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Thermalright's latest tower heatsink can be bought now, for sale at FrozenCPU priced $75 (without fan!), it will certainly have to deliver on its promises to make it worth the investment. This is enthusiast grade material folks:

# All new patented multiple support pressure vault bracket system, allow users adding pressure to the bracket system (40~70 lbs.), and have a more efficient and secure mounting.(1366 / 1156 / 775).
# Mirrored copper base increasingly upgrade the quality and the performance of the heatsink.
# Special bent winglet design, allows hot air to pass the heatsink more rapidly.
# Heatsink are all nickel plated to ensure the best quality and performance and could last for years.
# Soldered heatpipes, copper base and fins, to ensure the best thermal conducting efficiency.
# Six sintered heatpipe design, all heatpipes are nickel plated.To slow the oxidation deterioration to the heatpipe, to ensure longer usage and performance of the heatsink for the cpu.
# Including 2 sets of 120 x 25mm fan clips and Chill factor II thermal paste.
# Convex copper base design, to ensure the Highest thermal conducting thermal efficiency between the cpu and the heatsink.

A nice retail package too:

The Venomous-X is compatible with sockets 775, 1156, and 1366. Thus the Venomous-X will conquer the heat produced by any Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. However, the Venomous-X was designed with the future in mind. Six core processors have already been accounted for. This is possible because, our installation hardware allows the end-user to adjust pressure via the "Pressure Vault Bracket". Adjustments can be made from 40-70 lbs of pressure to fit any CPU IHS for the best possible CPU contact. The Venomous-X inherited our 6mm sintered heat pipe design, with soldered contact points with the fins and heatsink base to ensure effective heat transfer to our fin array. Thermalright engineers also increased the fin gap distance by 20% to 1.9mm. This modified fin array incorporating our bent winglet design, allows air to rapidly pass through the heatsink with minimal resistance. Consequently, low or high RPM fans will exhibit excellent performance.

Secondly Thermalright customers have been requesting a mirrored copper base. Done! We have also Nickel coated it to ensure long term usage, preventing oxidation. The base of the Venomous-X is also slightly convex. This design has been proven to increase performance of the heatsink by drawing away heat from the center of the CPU at an accelerated rate. Manufacturing such a base is a complex task, thus we ensure every Thermalright Venomous-X CPU heatsink is produced with the highest of quality standards. Our manufacturing efforts maintain build quality. Every heatsink from the base, heat pipes, fin array, fan and all of the soldering points in between will mirror our original design.

* product page at Thermalright: http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...enomous-x.html
* buy one now at FrozenCPU: http://www.frozencpu.com/products/10...uccessor_.html

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