Quote Originally Posted by crash5s View Post
This is nothing new. Big heatsinks with heatpipes facing downwards are old hat. And they didn't perform as well as the tower heatsinks, in fact that came out before the tower ones and got spanked. The end result was that while they cooled the motherboard components better, they didn't cool the CPU as well.
This.
It is harder to create an air (wind) tunnel for these.