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Gigabyte Volar CPU Cooler Review (page 2)

Category: Coolers

by Sergey Lepilov

[ 01/21/2008 | 04:01 PM ]

Design and Functionality

Gigabyte Volar design is highly original especially against the background of other solutions available in the market today. First of all we should point out the unusual positioning of the cooler heatsink that sits on heatpipes at 45-desgree angle to the cooler base:

In other words, the aluminum heatsink is sort of hanging over the cooler base and heatpipes coming out of it.

There is a 120mm fan above the heatsink, and its sides are covered with meshed round casing:

If we look at the cooler from beneath, we will see that the heatsink shape is very similar to that of the “boxed” cooler for Intel processors:

And if we remove the fan, we will get the impression that Gigabyte used an Intel’s boxed processor cooler as a basis for their design and modified it by removing the copper center and replacing it with heatpipes:

 
Gigabyte Volar heatsink (left) and Intel boxed cooler heatsink (right)