HOT Thermalright XP-120 $43

Rapier

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Man that is one big MoFO. Be careful that thing won't fit in many small mid tower cases (e.g. Lanboy) unless the socket is moved lower on the motherboard (toward the AGP Slot).
 

freshspace

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But this is all aluminum. I thought copper is the high end cooling stuff?! What am I missing? Man, did I waste my money in getting all copper heatsinks?
 

CrazyGamer

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From what I've read in a few reviews, the base is copper underneath the nickel plating and I believe the heat pipes were also copper tubing with nickel plating while the rest of the heatsink is aluminum. In one review around 90cfm maxxed (118 cfm produced same results) the potential of the heatsink while a quieter 50cfm fan (vantec stealth) was only a couple C behind for silent performance.
 

DarkKnight

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Originally posted by: freshspace
But this is all aluminum. I thought copper is the high end cooling stuff?! What am I missing? Man, did I waste my money in getting all copper heatsinks?

yeah ur right, copper is better than aluminum. They made the XP-120 mostly aluminum because it would be way too heavy if it was copper.