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Air cooling systems with direct touch technology (when heat pipes have contact with the CPU’s heat-spreader) have recently been produced in larger volumes than conventional copper-sole coolers. I’ve given you the reasons in my Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme review. This technology is just simpler and cheaper to manufacture while its efficiency is high. On the other hand, Xigmatek’s Thor’s Hammer, the best representative of the direct-touch class so far, is inferior to such leaders as the Thermalright IFX-14 or Scythe Mugen 2.

The manufacturers are not taken aback by that fact, though. They go on rolling out new direct-touch products and I am going to talk about one such cooler, called Alpenföhn Nordwand, in this review.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coo...-nordwand.html

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