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03-10-2008, 03:40 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls   Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Scythe brings Massive Passive Cooling passively a component that generates between 20 and 100 W is a real challenge, but users' enthusiasm for silent PC  is still strong. They Scythe decided to go one step further and display its Giant Ninja, the biggest prototype of heat sink for processor we have ever seen. We'll let you be the judge.CeBIT 2008: Scythe brings Massive Passive | Tom's Hardware
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03-10-2008, 03:41 PM
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| Grab Life By The Balls Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan
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| Re: Scythe brings Massive Passive Look at the size of that heatsink. To me thats just way to big for any pc.
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03-10-2008, 03:52 PM
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| both the length and width of that is just enormous...the Thermalright Ultra is pretty long but it doesn't seem to have the width like this has
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03-10-2008, 03:56 PM
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| Re: Scythe brings Massive Passive You wouldnt think the motherboard could handle the weight of it.
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03-10-2008, 03:59 PM
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| with a back plate I'm sure it will be fine
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03-10-2008, 05:43 PM
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| Re: Scythe brings Massive Passive I wouldn't trust it, unless it was bolted to the motherboard backplate! That HS is just CRAZY. |
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03-10-2008, 05:57 PM
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| Re: Scythe brings Massive Passive Looks like it's lots of heatpipes and aluminium fins. I have a feeling it won't weigh much more than the heavier copper coolers. Can't wait for Scythe to send SPCR one...
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