The new Scythe Mugen 2 vs Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme-1366

[L'enFer]

Why do so many people here like to explain TRUE's loose to other heatsinks by the imperfection of its surface? No doubt, it'a a really great cooler, but there're also many other heatsinks which can perform as well as U120 eXtreme do. For example, a new Thermolab Baram. It can beat the TRUE and even if there's temperature difference it will not be more than 2 degree. But Baram is cheaper, its base is well polished and there's no need to improve it.

I saw the test where SI-128SE beated TRUE in case, but TRUE performed better on the opened stand.

IFX-14 can also outperform Ultra 120 eXtreme (I know about Vapor's comparison of TRUE, TRUE Cu and IFX-14, but actually the results seem to me a little strange).

Anyway the choice is yours, but for price/performance criteria TRUE isn't the best anymore if it was it at another time.