14 DAY TRIAL // Entry-level coolers may be slower and less fancy-looking than their mid-range and high-end siblings, but that doesn't mean they have to be drab and simple. Scythe showed this with the Tatsumi 1000B.
Despite being a low-end cooling module, it still has three 6 mm copper heatpipes, a nickel-plated copper base, and a PWM-controlled fan cooling the aluminum fin stack.
Entry-level coolers often lack heatpipes altogether, and they could even have heatsinks that make direct contact with the chip instead of using copper (more conductive of heat) for that.
Anyway, the Tatsumi's fan can move 55.55 CFM of air (minimum is 6.7 CFM) and has a noise output of 7.2 to 31.07 dBA.
All in all, the thing measures 102 mm x 83 mm x 146 mm / 4.01 x 3.26 x 5.74 inches and weighs 450 grams / 1 pound.
Sales of Scythe Tatsumi will begin in May, but a price hasn't been provided. You can consider buying it if you own a system powered by an AMD AM3(+) or FM2(+) CPU/APU, or an Intel LGA2011, LGA115x, or LGA1366 CPU.
Since Scythe is a Japanese company, availability could be restricted to the land of the rising sun for a while. Feel free to hope otherwise though.
