Design and Functionality

Well, here it is – and extremely unusually designed cooling solution:

It is built on six nickel-plated copper heatpipes 6mm in diameter that come out of the copper base and pierce aluminum heatsink plates. The cooler heatsink is cylinder-shaped, hollow inside:

Inside the heatsink there is a turbine that I am going to dwell on later in this review. Thermaltake SpinQ measures 121.6 x 90 x 151.9 mm and weighs 667 g.

The entire heatsink, heatpipes and copper base are nickel-plated.

The heatsink array consists of 50 plates. Each of them is ~0.3 mm thin and the gap between two adjacent plates measures ~1.7 mm.

The key peculiarity of SpinQ cooler is the way the heatsink plates sit on the heatpipes, namely, the way they are shifted:

Thermaltake engineers believe that this “spiral” organization of the heatsink array ensures more efficient use of the turbine airflow at low resistance and low noise. Moreover, the airflow created by the turbine should also cools down the components around the CPU socket. This is what it looks like schematically:

Very interesting solution. However, we have already seen similar approach to cooler heatsink design in Gigabyte solutions and they didn’t impress us with their efficiency at that time. Tests will show what we can expect from our today’s hero, and now let’s continue discussing its features and design.