1kg for a CPU cooler ?

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My imagination, but isn’t 1Kg for a CPU cooler just crazy

Thermaltake were showing ‘Frio’ at CES in Vegas and it’s a monster. I’ve been thinking about building a new OC-rig for Aliens vs Predator etc and I know I’m gonna need to clock the socks off the CPU. This one comes with 2x 2500rpm fans and (so they say) can draw heat from up to 220w on the processor...
Figures quoted at CES show it killing the Thermalright 120 (which is what I have now on a Q6600).

I have had a look around and people think it will come around March – probably in time for the new Core i7 930.

Any thoughts ?
 
Intel's own plastic through-the-board mounts are rated for almost 700g, so a 1kg cooler should be OK if it's bolted through the board to a backplate. Even so, I'd be likely to mount the case horizontally so it helped spread the load a bit.
 
Using a TRUE black here at 790g before adding fan/s, 2 fans in push/pull here. Mine is the black model, though i wouldnt fancy hanging the all copper version from my mobo, 1900g before you add fan/s.
 
Not due to weight so much as clamping force but my Freezer Pro 64 broke the plastic retention bracket on my ASROCK AM2CPU board. Thankfully it was on a daughter board mounted at 90° to my motherboard so mavity kept it on and I worked out what had happened after a couple of BSODs and checked the CPU temp to find it was heating up to over 70°C under load. Replaced the bracked and everything was back to normal, although my overclock at the time was a bit more borderline afterwards.

If that happened to a PC tower with a normal internal setup I think it would have just fallen off and landed on the graphics card. Could have been very nasty.

With my new motherboard I've replaced the stock retention bracket with a 3 pronged thermalright one. I don't understand why AM2 and AM3 boards have a one pronged affair. 3 pronged is bound to be stronger.
 
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