Thermalright IFX-14: The Next HS King?

You know, i'm trying to work out if thats meant to be a butterfly, or...


... an elephant wearing Elton John style sunglasses :p
 
BAMBI said:
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This huge 140mm heat sink consists of esentially 2 Ultra 120 Extemes!
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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..........

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Thermal right heatsink case:

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http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?op...=18&Itemid=41&slideshow=20070607&currentPic=2

And this pic is making me want to go on a thermal right spending spree! :D :

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Combat squirrel said:
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..........
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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.
 
That heatsink is a bit silly imo, I'd rather get something like a Zalman and have a couple of degrees higher but about 4 times smaller and not have to worry about it fitting on my motherboard.
 
flibby said:
That heatsink is a bit silly imo, I'd rather get something like a Zalman and have a couple of degrees higher but about 4 times smaller and not have to worry about it fitting on my motherboard.
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Or having to use a RSJ to keep it in position.
 
flibby said:
That heatsink is a bit silly imo, I'd rather get something like a Zalman and have a couple of degrees higher but about 4 times smaller and not have to worry about it fitting on my motherboard.
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Or you could just read the compatability list and then know before you buy if it will fit or not ;) :p
 
Combat squirrel said:
Or you could just read the compatability list and then know before you buy if it will fit or not ;) :p
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True, but still personally I'd rather have something a lot smaller. I use a Scythe Ninja at the moment and I class that as massive, this new Thermalright one is off the chart. So I guess I'd still want something smaller like the Zalman's than something that looks like it's out of the new Transformers movie :)

Plus, I can imagine this new Thermalright heatsink is a nightmare to install.
 
flibby said:
True, but still personally I'd rather have something a lot smaller. I use a Scythe Ninja at the moment and I class that as massive, this new Thermalright one is off the chart. So I guess I'd still want something smaller like the Zalman's than something that looks like it's out of the new Transformers movie :)

Plus, I can imagine this new Thermalright heatsink is a nightmare to install.
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Well smaller means less cooling performance, end of. If your just doing it for looks, id still say the IFX-14 looks awesome :D.

As for installation, its no more difficult than any other heatsink realeased that requires you to remove the mainboard, fairly straight forward affair, just requires patience and taking your time while you do it, and shouldnt go far wrong :)

But if at end day your not comfortable with that, then thats cool, just have to get heatsinks that use clip on methods, or something similar to stock coolers. Mind you saying that, bolt through heatsink mounting I find much easier to install, the last large 'clipon' heatsink I tried to install was a nightmare, ridiculous and took me ages and was well annoying, wacking a large heatsink on then turning 4 screws is much easier imo.
 
Combat squirrel said:
But if at end day your not comfortable with that, then thats cool, just have to get heatsinks that use clip on methods, or something similar to stock coolers. Mind you saying that, bolt through heatsink mounting I find much easier to install, the last large 'clipon' heatsink I tried to install was a nightmare, ridiculous and took me ages and was well annoying, wacking a large heatsink on then turning 4 screws is much easier imo.
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Yeah the clip on heatsinks can get very annoying to install when you get a large heatsink that uses this method. In fact some even require you to pretty much have to either remove stuff from the computer like graphics cards / case fans or the motherboard itself to get the pins pushed in properly, and same for taking it out again.
 
impressively its not much heavier than the Ultra's, and there are much heavier out there!

BIG though.

*drools*

we wantsssss it preciousssssss, we wantsssss it NOW!
 
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