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So it's a NH-D14?

NH-D14 clone, maybe. more importantly though it's an NH-D14 clone without the Noctua tax and the **** brown hue.

Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT tends to beat or match the NH-D15 (depends what review you look at) for less money, no reason to think this won't be a similar story.

Thermalright had a two-tower cooler named "IFX-14" over ten years ago, that's older than the NH-D14. That old cooler also had four extra thick 8mm heat-pipes, just like this new one here.

 

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What? That can't be true.

Going to have to be pretty selective with ram unless you can slide that fan up
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This is really the Achilles heel of big air.

On the usual two-tower air coolers, you can use just one single fan in the middle position without really losing performance. The front fan isn't needed.

 

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Thermalright was always been good about offering their coolers without fans, it's one of the things that I have always appreciated about them.


I'm not really sure if that holds true today, it's been a while since I have purchased an air cooler.

They stopped with that a really long time ago, perhaps ten years ago. Practically all of their coolers were then sold with fans.

From the last few years, I just remember the "HR-22" without fan. That one instead came with a shroud/funnel thingy to connect it to a rear case fan.

 

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Someone should bring back the ThermalTake "Big Typhoon" design to get even more absurd.

Do an image search for "Dark Rock TF". That one seems more ridiculous than the Big Typhoon.

 

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Are you using the True Spirit 140 to cool your 9900k?

If you are interested in that cooler, be careful with the name because there are three different "true spirit 140" models and the one with the thick heat-pipes is just the "true spirit 140 power".

 

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Hard to call that even a segment of the market at this point, there are a whopping 2 high end aftermarket GPU coolers left, and both are pretty old designs at this point. Nobody has bothered to release something new in over half a decade.

I don't see this as being a very appealing "segment" for manufacturers to get (back) in to.

Yeah, it seems that market kind of died but I'd still want it to happen. They also had neat little (and not-so-little) gadgets that you could mount to the VRM, with heatpipes and serious heatsink. Alternatives for those don't exist at all anymore.

 

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[...] it would be an impressive cooler if it can [...] perform 95% like a high end cpu cooler

I'm a bit hyped for this cooler here because Thermalright chose to use their very old mounting system where you can customize the mounting pressure (it's that large knob you can see in the middle). That might help this cooler here beat the competition, like perhaps for people that got a bit unlucky with IHS shape of their CPU.

I'm currently battling a bit with an NH-D14 and a 2700X and I suspect more mounting pressure could change my results. The "thin layer" paste method produces much better temperatures on this 2700X here than the dot-method, which shouldn't be the case. That's why I got thinking about mounting pressure.