Scythe's Big Shuriken is one of the smallest heatsinks we've ever seen.
With a name like Big Shuriken you'd half-expect Scythe's newest heatsink to be a circular disc of death (that also happens to do a decent job at cooling, when it's not busy being used by ninjas).
However the Big Shuriken doesn't quite manage to accomplish this ninja-tool image, though what it achieves is perhaps more exciting.
It packs in four heatpipes that are bent over double to provide a whopping eight paths for heat to travel, a nice shiny nickel base and plenty of aluminium fins that are cooled by a slim 120x12mm fan.
Impressively the Big Shuriken is anything but at a height of only 58mm - barely higher than a typical Intel reference heatsink!
It's got support for every socket you'd ever want to use (and some you'll never need), covering Intel Socket 478, LGA775/1156/1366 as well as AMD Socket 754/939/940 and AM2/AM2+/AM3.
While the performance of this heatsink remains to be seen in testing, head into the gallery of pics to see the Shuriken in more detail, and keep checking the mag for a full review in an upcoming Issue.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012