Thermalright copper 120

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:23

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme Copper.
any of you guys seen this thing, its a beast. weighs 1.8kg of pure copper.

has anyone on this forum got one

? wonder if it is a lot better than the normal version, if the bottom is not lapped well, all that money...

looking at what people are saying about it and i wonder if motherboards will support the weight if standing upright.

Monkeynut · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:42

1.8Kg? That must have one hell of a bracket. :eek:

Monkey Puzzle · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:44

It looks lovely, but I wouldn't want that much weight hanging off the motherboard, and also it doesn't seem to perform much if any better than the aluminium finned one - presumably the heat getting from the base/heatpipes to the fins is the limiting factor?

Kalpsn2000 · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:45

Dam that looks gooooood!

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:45

they say it is only intended for motherboard that are mounted horizontally.

it is also a limited edition and only 3000 were intended to be made ( dont know how many were atuchaly made)

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:48

Monkey Puzzle said:
It looks lovely, but I wouldn't want that much weight hanging off the motherboard, and also it doesn't seem to perform much if any better than the aluminium finned one - presumably the heat getting from the base/heatpipes to the fins is the limiting factor?

i always think that when looking at all heat sinks, imo they should start of with a solid block of metal and form the fins from this this ofc would be very very heavy and expensive tho.
a couple of pipes dont seem to transfer enough fast enough and also look at that design i bet only 1/3 of the fin closest to the pipes will be transferring heat the center of the fins will prob be 1-2degrees over room temp.

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:50

also about the weight, one guy designed a Perspex bracket to hold the weight of the MB. got a clock of over 4ghz on a 920 i7, that is rivaling water cooling but i bet it was noisy.

Monkeynut · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:51

Why haven't they gone for a direct pipe touch or whatever it's called, like Xigmatek use?

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:53

Monkeynut said:
Why haven't they gone for a direct pipe touch or whatever it's called, like Xigmatek use?

im guessing the purpose of this was not to produce a good cooler but as a limited edition version so wanted to keep everything the same, also i bet it worked quite well as a little bit of advertising.

AMG · 6 Apr 2009 at 14:55

damm that looks sweet and how much does it wiegh? :O O_O need hell of a mounting system for thatO_O

Monkey Puzzle · 6 Apr 2009 at 15:18

Monkeynut said:
Why haven't they gone for a direct pipe touch or whatever it's called, like Xigmatek use?

When lapping the base (to get it as flat as it should have been made) just keep going til you see pipes.

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 15:50

Monkey Puzzle said:
When lapping the base (to get it as flat as it should have been made) just keep going til you see pipes.

can you lap a heatsink, assumed it was only for cpu chips.
ofc i know this is only a joke

Ben M · 6 Apr 2009 at 15:53

square_nothing said:
can you lap a heatsink, assumed it was only for cpu chips.
ofc i know this is only a joke

Of course you can lap a heatsink. The TRUEs are infamous for their concave bases (allegedly to make them fit better with the convex IHS on chips) so people just lapped both their chip and their heatsink, et voila, perfect contact.

square_nothing · 6 Apr 2009 at 15:56

Ben M said:
Of course you can lap a heatsink. The TRUEs are infamous for their concave bases (allegedly to make them fit better with the convex IHS on chips) so people just lapped both their chip and their heatsink, et voila, perfect contact.

ah cool, would this be done in the same manner as the cpu would be then?

Monkey Puzzle · 6 Apr 2009 at 17:09

square_nothing said:
ah cool, would this be done in the same manner as the cpu would be then?

Yep, though 1.8kg would probably tear up the wet'n'dry paper quite a bit.