Quote Originally Posted by L'enFer View Post
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.

As you clearly referred to my posting above, you seem to have misunderstood what I wanted to say.

Did I say that the TRUE will always be superior?

The point is the following:
-the TRUE is an amazing heatsink design with a very poor base finish in most cases
-BUT there are lots of other really great designs out there, like for example this new MUGEN 2 that perform just as good

What I said is that they all perform so good that it is hard spot a real measurable difference. You could repeat the tests 10 times and maybe in at least 50% of the tests you would have a different winner than in the one before. Most likely due to some circumstances that influenced the results. Once the results get very close, the margin of error begins to play a really important role.