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The Heatsink:

The entire heatsink looks a bit bulky but that’s not the only thing. The heatsink looks a bit rough for some reason, It’s a good thing Scythe took great care of the bottom which is made out of copper, but the spirals look rough and most of them are bend in a way so the bracket fits the heatsink.

Performance:

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We could only test the cooler on a P4 based system because we do not have an AMD system for testing, yes I know shame on us, but we don’t have a money tree’s outside our houses. We used a Coolermaster Aerogate 2 with a temperature sensor. For the idle test we used our computer for several hours, then kept it idling at the background, as for the Stress test, we used a program called CPU Burn in Test, this only maximizes your CPU for 50% because the p4 has hyperthreading on, so we ran the 3dmark03 benchmark.

• Intel Pentium 4 2.8C Malay week 27
• Abit IC7
• We used no case for this review

Max Rpm = 3540rpm

Min Rpm = 1530rpm

Scythe Kamakaze Cooler idle “1530rpm”
36.5c
Scythe Kamakaze Cooler Stressed ” 1530rpm”
46.0c
Scythe Kamakaze Cooler idle “3540rpm”
30.0c
Scythe Kamakaze Cooler Stressed ” 3540rpm”
40.5c

It seems we’ve got ourselves a winner here, it might not be “the” cooler for modders with windows in their computers because the Kamakaze cooler definitely hasn’t won the beauty contest, but that doesn’t matter because the temperatures are right, and the overall performance of this cooler is above standard. The installation on an AMD processor should be done with extra care because of the flimsy core but that’s about it.

Final Verdict

• Performance is quite good
• Silent
• Fan controller included
• Installation is difficult