Updates Concerning the Xigmatek Achillies
Ok well heres the deal, unfortunately the Achillies coolers that were sent out for review are not finalized products, they were for show purposes only. The finalized product will have minor changes in design to it, changes unfortunately i cannot inform you about at this time. However Xigmatek assures me that as soon as the information is available on the changes that are being made, they will forward it to me to pass it along to you guys. Expect to hear this information after Computex. :up:
What does this mean? Try not to use the current reviews you see as the basis of your decision on how well the Achillies performs. I myself am anticipating better performance from the finalized models as Xigmatek takes a great deal of time and effort into ensuring that their designs work well. So if you had high hopes of the achillies you can keep those hopes high because there is still alot more to see from this awesome looking cooler.
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S1284 for a bigger die CPU
I would be a bit surprised that Xigmatek would release a version of an upcoming cooler for review that would be markedly different to final product.
I could understand the changing of the original push pin fixing mechanism to a bolt through as a reasonable, minor modification between pre release and the retail version.
But to change the thickness of the aluminium gap between the copper heat pipes is a major redesign and not something that would be made at "the 11th hour".
As you can see from the picture below, this design is more suited to a bigger die CPU.
Could it be that Xigmatek is building these coolers for the next generation x8 core CPUs?
Just a thought: If Xigmatek supplied a flat, wafer thin piece of copper, the full size of the cooler/CPU surface, to sandwich between a (say E8400) CPU and their S1284 cooler, how effective would the S1284 cooler be?
I would like to hear some of your thoughts.
Regards,
David