Prolimatech, who became well known for their high performance Megahalems air-cooler, are attempting to evoke some of that magic with their latest creation, known simply as Genesis. This new CPU cooler is intended to address a key weakness of heatsinks that use the tower design, by providing down draft over the motherboard for cooling critical system components...

In terms of performance expect nothing but the very best, as we found the Genesis provided the same level of performance as the Megahalems while it was a few degrees cooler than the Armageddon. The Genesis is best configured with at least two fans and we found that the 140mm Xigmatek XLF-F1453 fans supplied by Prolimatech did an excellent job.

Finally we were able to get our hands on the mighty Thermalright Silver Arrow for a round of testing and the results will not disappoint. This massive air-cooler comes bundled with a pair of equally massive 14cm fans which help the Silver Arrow achieve new heights without creating a mini tornado inside your case...

Pricing aside we were very impressed with the Thermalright Silver Arrow, as it matched our previous air-cooled record using an overclocked Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition processor. Prior to testing the Silver Arrow, the coolest we have been able to get our overclocked Core i7 processor under full load with an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees was 58 degrees.

Today we are checking out the latest CPU cooler from Thermaltake, known as the Jing, and yes we know, yet another wacky sounding product. The name is derived from the Chinese, representing “Silence” and carrying with it the concepts of comfort, excellence and exquisiteness. So how silent, comfortable, brilliant and beautiful can a CPU cooler really be? Read on to find out...

There is little not to like about the Jing as it is easy to install, supports all current AMD and Intel platforms, while the price tag of $60 US is quite reasonable given what it offers. Perhaps the only real issue some users might have with this product is its appearance. The Jing is not an ugly CPU cooler, unless of course lime green doesn’t speak to you, which in my case it doesn’t. Given that the flamboyant color scheme does not appeal to me, I am finding it hard to say good things about the design.

Prolimatech just recently announced yet another new revision of their award winning Megahalems heatsink. Known simply as the Super Mega, this new version looks very much the same for the most part, yet weighs almost 20% more thanks to the inclusion of come copper fins. The new fins are designed to try and improve performance further and this is something we will be looking at when testing the Super Mega...

The other disadvantage the Super Mega faces, other than the asking price, is its weight, at 945 grams it’s a big boy and a real flight risk for those that like to move their PC around when attending LAN party events for example. While the custom mounting kit appears up to the job, the Super Mega still places a great deal of strain on the motherboard.

Today we are checking out a new and fairly unusual product from Prolimatech called the Samuel 17, and while it may not look all that unusual at first, keep in mind that this new cooler measures just 45mm tall. That alone is unusual for a company that typically designs heatsinks that stand over three times taller than this...

Those looking to build a small HTPC or even a mini-ITX computer that has a fair bit of guts for taking on more demanding tasks, are going to face the issue of keeping it not only cool but also quiet. The Prolimatech Samuel 17 has proven to be good at both cooling powerful processors and doing so while making very little noise. More importantly, it does all this while measuring just 45mm tall plus fan.

Today we are checking out another high-end CPU cooler, this time from a company called ThermoLab. They claim that their new Baram 2010 heatsink is able to rub shoulders with the industry’s best products and does so without costing a small fortune. Furthermore, this is a truly universal CPU cooler supporting all current and recent AMD/Intel platforms...

In terms of performance the ThermoLab Baram 2010 delivered, working within a few degrees of the much more expensive industry leaders. Although the dual 120mm fan configuration failed to really improve performance, the single fan results were still very impressive anyway. Keeping our Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition processor, which was overclocked to 3.70GHz, at just 65 degrees using a single 120mm fan is a remarkable achievement.

Early this year we put the first Prolimatech built VGA cooler to the test. The MK-13 is an impressive looking product, though we soon found it suffered from a few critical flaws. The most notable of which was the VRM cooling which comprised of a few small heatsinks, and as a result allowed the VRM’s to reach dangerous temperatures. Prolimatech has taken note of our complaints, and updated their package with a new, much larger VRM heatsink which we are going to check out today.

The updated VRM cooling did help reduce load temperatures by 10 degrees, but clearly this is not nearly enough. The standard Radeon HD 5870 cooling keeps the VRM at just 51 degrees, so going above 60 degrees here is really unacceptable. Therefore we are still not pleased with the 76 degree load temperature that the new Prolimatech MK-13 reaches.

Today we are checking out the Thermalright Spitfire VGA cooler along with the VRM-R5 heatsink designed to solve the VRM heat issues that most aftermarket cooling solutions suffer from. Designed to suit a range of graphics cards, including the mighty Radeon HD 5870, we plan to put the Spitfire to the test...

Thermalright had claimed that the Spitfire would reduce stress temperatures of the Radeon HD 5870 by 32 degrees. This is an interesting claim as it is extremely conservative based on our findings. With the 140mm fan, which operates at just 1000 RPM, we witnessed a 44 degree drop in temperature, while the much faster 1500 RPM 120mm fan allowed for a 50 degree temperature drop.

