First impressions

Well here’s the box with most of the information stated above (box mashed during transport). There is also a good diagram of how the “integrated cooling of voltage converters” works and a diagram showing the fluid dynamic bearings used in this cooler.

Upon ripping away the blurb we are left with the cooler itself. It’s quite different to normal CPU coolers because of the cage like structure actually holding the fan above the heatsink sink rather that the fan sitting on the heatsink itself. Upon further inspection I see why this would help.

The fan cage itself is attached to the heatsink by a sort of rubber suspension mechanism that would halt any vibrations from the spinning fan resonating to the heatsink. Clever idea Arctic, I have seen many sort of rubber dampening strips but never a whole structure to suspend the fan.

The cooler is a common air pushed through fins type heatsink with no fancy extras such as heatpipes. The 92mm fan blows air downwards through the fins creating a gradient of cool air for the warmth from the CPU to move up the fins and move into the passing air.