Haeds Up - Scythe Infinity is finally shipping

Henny

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This one spanks all other Scythe models and looks like it could even spank a Tuniq Tower.

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Beiruty

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Too much $$ ... I ordered a less than monster Artic Cooling 64 Pro for $20.52 shipped!
 

bigpow

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I'm pretty happy with my Ninja Plus, but I wish they would have a smaller/flatter HSF that would perform close to the Ninja..
Anything that tall would have limited applications... I can't get any HTPC/Desktop ATX that will fit my Ninja :(
 

Fallen Kell

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Originally posted by: bigpow
I'm pretty happy with my Ninja Plus, but I wish they would have a smaller/flatter HSF that would perform close to the Ninja..
Anything that tall would have limited applications... I can't get any HTPC/Desktop ATX that will fit my Ninja :(

It won't fit in a Silverstone LC17, LC18, or LC20? I mean I know it will be tight, and you can't use a 120mm fan on the heatsink because it will add more height, but those cases are 170mm in height, and the Ninja is 150mm... hmm, well not sure now that I think about it, I think the feet are included in that height, would need to know the internal space height of the case...
 

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Interesting! Same mount system as the Mine [pronounced ME-nay]...

So, what we have here is a 5-tube Ninja Plus with Mine mounts.

Um... I think the Tuniq 120 is safe! :laugh:
 

Henny

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Originally posted by: VinDSL
Interesting! Same mount system as the Mine [pronounced ME-nay]...

So, what we have here is a 5-tube Ninja Plus with Mine mounts.

Um... I think the Tuniq 120 is safe! :laugh:

Tuniq Tower beats Ninja + and Mine by 2 degree:

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Infinity beats Mine by 6 dgrees:

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However these guys say Infinity beats Ninja and Mine by only 2.5 - 3.5 degrees:

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This imples that Infinity could beat Tuniq Tower by anywhere from .5 to 4 degrees.

We have the potential for a new world champion. However we need to compare the two directly.

 

VinDSL

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There is no doubt in my mind, Henny, that the Scythe Infinity was designed to bury the competition (including making their existing product line obsolete -- just like Intel and their Conroe) and capture the #1 spot in the immerging Conroe/AM2 HSF market. Aesthetically, however, it looks like yet another Scythe kludge, IMHO...

Kinda odd that nobody has done a direct comparison with the TT120, don't you think? How is this possible?

I tried the Scythe Mine [pronounced ME-nay] recently -- had it for about a month -- and it sucks big time! I hate this thing and can't wait to dump it on some eBay sucker.

LoL! A lot of ppl think these Scythe Mines are great, so if nothing else, this will serve as confirmation of what I've been saying all along... ;)
 

VinDSL

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Originally posted by: Henny
We have the potential for a new world champion. However we need to compare the two directly...
BTW, everything in 'our' world changed when Intel released the Core 2 Duo/Extreme last month. IMHO, all those tests are irrelevant -- although the results may still be somewhat pertinent, comparing one loser with another!

New era... new rules!

Here's the bottom line, Henny:
  • If a HSF will allow an E6600 to run benchmark stable at 4.0GHz, it's a winner :thumbsup:
  • If it can't, it's a loser :thumbsdown:
Nothing else really matters now!
 

Dribble

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Looks like it gets pretty identical results to the lighter and cheaper thermalright ultra-120
 

bigpow

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Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Originally posted by: bigpow
I'm pretty happy with my Ninja Plus, but I wish they would have a smaller/flatter HSF that would perform close to the Ninja..
Anything that tall would have limited applications... I can't get any HTPC/Desktop ATX that will fit my Ninja :(

It won't fit in a Silverstone LC17, LC18, or LC20? I mean I know it will be tight, and you can't use a 120mm fan on the heatsink because it will add more height, but those cases are 170mm in height, and the Ninja is 150mm... hmm, well not sure now that I think about it, I think the feet are included in that height, would need to know the internal space height of the case...

I contacted Silverstone & Ahanix - both said they don't have any ATX case that can fit the Ninja.
 

Wall7486

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Originally posted by: bigpow
Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Originally posted by: bigpow
I'm pretty happy with my Ninja Plus, but I wish they would have a smaller/flatter HSF that would perform close to the Ninja..
Anything that tall would have limited applications... I can't get any HTPC/Desktop ATX that will fit my Ninja :(

It won't fit in a Silverstone LC17, LC18, or LC20? I mean I know it will be tight, and you can't use a 120mm fan on the heatsink because it will add more height, but those cases are 170mm in height, and the Ninja is 150mm... hmm, well not sure now that I think about it, I think the feet are included in that height, would need to know the internal space height of the case...

I contacted Silverstone & Ahanix - both said they don't have any ATX case that can fit the Ninja.


That is surprising as the Tj03 and TJ07 are very big and I would think that they might fit. I have a Scythe Infinity coming in a day or two for my Lian Li G70 and I plan to transfer that heatsink to the Tj03 that I may get in the near future. So I may have to rethink this.

 

bigpow

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Read back a few threads and you'll see that we're talking about HTPC/Desktop ATX - not Tower
I've my Lian-Li PC60, but I want a nicer desktop/HTPC case.
 

Fallen Kell

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Originally posted by: Henny
Originally posted by: VinDSL
Interesting! Same mount system as the Mine [pronounced ME-nay]...

So, what we have here is a 5-tube Ninja Plus with Mine mounts.

Um... I think the Tuniq 120 is safe! :laugh:

Tuniq Tower beats Ninja + and Mine by 2 degree:

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Infinity beats Mine by 6 dgrees:

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However these guys say Infinity beats Ninja and Mine by only 2.5 - 3.5 degrees:

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This imples that Infinity could beat Tuniq Tower by anywhere from .5 to 4 degrees.

We have the potential for a new world champion. However we need to compare the two directly.

Look at your numbers again. The Tuniq Tower works better and better with higher airflow fans compaired against the Ninja in the first link. The Ninja doesn't work as well when you put higher speed fans (i.e. the change temps does not continue to drop as much especially when you see that when the Ninja with a Papst fan at 50% hit 64C and the Tower with same fan at 50% hit 69C, but with the same fan at 100% the Papst hit 59C and the Tower hit 57C, in other words the Ninja beat the Tower by 5C with the slow speed fan, but the Tower beat the Ninja by 2C with a higher speed fan was used). We can't make a compairison between the third article with the Infinity beating the Ninja and expect a result against the Tower because we don't know what speed fan was used. The Infinity will probably do better then the Ninja with higher speed fans, but we don't know that from the articles published yet. If that is true, then the Infinity may be better then the Tower when high speeds fans are used. But it might not be.

As said above, the tests all use different CPU's as well, BUT, if you know the C/W measurements of the heatsink, the change in amount of heat from the CPU will only affect your final temps. In ordering the heatsinks by which has the best C/W (which is temperature rise over ambient per Watt of heat), you will know what is the best heatsink no matter how much heat is being applied since those numbers will not change (unless you hit a threshold of the materials being used that is, i.e. melting points of metals, rupture points of heat pipes).

 

viramor

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Will the infinity even fit in a wind pipe setup with the HS fan blowing towards the back? In one of those websites they weren't able to mount it that way.
 

Baked

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Man, these new Scythe and Sunbeam HSFs are so damn huge and heavy, I wonder if they'll fall off one of these days.
 

thecoolnessrune

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The most I would ever use is the Ultra 120 and even that is pushing it. All that weight just isn't worth that extra 1-2 degrees to me.