Prolimatech, the makers of the notorious Megahalems CPU cooler, are back with a new product know as “Armageddon”. This new CPU cooler is designed to accommodate a pair of 140mm fans and surprisingly despite its massive size, the Armageddon is designed to be a slim cooler...

The Prolimatech Armageddon is an interesting product for a number of reasons. For one it is said to be a “slim” heatsink and while we guess it is to a certain degree, there is nothing compact about this high-end cooler. In fact, chances are there will be very few cases where the Armageddon provides better compatibility than the cheaper and slightly better performing Megahalems.

Finally we have in our possession the latest CPU cooler from Thermalright, known as the Venomous-X. This new cooler has been designed to cool the most powerful processors available today, while Thermalright believes that the Venomous-X is ready for future 6-core processors as well. Picking up where the Ultra 120 Extreme left off, the Venomous-X is set to rewrite the record books...

Where we think Thermalright has really got things right with the Venomous-X is in the mounting design. Often quality coolers are let down by poorly designed mounting systems that do not apply enough pressure in the correct places. The Venomous-X seems to have got this right and we think the improved contact between the base of the heatsink and the processor is largely responsible for the performance gains.

Today we are checking out two new cooling products from Cooler Master, as we take a look at the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus and Hyper TX3. The revamped Hyper 212 ‘Plus’ Edition CPU cooler has caught our attention with its new universal mounting system and ultra affordable price tag. While the cut down Hyper TX3 version is even cheaper and still sports many of the same features...

Overall the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus and Hyper TX3 are superb products that offer consumers exceptional value for money. The Hyper 212 Plus in particular is very impressive, delivering performance that is comparable to the very best air-coolers while featuring one of the most innovative mounting systems we have seen. For those looking to squeeze the most out of their new Intel or AMD processor, we highly recommend the Hyper 212 Plus.

Today we are checking out a new high-end VGA cooler from Prolimatech, the makers of the popular Megahalems CPU cooler. The MK-13 is their first attempt at developing a VGA cooler and while they have not got everything right this round, it is still a very impressive product and to find out what we mean read on...

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the Prolimatech MK-13 is its fan mounting system, that allows for several configurations. This means that there will be at least a few configuration options available to you whether you are using just a single graphics card or running a multi-GPU setup. Although trying out various configurations can become time consuming, it is worth trying to work out what will work best with your setup.

ThermoLab recently announced their latest product which they call BADA, meaning the sea in Korean, of course. The BADA is a modest sized cooler that implements Heatpipe Direct Touch (HDT) technology in an effort to maximize performance in a smaller foot print, and we are going to find out how well it works...

The ThermoLab BADA is a product like many aftermarket heatsinks, in the sense that it does not really have a home. Let me explain, the BADA is designed to be a compact cooler (more compact than the BARAM) that provides users with an alternative to standard AMD and Intel coolers. However this is where it starts to fail, like many aftermarket heatsinks.

Prolimatech has just released the Mega Shadow, which is a new revision of the award winning Megahalems. The Mega Shadow features the same design as the original, with a shiny new paint job that helps to give it a more aggressive look, but does it do anything for the performance?

When we reviewed the original Prolimatech Megahalems we were hugely impressed with the performance and design. At the time the only concern we had for the Megahalems was availability, at least the lack of availability any way. Today many online stores stock the Megahalems and all the major PC cooling orientated stores have stock.

Today we review what we believe to be the best performing VGA cooler, as the new Thermaltake ISGC-V320 hits our test bed. This product is massive, spanning the length of a high-end GeForce GTX graphics card, which allows it to support a pair of 120mm fans. The huge design allows for not only low load temperatures, but also near silent operation...

When we reviewed the new Thermaltake DuOrb Extreme just a few weeks ago, the results amazed us. The original DuOrb was far from impressive, with a load temperature of 83 degrees on our overclocked GeForce 8800 GT. Incredibly the DuOrb Extreme was able to reduce the load temperature to just 45 degrees, matching our best ever recorded result with the Thermalright T-Rad².

Today we have the yet to be released Thermaltake DuOrb Extreme which is designed to cool a huge range of ATI and Nvidia graphics cards. More importantly, support for the latest graphics cards also exists, making the new DuOrb Extreme an attractive product. However it was the performance that truly impressed us...

The DuOrb Extreme is really the product the original DuOrb should have been, a highly compatible, high performance, VGA cooler that can compete with the industry’s best. It might have taken 18 months, but Thermaltake has listened to our demands. Not only does the DuOrb Extreme now support the latest ATI and Nvidia graphics cards, but it also includes the all important fan speed controller.

