 x 3.5" Bay Rheostat
  • 1 x Thermal Probe
  • 1 x 1"x1" Thermal Tape
  • 1 x K7 Retention Clip
  • 2 x P4 Retention Clips
  • 1 x Retention Bar
  • 2 x Springs
  • 2 x Plastic Washers
  • 2 x Screws
  • 1 x Instruction Manual
  • 1 x Blue Jumper

First Impressions

My first thoughts of this heatsink was that it looked very similar to its older brother, the Volcano 11. Both were made out of copper, but that's where the similarities end. The Polo735 is made out of 66 fins where as the Volcano 11 is composed of 43 fins, making the Polo735 the winner when it comes to surface area.

Taking the contents out of the packaging, I was a little dissapointed by the fact that the 3.5" bay rheobus was a little bent, but that was easily rectified in a couple of seconds with some creative bending. Something that also dissapointed me was the fact that the under side of the heatsink isn't very polished. A smoother surface would provide a better contact area for thermal conduction.

Eager to install the Polo735, I plowed through the instruction manual to see what the procedure was to mount this on my VNF3-250. Unfortunately I had to look around for my set of precision screw drivers. It would have been convenient if Thermaltake had provided this, but what geek would be caught without his tools around the workshop.

Mounting the Polo735 proved to be a little challenging on the VNF3-250. In fact it proved rather impossible. The screws were not long enough to reach the bottom retention clips as shown in the picture from Thermaltake. The difference from looking at the picture from Thermaltake is that the bottom portion of my rention clip doesn't extend that far up and would require me to apply excessive force to even get the screw all the way down below the motherboard. Supplying a bottom plate for retention may help resolve this issue.

Seeing as I couldn't mount it on the VNF3-250, I was forced to test the heatsink using a Leadtek K7NCR18-D Pro II motherboard. Mounting this was fairly simple after inserting the K7 clip provided with the kit.