14 DAY TRIAL // CPU coolers started out as a necessity, like all coolers really, but soon enough, they became something of a commodity too, in the sense that their makers, and their buyers for that matter, were no longer satisfied with them being simply ”good enough for the job.” Scythe's latest model acts as testament to that.
Said new cooler is called Kotetsu and is the sort of product that is deceptively light. Its bulky frame suggests more than 480 grams / 1.05 pounds, but that's the real weight.
Given the exact physical size of 130 x 58 x 160 mm / 5.11 x 2.28 x 6.29 inches, we can understand some of how that is possible.
Still, we covered heavier ones in the past, coolers that were just as capable of fitting inside systems based on mini-ATX and micro-ATX cases but weighed more than this, even 1 kilogram or more (2.20 pounds).
Nonetheless, despite the all-copper base plate, four copper heatpipes (of 6 mm each), 120 mm fan, and aluminum heatsink, those are its weight and size.
The fan isn't normal though. Scythe chose one that can produce as little as 5.3 dBA of noise, and even its maximum is a low 28 dBA, which is less than a whisper.
Of course, in a quiet room, whispers are pretty hard to miss, but people usually have a nice headset on their ears anyway, when playing a game or two.
And games are, after all, the only things that can really push a good PC these days, not counting benchmarks.
That said, the fan can move 63.49 to 165.10 cubic meters of air per hour, or 20.7 to 76.0 cubic feet per minute.
And if you add a second fan, on the other side, forming a push-pull combo, you can drive that airflow even higher.
Finally, the "Hyper Precision Mounting System" allows the Scythe Kotetsu to easily install on AMD or Intel CPUs. All for the price of €28,00 / $38.