Sapphire Announces Its First CPU Cooler
Sapphire has begun offering its first cooler for CPUs.
The company said it is now using its Vapor-X cooler technology for CPUs, which offers a similar architecture as its GPU coolers and leverages a vapor chamber that "is in direct contact with the CPU surface to accelerate the flow of heat away." A heat pipe array with 4x7 mm pipes as well as aluminum cooling fins are used to dissipate the heat.
There are also two 120 mm fans that are identical with the fans used on the Sapphire Dual-X series of graphics cards.
The manufacturer said that the cooler is targeted at CPUs with up to 200 watts TDP, and supports Intel CPUs Core i7/Extreme. i5, i3, Core 2 Duo/Quad/Extreme, Pentium, Celeron as well as AMD FX-series, A-series, Phenom II X2/3/4, Phenom X3/4, Athlon II X2/3/4, Athlon X2 and Sempron. The cooler is available now for $69 MSRP.
There's another fan back there. Sapphire have details on the product page:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=7&gid=1192&sgid=1193&pid=1751&psn=&lid=1&leg=0
I think he means the bottom. Fans cover up the cpu block and the heat transfer pipes, which to be honest it what we are all about.
replace the fans with quieter cooler master sickle flow almost 70 CFM 20db or the aero shark 82 CFM 27db.
they get the job done if using 2, most of the time one fan idles and the other pulses.
they should also make one that has fins like \ / \ / \ / \ instead of ||||. and put plenty of those little dots that increase surface area. pair it with 2 high static pressure fans, and space the heatpipes out so the heat is spread more evenly. i bet you it would be a winner.