Updates Concerning the Xigmatek Achillies

[Spawne32]

blah! shelves! now!


i'm guessing it will be a similar price point as current xigmatek products? i hope they don't start going with high end prices now that they know they compete in the high end market.

i imagine it will be priced similarly to the red scorpion

[delewin]

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