It is compatible with both Intel and AMD processing units

May 29, 2014 12:48 GMT  ·  By

The Kodati may be Scythe's small form factor, low profile as it were, cooler for central processing and accelerated processing units, but it's not the only cooler that the Japanese company has revealed.

Indeed, the company has also revealed a particularly large and bulky cooler by the name of Mugen Max. And by large, we mean a cooler that measures 145 x 110 x 161 mm / 5.70 x 4.33 x 6.33 inches and weighs 870 grams / 1.91 pounds.

Compared to other coolers on the market, the Scythe Mugen Max looks pretty ordinary really, and a lot less “meaty.”

Not only does it lack the complex fin arrangement of other tower coolers, but its aluminum fin stack also has a lower, shall we say, mass than competitors.

It's actually a bit surprising that the product weighs what it weighs, given how “airy” the fin array is. Although we suppose those heatpipes have to weigh something.

Speaking of which, there are six 6 mm nickel-plated copper heatpipes leading heat from the base plate to the main body.

The base plate is made of the same nickel-copper combination material in case you were wondering. There's no red or orange in sight.

In fact, the only hint of color on the entire Scythe Mugen Max cooler is the faint shade of blue that the Scythe Falcon mouse possesses.

It's actually a black spinner of 140 mm diameter and PWM control scheme (pulse-width modulation), with a rotary speed of 500 to 1,300 RPM (rotations per minute).

It sounds slow, and it kind of is, but larger fans are always slower than small ones, because there's more blade area to push air.

Speaking of which, the airflow ranges from 37.37 to 97.18 CFM and the noise output is of 13 to 30.70 dBA. You should even be able to install a second Falcon 140 fan on the other side of the tower if you so wish.

The Scythe Mugen Max cooler, bearing the part number SCMGD-1000, is compatible with Intel LGA2011, LGA115x and LGA1366 central processing units (CPUs for short), as well as AM3, AM3+, FM2 and FM2+ CPUs and APUs (accelerated processing units) from Advanced Micro Devices. Sales ought to begin around the middle of June 2014.

Unfortunately, Scythe didn't provide a price for the product, just like it didn't have one to share about the aforementioned Kodati low profile cooler that it launched alongside this one.

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