Scythe Ninja Copper

[SlowSpyder]

I replaced my Arctic Cooler Pro with a Scythe Ninja copper cooler. I saw this on Newegg and liked the way it looked, looked at a few reviews and decided I'd buy one. I came to realize that this was a limited edition cooler, Newegg never had them in stock, so it took a bit to find one on sale for a price I was willing to pay, but I finally got it. With my Phenom at 2.8GHz / 1.41 volts the highest I could get it to hit was 64C under the Arctic Cooler, which is certainly starting to get a bit on the warm side. Running the same tests (different days, didn't write down the temps of the room, I'm sure there was some variation) with this cooler Coretemp showed my CPU bouncing between 49-50C throughout the testing. Certainly a pretty nice reduction in temps so far.

This thing is big.
The base is solid copper that is then plated in nickel. Very nice mounting surface.
Comparrison to my old Arctic Cooler.
Another comparrison, I'd say the Scythe is close to 2x as big.
In it's messy home.

Anyway, just figued I'd post this... for no reason really. From the reviews I saw this cooler is just behind the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, which I think is pretty much the best air cooler you can get. The cooler wieghs just over 1,000 grams without the fan, but the AM2+ bracket seems pretty sturdy, we'll see how it holds up.

 

[Zap]

The normal aluminum fin Ninja coolers are some of my favorite. I have four of them (only two in use). The copper version sounds awesome but I'd be scared of the weight. However, dropping 15ºC is great!

 

[AmberClad]

Ah, clever. You welded a beer can :beer: to the Ninja for added surface area and heat dissipation capability.

 

[Elias824]

The ninja coolers are awesome, this is my second one in my system currently. Do you know what the weight difference is between the aluminum and copper versions?

 

[SlowSpyder]

I just did a quick search, the aluminum fin version is 645 grams. The all copper version is 1015 grams I think.

Originally posted by: AmberClad
Ah, clever. You welded a beer can :beer: to the Ninja for added surface area and heat dissipation capability.

Nah, just drank it. And that made me happy.

 

[pcmax]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
I replaced my Arctic Cooler Pro with a Scythe Ninja copper cooler. I saw this on Newegg and liked the way it looked, looked at a few reviews and decided I'd buy one. I came to realize that this was a limited edition cooler, Newegg never had them in stock, so it took a bit to find one on sale for a price I was willing to pay, but I finally got it. With my Phenom at 2.8GHz / 1.41 volts the highest I could get it to hit was 64C under the Arctic Cooler, which is certainly starting to get a bit on the warm side. Running the same tests (different days, didn't write down the temps of the room, I'm sure there was some variation) with this cooler Coretemp showed my CPU bouncing between 49-50C throughout the testing. Certainly a pretty nice reduction in temps so far.

This thing is big.


Another comparrison, I'd say the Scythe is close to 2x as big.

Mommy I'm scared!

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Elias824
The ninja coolers are awesome.

It is certainly awesome in APPEARANCE. It's easily the largest, physically, of the coolers I've owned. It's going on an X2 6000, but I may not end up with it on the MB I'd have preferred (Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe). The BIOS Flash to allow it to recognize the new CPU screwed it up royally, so an Abit K9N SLI may end up in that particular CM 590-based PC (I agree, more than you needed to know).

I have the stock AMD heat pipe cooler that came with the X2 4800 on that CPU in that case now.

 

[myocardia]

I love my Scythe Ninja, although admittedly, instead of buying another one, I recently bought a Tuniq Tower.

 

[nastymatt]

Nice looking hs.

I have the thermalright IFX-14 which is even bigger than that bad boy.. check out spec
110 x 110 x 150 mm
v
146.2 x 124 x 161 mm

It's huge.. can barely see my mobo with it on!!

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Are you running passive with that thing?

 

[SlowSpyder]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Are you running passive with that thing?

http://www.stevesgrandehead.co...cythe1024/P1060684.JPG

You can see the fan clipped on it there. It's a 120mm fan, runs at something like 750 RPM, it's pretty much silent. But, it says it does support passive operation. I can't find the review I saw earlier, but it showed the reviewer using the cooler in passive operation and still getting a good (over 3GHz) overclock on an Intel quad if I remember right. But, I don't see why you wouldn't use the fan, it spins so slow that you can't hear it anyway.

 

[katank]

Originally posted by: nastymatt
It's huge.. can barely see my mobo with it on!!

Some day, we'll need braces for the HSF from our case to secure it properly, lol.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
But, it says it does support passive operation. I can't find the review I saw earlier, but it showed the reviewer using the cooler in passive operation and still getting a good (over 3GHz) overclock on an Intel quad if I remember right.

I've run these things passive on overclocked chips for years. First was my A64 x2 3800+ with a 500MHz OC, more recently a Conroe with around 600MHz OC.

 

[Tweakin]

Scythe Ninja's rock...best HS I have ever used, and that has been many. 64c with linepack, 58c normal full load.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Originally posted by: Tweakin
Scythe Ninja's rock...best HS I have ever used, and that has been many. 64c with linepack, 58c normal full load.

If you like that one, you should look into the all copper version with the spaced out heat pipes.