News - Angled Nexus VCT-9000 CPU cooler touts quiet performance, loud looks

[HEXUS]

This type of performance has never been this quiet before, says Dutch manufacturer.

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[Flewis]

Having the angled fan seems sensible as the air is blown directly onto the fins as opposed to past them. Don't know whether that would correlate to real world performance or not. You would imagine it could be noisier than a perpendicular fan tho. Look forward to a hexus review

Agreed it does look pretty cool.

[davidcrofter]

Nice to see some new CPU Heatsink that concentrate on noise without *seemingly* sacrificing performance ... should be good if they can get the balance right.

[0iD]

Not a particularly new idea, as Scythe & Gigabyte (to name but two) have tried this angled look before. The price is at the right point, however I will reserve judgment on real-world performance till it makes it into the HEXUS test dungeon.

...and lose the crappy flame effect on the sides, it's rubbish, I mean flames...on a cooler....

[Whiternoise]

Interesting that the article mentions that raising the bar is difficult to do now. That is certainly the case in terms of absolute temperature gain, as fans are basically a passive solution you can't cool below ambient anyway. As a result we've got as close as we're reasonably going to get with fans I think (given size constraints).

What the push should now be towards is developing better materials and shrinking down the form factor. If they could cram the same sorts of performance into a cooler that was two thirds the size, that would raise the bar quite a lot.

Until we've cracked liquid metal based cooling or someone develops a decent consumer oriented active cooler then the market will stagnate i fear, especially with new chips pushing for lower and lower power dissipations. Peltiers and watercooling are nice solutions for active cooling, but they're either expensive, bulky or impractical for most users.

And also, besides the noise, there is little wrong with the stock coolers these days. The amount of money and size you need to expend to do significantly better in terms of temperature is quite a lot.

[giskard]

As the owner of an Antec P193 case which won't accomodate anything taller than a 145mm heatsink cooler, I'm looking forward to seeing a review of the VCT 9000 to see if it performs as well as the current cream of the crop, namely TRUE, Fenrir and Mugen air coolers, all of which are too tall for my unmodded case.