A couple of years ago, everyone believed that aircooling would come to an end. There were even rumors about Intel planning to ship processors with a watercooling kit. Processors were just getting ridiculously hot to the point that quiet aircooling seemed to be an impossible feat. Thermalright stepped in with copper heatsinks that utilized heatpipes and showed that aircooling has yet to see its last days. Many companies followed suit with heatpipe heatsinks, whether it would be a traditional heatsink or a standing tower. Thermalright certainly did not stop there. They improved their heatpipe heatsinks when the XP-120 was released. The XP-120 was a huge success and even rivaled many simple watercooling setups. Unfortunately, it faced many compatibility issues with motherboards and many enthusiasts were turned off. They fixed that problem by shrinking the size of the XP-120 to the size of the XP-90, but enthusiasts were left using 90mm fans instead of the much bigger 120mm fans. Thermalright also listened to the inputs by many enthusiasts and released an all copper version of the XP-90, dubbed XP-90C. The performance was better, but not by much. Either way, Thermalright continues to stretch out the existence of aircooling for toasty CPU's.
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Sep 13, 2005, 01:39 AM
. Wonder how long it will take for them to take down ArtiCooling 
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