2 new heatsinks from Scythe

cansan · Post by **cansan** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:19 am

The first one is like a NCU-2000 with more fins: THE SHOGUN

There was a thread recently about tower vs. conventional heatsinks, and some of us thought that better tower heatsinks would emerge eventually. Here we go! Anyone care to test this against the XP-120? I can't wait for a review!!! I think the king may finally be dethroned...

The second one is a new passive cooler: THE NINJA

This one looks to have 6 long or 12 short heatpipes, I can't tell. I am curious as to whether it will be better than the NCU-2000 for purely passive cooling. We'll see...

cansan · Post by **cansan** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:13 pm

nobody interested? I apologize if this is a repost or something?

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:01 pm

I think the problem is market penetration. Not everything Scythe sells in Japan becomes availlable in North America and Europe. So we'll have to see if these surface somewhere where we can buy them.

But they do look interesting.

mrzed · Post by **mrzed** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:04 pm

I'm suspicious of the fin spacing on the Shogun there. Looks too dense to work well with extremely low airflow fans.

I'd be happy to be wrong though, and hope that we'll see a review here eventually.

pangit · Post by **pangit** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:49 pm

Yeah, I think the Ninja looks better for that. 6 heatpipes, wow! Don't know if they are better than the heatlane on the Shogun though.

It could be a winner!

daba · Post by **daba** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:38 pm

My roommate does reviews for a site and he is getting the ShoGun to review.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

pangit · Post by **pangit** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:48 pm

See if you can persuade him to do a few silent-centric or low airflow tests!

mco_chris · Post by **mco_chris** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:29 pm

I wonder if the Ninja would fit on the Aopen Pentium M board? Looks like the base is fairly small.

Webfire · Post by **Webfire** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:54 am

Here is a german review of the Ninja and the Shogun.
http://www.dirkvader.de/frame.php?site= ... he_Towers/
The Ninja looks very promising, too bad I don't have a socket 939 mainboard.

It looks like dirkvader changed his testing platform so there are no comparisons to other coolers except the NCU 2005.