14 DAY TRIAL // We've seen lots of dual-fan or multi-fan coolers, and we've also seen lots of them that have more than one heatsink, and some that have both, but that still leaves room for creativity, as Xigmatek has only just revealed.
Basically, as people who dropped by Taipei, Taiwan, might have already found out, Xigmatek has created the Orthrus CPU cooler.
To put it simply, this is one of the strangest coolers on show at Computex 2013, and one of the oddest to ever be released really.
The copper base is the only conventional thing about it. Xigmatek might have used direct-touch heatpipes instead, if there hadn’t been the need to do something different with those.
And by different, we mean that there are seven of them, divided into two groups. The central ones aim high, going into a large aluminum fin stack, while the two on the edges lead to a small fin stack.
Said smaller fin stack is located beneath the large one, and uses an 80 mm PWM fan for heat dissipation, with a rotary speed of 2,000 RPM.
The other one, measuring 140 mm in diameter, is also 25 mm thick and has a rotary speed of 800 to 1,600 RPM (rotations per minute).
The air pushed by the top large fan assists the smaller one as well, though we suspect the benefits of blowing air onto the motherboard components in the CPU socket's vicinity is more of a boon.
All in all, the Xigmatec Orthrus, part number SD1467, measures 146 x 200 x 165 mm (WxDxH), which corresponds to 5.74 x 7.87 x 6.49 inches.
The company reportedly said that all modern CPU sockets were supported, which we suppose means Intel LGA 115x and LGA1366, maybe LGA2011 too, along with AMD FM1/FM2, etc.
Buyers should keep in mind that the beast weighs a lot, at 875 grams / 1.92 pounds. It is rather impressive that motherboards, together with the cooler mounting mechanism, can actually hold these rocks in place, especially when the mainboard sits vertically in a case, which is most common.