UtterDisbelief
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Hmmm.
I think it depends on what the i9-9900K was doing for all those hours.
My initial reaction to this design was - Wa-hey! Noctua! That has got to be some quality kit !!
Then the more I looked at it the more I wondered why so few fins. Surface area is key, not just thickness. Surely two 0.75mm fins should dissipate more heat than one 1.5mm fin. Perhaps a metallurgist could chime in and tell me I'm wrong there. Six heat-pipes is nothing new. Maybe the metal is some new exotic alloy? Somehow I doubt it.
Plus, this might, just might work in the open where cool air is in abundance, but in a PC case ... ? In the installed photo, it looks as though the heatsink is mounted above a GPU cooler. This must be generating rising heat of its own.
So sadly I don't think I could trust such an insubstantial design to passively cool a hard-working top-of-the-line processor. Even by the best company in the business...
Besides, the description states the cooler is ideal for semi-passive set-ups. Either a fan mounted on the cooler or in the case.
So I agree @tabarus, progress indeed, but we are not there yet.
I think it depends on what the i9-9900K was doing for all those hours.
My initial reaction to this design was - Wa-hey! Noctua! That has got to be some quality kit !!
Then the more I looked at it the more I wondered why so few fins. Surface area is key, not just thickness. Surely two 0.75mm fins should dissipate more heat than one 1.5mm fin. Perhaps a metallurgist could chime in and tell me I'm wrong there. Six heat-pipes is nothing new. Maybe the metal is some new exotic alloy? Somehow I doubt it.
Plus, this might, just might work in the open where cool air is in abundance, but in a PC case ... ? In the installed photo, it looks as though the heatsink is mounted above a GPU cooler. This must be generating rising heat of its own.
So sadly I don't think I could trust such an insubstantial design to passively cool a hard-working top-of-the-line processor. Even by the best company in the business...
Besides, the description states the cooler is ideal for semi-passive set-ups. Either a fan mounted on the cooler or in the case.
So I agree @tabarus, progress indeed, but we are not there yet.
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