Thermaltake Big Typhoon

Rightly named, it's not just a typhoon. It's a Big Typhoon. And possibly dangerous.

Plastinium has become one with yet another element -- copper. It's also formed itself into one of the largest CPU heatsink/coolers to have hit the labs. Rightly named, it's not just a typhoon. It's a Big Typhoon. And possibly dangerous.

Aside from being a behemoth, it's a sensible construct, with a copper core and six copper heatpipes which lead up to the 140 thin aluminium fins. This just makes sense, as copper is best for transference of heat and aluminium for dissipation.

Firing Chernobyl up at 80W, we tied down certain items of value in the Labs. Having taken cover, we spun her up. Sucking air top-down, it managed a respectable 47°C in a 28°C ambient -- and it didn't break anything, either. Which was handy. And in fact its hardly audible, so it either sucked us into a black hole of distorted space-time, or it spun at a peak of ~1300rpm, rated at a blissful 16dBA. There's no speed controlling potentiometer, but it hardly needs reducing. Definitely decent.

If you can actually manage to fit it in your case, you have yourself a head start. The only other major drawback is the insane weight. If you don't mind dangling 813 grams of pressure on a focussed area of your mobo, you should either be wearing a 'hugging jacket' or be grabbing one of these.

Overall, it'd make a serene cooler for the close-to-silent system, albeit hefty on the wallet. Just be sure you have plenty of room around the area above the CPU. It's voluptuously colossal.