Quote Originally Posted by Vapor View Post
I honestly don't know how it would perform in a case....
hey Vapor, super comparison!

have you been offered a Tuniq to test in this comparison?...i can send you mine to test so you can include it in your results...i just would like it back once finished...i can send you round trip postage so it won't cost you anything but time...LMK

as to the heat issue with this IFX-14 HS; IMO, i think this heatsink has an engineering design flaw.

i saw you mention about the inner 2 pipes were more to the middle of the HS versus being located to the outer edges in relation to fan flow and fan hub size...my observation about the overall HS is this: you have a problem of dissipating the heat from the 1st heatpipe high rise to not influence the heat dissipation off the 2nd heatpipe high rise...higher case temperature caused by the heat exchange off the 1st heatpipe high rise NOW passing through and maybe around the 2nd heatpipe high rise is the downfall of this pipe....personally, a poor design especially when you consider this beast in a closed case.

i would think TR would have better served themselves by just producing the secondary heat pipe to be added on to the Ultra Xtreme...NOW...that seems like a better thing to help the Ultra along with more heat dissipation.

anyway, if you are interested in test comparison with the Tuniq, i would be happy to send it to you roundtrip