Alpenfohn K2 Mount Doom Cooler

I reckon quite a few will get snapped up at the new price. Looks a very nice piece of kit.

Mike306 said:

The price has been dropped

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18370286


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see its already been mentioned

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Ordered just now. Though i may hold off on fitting it for a while. As im considering a new case as well.

Updated results:

http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/alpenfoehn_k2_cpu_cooler_revisited,1.html
http://www.vortez.net/articles_pages/alpenfoehn_k2_cpu_cooler_revisited,10.html

Could the fans be used on the NH-D14?
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I was going to say yes but it appears that the corner of the fan frames where the mounting holes are, are too thick for the small black Noctua fan adapters to go through fully. So no.

Helios1234 said:

I was going to say yes but it appears that the corner of the fan frames where the mounting holes are, are too thick for the small black Noctua fan adapters to go through fully. So no.

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Come on Noctua! It time for a change, Brown is no longer the New Black!!!

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Got this in the post today. Absolute behemoth of a cooler. It makes my current super mega look tiny in comparison. Will be fitting it shortly, so ill post up my thoughts on it later. Gota say that it is a very nice looking cooler, and extremely well built.

Well, after some scraping of skin and lots of swearing ive got it fitted.



Had to remove the motherboard from the case, as the cpu backplate access hole on my mobo tray wasnt big enough to install the backplate through. Aside from this, the backplate installation was pretty straightforward. Quite a sturdy mounting mechanism, and no visible warping of the motherboard. Ram slot clearance is fine as im using 12gb of low profile kingstons in a 3x4 config. But by moving the front fan to the other side, my 6gb of ocz reapers would fit fine as well. Also a fairly tall cooler, my case is thankfully able to accomodate it ok.



Really impressed with the build quality, and the fans as well. Much quieter than the pair of vipers i had on the supermega. Not too mention better looking. Though the front 120mm fan will be replaced with a similair speed black and blue Alpenfohn wingboost i have.

Cpu temps currently idling at, 36-32-36-32, i7 920@ 4.0ghz, 1.3125v, fan speed of 557 rpm. 5c lower than the supermega with the vipers at 800 rpm. Ran a quick run of LinX. Max temps of 73-70-69-67, 3-5c down from the supermega, fan speed maxed at 1654 rpm, much quieter again than the 1900 rpm vipers. All in all, a very impressive product, and very well priced. Much better so than the supermega which cost £70.00 when purchased. Which came with no fans.

Glad you like it Setter. It looks great in your rig and I can see why you want to put the blue and black fan in there.

Yes, it's a fantastic piece of kit. Beautifully built. I have two wingboost fans, one will go on the cooler front and the other as a rear exhaust. Theyre currently on a TRUE in my other rig. All 3 will be ran via a PWM splitter cable. I can certainly agree with your point in the review regarding the fan clips. Theyre incredibly fiddly to fit. The prolimatech ones were much simpler. However, once fitted theyre incredibly secure. The silence from the fans is such a nice change from the drone of the vipers, even at load theyre so much quieter.