Originally Posted by
./Cy4n1d3\.
Seriously, I am a calm person, but your slandering of teh Hyper 212 and Cooler Master in general is appaling. You make the claim that Cooler Master doesn't innovate, but they do.
From Cooler Master's 20 year anniversary site "2000: Cooler Master launches the first every heat pipe heatsink. The CH5-5k11 revolutionizes not only CPU cooling but cooling in general. Many product generations later, heat pipes are now commonly used to cool CPUs, motherboards, graphics cards, chipsets, power supplies, and even industrial equipments."
I hear Noctua and Thermalright use heat pipes to great effect.
From the same website "2001: The first ever full copper heatsink, the HCC-002, is launched. It showcases that copper transfers heat better than other materials."
I hear Zalman uses full copy heatsinks a lot, and also Thermalright. Noctua uses full copper for the bases and heat pipes, with aluminum for the fins, on the NH-D14.
Again "2004: With the Hyper 6 release, Cooler Master achieved yet another milestone by settting an industry first. It was the first heatsink fan combo that featured six heat pipes; which was a challenge at teh time as a great deal of precision is required to bend heat pipes into the specified shapes without damaging them."