Noctua NC-U6 Chipset Cooler

The Austrian designed Noctua NC-U6 appears to have what it takes to be a player in today's overclocking world, and it looks the part with two copper heatpipes; twenty-nine aluminum cooling fins; and the Brobdignagian dimensions of 85 mm tall by 70mm wide (almost sounds like a CPU heatsink). But in todays world of egg-frying chipsets, looks mean nothing without results. So lets find out how it stacks up.