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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...
Prolimatech has been on a roll ever since they came into existence just 2 years ago. Their first product, the Megahalems, was an instant hit in the enthusiast crowd, as it provided some of the best results of any air-cooled heatsink. Their next product was less exciting as it was more of a revision than an entirely new product.
 The Mega Shadow was a shadow chrome version of the Megahalems that provided no performance gains while fetching quite a high price premium. The Mega Shadow was merely a show piece for diehard fans and while it did look the part, we failed to get excited about it. Then finally, mid way through 2009 the next Prolimatech product was launched. This new product was a VGA cooler named “MK-13”, which seemed a bit drab when compared to the names they came up with for their CPU coolers. The MK-13 was a serious VGA cooler and worked wonders with GPU temperatures of the Radeon HD 5870. However while the GPU cooling performance was phenomenal, the cooler was still unfortunately a step back when compared to the AMD reference cooler, due to its inadequate VRM cooling. That being the case, we concluded with the statements that the Prolimatech MK-13 demonstrated a great deal of potential and while we feel that this is likely one of the best after market VGA coolers out there, it still has one serious flaw and that is VRM cooling. Since then Prolimatech has done nothing to improve the VRM cooling of the MK-13 or to develop a special Radeon HD 5870 version. Rather, it appears they have been working on another product instead, a product now known as Armageddon. Prolimatech are going back to their bread and butter this time round, as the Armageddon is a high-end CPU air-cooler. The Armageddon is designed to be a slim line, dare I say it, “compact” version of the Megahalems and Mega Shadow products. Still, I do feel a little silly using the words slim or compact when talking about the Armageddon, as it really is anything but. This massive heatsink is designed to accommodate a pair of 140mm fans, so do not expect to be installing it in too many compact MicroATX cases. |
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ProX |
Posted on: 03/30/2010 12:21 PM
Nice in-depth review and you are probably right the Megahalems is a better buy for most. |
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Razor |
Posted on: 03/30/2010 12:30 PM
Thats an awesome looking setup and I do like the idea of quiet 14cm fans. |
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djnox |
Posted on: 03/30/2010 12:43 PM
Boo!!! I would buy one of these Prolimatech coolers but screw paying $10 or so more just so I can use it on my Phenom II X4 system  Where is the AMD version? |
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rick |
Posted on: 03/31/2010 02:26 AM
looks very cool. I wouldnt mind picking one of these up. when do they go on sale? |
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Dubs |
Posted on: 04/01/2010 08:32 PM
very nice I really like this product and have been keeping my eye out for reviews. loved the photos thanks keep up the goood work!!! |
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Jeff Posts: 1 Joined: 2010-04-03 |
Posted on: 04/04/2010 01:59 AM
Great article...as usual. Interesting to see it beat the Megahalems with a single fan. |
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ProX |
Posted on: 04/04/2010 11:24 AM
That was only at idle Jeff which I dont think is that important since the CPU is not really throwing any heat out. Those temps are just above room temp so its the load results that are important and with a single fan it was not great there, though it was a low speed fan. |
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Mescalamba |
Posted on: 04/04/2010 04:25 PM
Obviously it needs lot of air pressure and CFM to achieve nice results. It can be very interesting with 2000 RPM 140mm fans.. |
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sniper444 |
Posted on: 04/04/2010 10:22 PM
Umm it did achieve nice results and christ have you heard what a 2000 RPM fan sounds like? let alone a 140mm one!! Anyway nice review thanks. |
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Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 04/04/2010 10:44 PM
Posted by Mescalamba on 04/04/2010 05:25 PM
Prolimatech were very picky about which fans we used and supplied us with the Xigmatek XLF-F1453 for testing as noted in the review. Thanks for all the feedback so far guys. |
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Protazz |
Posted on: 04/08/2010 10:15 PM
Thanks for the review I am going to try and pick one of these up and fit it with 1500 RPM fans. |