Scythe Rolls Out Lori CPU Cooler
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Scythe has released its Lori CPU cooler for mid-range systems.
Scythe has initiated the sale of its Lori mid-range CPU cooler.
The cooler is built using a medium sized, downward facing aluminum fin stack, to which heat is fed through three copper heat pipes. On top of the unit users will find a 100 mm fan that can spin up to 1800 RPM, but keep the noise level below 26.7 dBA.
The cooler will be compatible with pretty much any modern-day CPU socket you throw it at, including AMD's AM3+, FM2, as well as Intel's LGA1150 and LGA2011 sockets. It'll weigh only 400 grams.
The cooler has an MSRP of $35 and should either already be in stores or will be arriving soon.
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Practically all PC hardware could be described as "typical" after the first few new devices that introduce a new design idea.
Most "typical" folded-over HSFs have all their pipes coming through one single side while this one has two pipes on one side and three on the other going through the same fin stack instead of each having their own smaller stack, which actually is not that common.
Heatpipes and copper are more efficient at moving heat around than solid aluminum - even the worst modern heatpipe designs outperform most solid-aluminum designs, which is why solid aluminum heatsinks are nearly extinct beyond low-power applications. Copper is too heavy and expensive to make cost-effective all-copper heatsinks so we have copper heatpipes with aluminum fin stacks to balance cost, weight and performance.