Those things look ugly, perform bad and all this LED crap makes me puke.

Ack, What everrrr...

Please go and report the Gigabyte super cooler Rocket II

exelente!

Is it me or does this heat sink look like darth vader. "It is good that you like this hsf otherwise I would find your lack of faith distuuurbing...."

I have the Mars cooler, and my E6600 runs nice and cool at 12'C above ambient temp at a safe 3.2Ghz (thats at load). The trick with this cooler is not to rely on the terrible fan.. (It's truly pants). But whack a 108cfm 14cm fan over the top of it, and leave the MARS fan on silent mode.. NEVER had this baby over 35'.. I had to hack up my plastic sided 3D aurora to get the fan in... But even with the 14cm fan on low the temp is good...

I believe the main fault of this cooler is the heatpipe position... The heat generated by an 8800GTX can rise from the top of the PCB heating up the cooler, notably the heatpipes, the job of which is to create a greater thermal gradient that metal can alone, when they get too hot that gradient is disrupted. This can be alleviated by turning the GPU fan up to 99%.. and turning the heatsink upside down...

I curious as to whether these Cooler Master Coolers are workable with the 775T slot utilized by the Intel Quad Core lineup? The Mars really looks cool, but the results don't underwrite the appearance. Cooler Master also has the similar looking Sphere. I would assume it is the Mars without the LED, except that the core is copper rather than aluminum. I'd like to see a test on the Sphere. I'm presently running the Arctic 7 Pro on a Q6700 with dual XFX 8800 GT Alpha Dogs and doing fine in an Antec 900. On the other hand, I can always appreciate a flashy LED version to add to the light show...