Thermalright IFX-14: The Next HS King?

[BAMBI]

Thermalright IFX-14: http://www.thermalright.com/a_images/pic/ifx-14.jpg

This huge 140mm heat sink consists of esentially 2 Ultra 120 Extemes!

"Includes a back-side dual heatpipe heatsink" I have no idea where that goes! but looks good

Looks pretty good.

 

[BAMBI]

lol thats mad, how big do heatsinks need to get? xD

Naud

Well unless cases start to get bigger they are running out of space!

 

[BAMBI]

Cant wait to see some bench marks, it must slaughter any competition.

 

[BAMBI]

Hmm not quite, it doesnt have 6 heatpipes, im actually dubious about its performance, id be surprised if it was any better than then 120 extreme, the reason its so good is because of the 2 extra heatpipes, it soaks up loads of extra heat because of this. Also the 120 E already has 'enough' of a surface area to disapate this, no use having tons of surface area if not much carrying the heat (unless its 4 pipes are thicker with more 'liquid metal' overall), put 6 or more heatpipes on that though and it would be a different story..........

Yup the heatpipes do make a lot of difference. If you compare the sizes from the pics you can see that the IFX-14 has heatpipes twice the size of the 120.

 

[BAMBI]

I can't see that back side cooler fitting in very many cases.

What is the backside cooler actually connected to? looks like it goes under the ram slots???