Quote Originally Posted by MrToad View Post
With all due respect I've read no bashing so far in this thread.

Saying that something is ugly is not bashing, is a matter of taste.

Of course is just an educated guess, but speculating that you may need more powerful fans to push/pull air through it seeing it's thickness I think is a reasonable speculation. Besides, again, speculation =/= bashing.

Finally, that thing looks unwieldy. I mean, even by our standards is BIG. Speculating over wheter if/how would fit or not in a case is again not bashing.

As I said before, personally I'm unexcited. They could make a 200.8 sixtuple pass radiator and it would dissipate more watts than my current 120.3's... however, I would need to put in on a separate room.

What would excite me is something smaller and more wieldy than the current available products that would perform the same. That I would consider a real breaktrough. Increasing the size to increase the performance... well, gives you choice, but that's about it...
There comes a point where you can only get so much fin area in such a small form factor, and you can only get so much performance out of that fin area. You can only get so much flow through the radiator. Instead of increasing fin density (and thus, fin area), they increased the form factor of the radiator, to maintain a low fin density so people can use slower fans and keep noise down.

Like I said before, you can only get so much flow and fin area at a given noise level, and that limits performance. To increase performance, you have to increase the fin area, and the only way to increase fin area without increasing noise is to make the fin density go down so you can use quieter fans, making form factor size go up.

I think this rad is taking Thermochill's thick rad, low fin density to a whole new extreme. Low fin density, but huge fins in an even bigger form factor. Even more performance for those who need it quiet, in a slightly larger form factor.