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The Heatsink
Heatsink
| Dimensions | 96x82x120 mm |
| Weight | 980 g |
| Material | Six heat pipes and 100% Copper stacked fins with copper base |
| Application | P4 (socket 478) and K8 (socket 754/940) |
The heatsink is made out of copper and when you look at the weight of the unit you realize that Cooler Master have used a lot of it. Around it is a cage that is used to direct the air flow and mount the fan (or two fans). From the top part of the cooler you can notice how the six heat pipes go through the aluminum cage. This design also leads to the first problem. Because there isn't anything keeping the aluminum cage from moving around the heat pipes, you will get some noise from it. For example small rubber washers would have eliminated this discomfort.
Heat pipes
Heat pipes are located next to each others along the bottom part of the heatsink. From there the heat coming from the CPU will vaporize the water inside the heat pipes thus carrying the heat from the base of the heatsink to the cooling fins higher up. This way the heat doesn't have take a slower route and travel via metal like in those more conventional coolers.
Jagged edges
One thing that catches the eye are the edges of the fins. This kind of design adds more surface area to the edge of the fins, theoretically improving the cooling power of them. Great engineeing innovation and hopefully we see some good numbers on benchmarks because of them.
Base
Base of the unit is also made out of copper. Base itself is relatively thick but because the idea is to heat up the heat pipes as fast as possible there is no need for overly thick base plate. From here you can also see the fan cage curving away from the base. This kind of design should help to prevent problems with near by capasitors on the motherboard. On some motherboards there are also different kinds of problems that may arise when installing this cooler but more about this in following pages.
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