In Figure 7 we see the base of the cooler, where the heatpipes touch directly the CPU. And interesting detail is that there are three 8-mm heatpipes (center and border ones) while both the remaining are 6-mm. The base is smooth but has no mirror-look finishing.
Figure 7: Base.
In order to remove the fan you just need to remove four screws at the top of the cooler and pull it up. In Figure 8 we can see the cooler without the fan.
Figure 8: Cooler without the fan.
In Figure 9 we can see the fan, attached to a piece that holds it inside the cooler. This fan is transparent and comes with four blue LEDs. Note the three-pin miniature connector, which means is has no PWM automatic speed control. This, however, is not a problem, since Tower 120 Extreme comes with a fan controller to be installed in a expansion slot on the rear side of the case. In Figure 10 we see this controller, as well as the gray thermal compound tube that comes with the cooler.
HX620W is a very famous power supply from Corsair and 18 months after we posted our original article on it we decided to re-evaluate this unit to include minor changes Corsair made to it and also to include our load tests.
Our review of ASUS M2N32-SLI De Luxe, the most high-end socket AM2 motherboard from ASUS based on NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI chipset, which supports SLI technology, targeted to the new Athlon 64 CPUs supporting DDR2 memory.
Let’s check out the latest mid-tower case from Enermax, the Hoplite (a.k.a. ECA3320), which comes with an external SSD/hard drive dock and two external hot-swap bays.