Today we are checking out a product many of you overclocking buffs might recognize and it has been developed by the company you are thinking of, but with a different name. The TRUE Spirit looks a lot like a number of Thermalright coolers and well, it is, but you will know it as the Cogage TRUE Spirit...

The Cogage TRUE Spirit is a pretty impressive performer for just $40 US, and we feel that there are few fan/heatsink combos that offer the same kind of value. In fact, for Intel Core i7 users there are almost no $40 US options available, so the TRUE Spirit does plug this price gap rather nicely. That said, our initial concerns as to whether a budget Core i7 cooler is needed at all still exist.

Today we are checking out another ASUS brand product, though this time it’s not a graphics card or a motherboard, it’s not even an EeePC. No, rather today we are looking at a new ASUS heatsink designed to cool the very latest processors, including the new Core i7’s...

Performance wise the ASUS Triton 81 was average, and while we did only compare it to the cream of the crop, we still felt that the temperatures achieved by this product did make it quite average. It was not so much the fact that the Triton 81 was almost 20% hotter under load than the Megahalems and TRUE Copper heatsinks, it was more to do with how much louder it was.

Today we are checking out another high-end CPU cooler, this time from a company called Prolimatech. They claim that their new Megahalems heatsink is able to outperform the industry’s best products, such as the Thermalright TRUE Copper, so we decided to find out if it can...

It is like some new alloy has been discovered in the past 6 months. For what almost seemed like forever the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme dominated our charts, delivering the best cooling performance of any cooler we had seen. While there were quite a few air coolers released around the same time that offered a similar level of performance, none really surpassed it. Then along came the Cooler Master V8 late last year, which really shook things up.

Today we are checking out a new and fairly unusual product from Thermaltake called the MeOrb, and while it may not look all that unusual at first, keep in mind that this new cooler measures just 47mm tall. Typically to be a proper desktop heatsink it would need to be, as Zoolander would say, at least 2 to 3 times bigger than that...

Those looking to build a small HTPC or even a mini-ITX computer that has a fair bit of guts for taking on more demanding tasks, are going to face the issue of keeping it not only cool but also quiet. The Thermaltake MeOrb has proven to be good at both cooling powerful processors and doing so while making very little noise. More importantly, it does all this while measuring just 47mm tall.

Recently Scythe released their first ever VGA cooler designed to replace reference coolers found on many ATI and Nvidia graphics cards. By developing what Scythe call the Musashi, they have created one of the biggest VGA coolers to date, featuring dual 100mm fans...

Performance wise the Scythe Musashi was excellent, as it was able to massively decrease the load temperatures of the GeForce 8800 GT, while also competing very well with other high-end VGA coolers. The Musashi appears to be on par with the Thermalright HR-03 which was the benchmark for VGA coolers for quite some time. This meant that the Musashi was able to beat the Arctic-Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo and Thermaltake DuOrb coolers for example.

Today we are checking out another new CPU cooler designed for enthusiasts, though this one is a little different. The Scythe Kama Angle is designed to deliver impressive results while generating almost no noise, thanks to a low-speed fan...

The Scythe Kama Angle is not a particularly exciting looking product, especially when compared to some of the newer Thermaltake and Cooler Master products for example. However it is both practical and functional, and that probably counts for a lot more. Although the design is not all that flashy, it does seem to work very well, allowing a relatively low speed fan to deliver tremendous results.

Today we are checking out another high-end CPU cooler, this time from a company called ThermoLab. They claim that their new Baram heatsink is able to outperform the industry’s best products such as the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, so we decided to find out if it can...

When ThermoLab first e-mailed us telling of how their new Baram cooler was better than existing high-end products, it is fair to say that we were very skeptical about this. After all, it would not have been the first time a new company had surfaced making similar claims, only to have the reference cooler shame them. However this was not the case with the Baram, as it is a genuinely good performer based on our findings.

Today we are looking at yet another Thermaltake product that is designed to cool the latest AMD and Intel processors. Based on the original V1 design, the new v14Pro features a massive 14cm fan and a fan speed controller that allows users to determine their own acceptable operating volume...

Thermaltake has not just made the V14Pro revision of the original V1 bigger. They have also made it better, giving users the option to adjust the speed of that huge 14cm fan. Still, having the option to mount the fan controller externally would have been better, as the internal controller pretty much just lets users find a setting that they like and once the door is on it is to remain there.

Today we are checking out the most insane air-cooled CPU cooler ever created, the Thermalright TRUE Copper. This incredible heatsink weighs more and costs more than anything we have seen before. Thankfully it performs pretty bloody well, which should peak the interests of more than a few overclockers...

The new Thermalright TRUE Copper truly is the most impractical and most ridiculous heatsink we have ever reviewed here at Legion Hardware. However despite this, it really is one of our all time favorites, and we do not expect anything to top this effort any time soon. While the $100 US price tag is not ideal for an air-cooled solution, we really do not have a problem with it given the 100% copper design.