Hey all,

I'm looking to buy either of these heat sinks(xigmatek s1284, and sunbeam core contact freezer), but haven't found them available anywhere yet. Anyone know where to buy one?

I shopped around a bit locally for the Xigmatek S1284 but nobody seems to carry it retail. NewEgg has a free 3-day shipping deal on it currently, however, so I'd just do that unless you've absolutely got to have it right this minute.

I'm going to order one when I get off work tonight myself.

thanks for the help, but I only found the S1283 on newegg. could you link the page you found the s1284 on pls?

My mistake, it is a S1283...I didn't even realize there WAS an S1284. My bad, what I get for trying to do this when I'm supposed to be working.

*EDIT* Although the S1284 from the Xigmatek website looks an awful lot like the S1283 Red Scorpion:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233012

I'd like to get my hands on a S1284, and I hope they don't use those frack'n push-pins this time.

Looks like they did going by the Xigmatek website.

Nice-looking heatsink though.

looks like there's a backboard bracket kit, but not sure how to get it.......let alone the heatsink itself

http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

Sunbeamtech is the new champ

No review for the Xigmatek S1284, which adds an extra heat pipe, however. We'll see if they trade positions again when that thing gets out -- I emailed Xigmatek asking where to find them or order them in the United States but haven't heard anything back yet.

It sounds like the mounting for the Sunbeam is a bit sturdier, though, and I like the copper heatpipes more than the nickel-coated ones on the new Xigmatek.

The Sunbeam looks good. And the price is great. However, I am not wild about manual fan controllers. I wonder how an S-Flex fan would work?

Where'd you see a price for the Sunbeam?

I believe they have a price listed on the Frostytech website, which is currently down for some reason. ~$36.99, same as the Xigmatek S1283, which makes sense given that the thing is only slightly cooler but noisier than the Xigmatek S1283.

I'd asked because I didn't see anywhere selling it online.

And the S-Flex fans are pretty quiet. That's what I was thinking about. And the fact that the AC Freezer 7 Pro seems to have increased in price from about $25 - $30 to about $35. So it's not the bargain it used to be.

Per an email from Daniel Tseng, a Channel Account Manager at Xigmatek:
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Xigmatek-USA division is expecting Achilles-S1284 to arrive to the U.S real soon.

We estimate that Achilles S-1284 will be up on the shelf by Summer of 2008 %u2013 June or July.
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So there's a bit of a wait to get this cooler in the United States.

Mr. Tseng also asked in his e-mail for any information regarding good reviews on this product, though the only one I'd found was from Denmark OCTeam.

Personally, since I wasn't intending to try to overclock and just wanted a replacement for the stock cooler, I may end up going with the S1283. Patience has never been my strong point.

thanks for the info. i sent an email to sunbeam, but have heard nothing back yet.

Awesome info. Thanks for doing that contact work!

The first official reivew of the Xigmatek Achilles S1284 HDT CPU Cooler has been posted here: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index. [...] 1&Itemid=1

Nice review.

Waahahhh! I want one!

--Lupi

Good review, but slightly disappointing--unless I'm missing something, the S1284 actually turns in worse performance than its predecessor. I will say, however, that it looks a lot more stylish; whether this makes up for running a bit hotter is up to the individual I would think.

I may hold out for this heatsink since I'm buying it as much for appearance as the extra cooling. If I was a hardcore overclocker who wanted to see if I can get frost to form on the surface of my CPU while running at load it would be a different story.