You can identify the cooler by the characteristic tilt relative to the mainboard’s plane.

Coolers of the “tower” design have a lot of strong points, but they do have one obvious drawback – they do not cool the PCB near the CPU socket. Meanwhile, the MOSFETs there can get as hot as 80-100°C or more when the CPU is under load. Some cooler manufacturers just ignore this problem, but Scythe found a smart solution – they simply positioned the cooler with a tilt.

The base is not very thick and is superbly polished:

The installation procedure gave me some apprehensions: the capacitors were right under the cooler’s fastening plate, but the pressure seemed to be strong.

The Scythe Katana 775 could overclock the Intel Pentium 4 512 to 280MHz FSB frequency and the CPU temperature was 71°C at that.