Swiftech Heatpipe Tower

[Vapor]

Just saw the new www.swiftech.com homepage; 5th (last) image in the flash image cycler is a new air cooler I haven't seen before.



Cursory glance shows some good things...staggered heatpipe positioning, sealed sides, non-flat sides. Hopefully it has the typical, great Swiftech mounting hardware too.

[lowfat]

Looks pretty small from the picture. Still interested to see how well it performs though.

[pcaddict]

I hope to see good temps with that :3 Swiftech does very good watercooling stuff

[ScottALot]

There's probably a radiator and a pump inside of the fins.

[zanzabar]

http://www.swiftech.com/polaris120heatsink.aspx

its a $60 5 pipe hdt, so it should under preform the xig unless its got some magic

[lowfat]

Not a fan of the mounting system at all.

[Vapor]

Not a fan of the mounting system at all.

Yeah, doesn't look like the best, or at least compared to what they've had for the Apogee GTZ/XT/XTL.

The airflow chambering looks really interesting. Looks really, really restrictive though....wouldn't doubt it benefits more from push+pull more than other heatsinks (but there's no second fan spot).

[phantomferrari]

does anyone know if the 849g weight is with or without the fan

[Cory]

It looks like they did a really good job with the base. There's barely any gap between the heatpipes.

[ScottALot]

Is that necessarily a good thing to not have space between the heatpipes?

[zanzabar]

Is that necessarily a good thing to not have space between the heatpipes?

i would think so as if they touch it would ballance the heat and the closer they are the more pipes would contract the hot part, but HDT is not the best method for a large number of pipes.

[vengance_01]

I wonder who the ODM is?

[lilmanmgf]

Hmm, should be interesting to see some reviews on this. Any idea why they still sell their old school heat sinks?

[bot@xs]

ODM guess, Sunbeam

[vengance_01]

ODM guess, Sunbeam

if I had to guess thats what I would go with. Nothing wrong with sunbeam, but the product is priced to high.

[bot@xs]

nothing wrong with it at all. price i might agree with but sunbeam makes good stuff.

[lilmanmgf]

Yeah 60 seems very high compared too the competition.

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[lowfat]

It is now available @ PPC's
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...ducts_id=30407

[bot@xs]

i will be taking a look at this cooler and put it through it's paces for the next few weeks for TechREACTION.
i will post a link once it's done for anybody interested.

[BeepBeep2]

sunbeam makes good stuff.

Shoulda taken pics of my CCF when it arrived way back when.

Tweezers, a wrench, pliars, screwdriver were involved in preparing it for use.

[fatherTime27]

Looks pretty nice

[gabe]

The first two reviews are out:

http://www.overclockersonline.net/re...-120-heatsink/

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/395...iew/index.html

[bot@xs]

wow, that was pretty quick

[danielkza]

I don't get why they disregarded push-pull completely with such a dense fin array.

[stangracin3]

I don't get why they disregarded push-pull completely with such a dense fin array.

i wouldn't mind seeing a review with push/pull high speed yates...