Computex is starting to ramp up! Tons of coverage coming up. Check out our video about Antec's new cases over here (they're back!): th-cam.com/video/Akvu93m3dnA/w-d-xo.html Check out our coldplate engineering video ft. Scythe here: th-cam.com/video/7BMYsMGpyFY/w-d-xo.html
Re: Your nickname, let me just mention the web novel "A Beginner's Guide to Napping, Sunbathing, and Slaughtering Your Prey". You may, possibly, identify with the protagonist...
Magoroku Seki's most famous Japanese swordmaker, began his traditional crafting method blending four types of steel into a composite blade here during the Sengoku or 'Age of Warring States' (1460s-1560s) period.
@@arthurmoore9488 I've seen some of those BigClive vids. I just used the example that was famous because a bunch of unsympathetic First World dummies got fried at once.
Love Scythe! Hands down my favorite tower cooler mfg. Really glad to see them improving and innovating! Thanks for bringing us this vid, Steve and GN crew 💯
The large, dual-tower air cooling segment is very competitive right now with a lot of good options. So I don't think you really need to wait unless Thermalright, Be Quiet!, Deepcool, Scythe, etc. don't have an option you like for aesthetics or some other specific reason.
Scythe fans were some of my first aftermarket fans when I started to build PCs. I am glad to see they are still rocking innovation. They were quiet, effective and relatively cheap.
If they can offer similar or better performance compared to Noctua coolers, at a competitive price, then more power to Scythe! Seeing the air-cooler market boom like this over the last 3 years has been real exciting. I'm especially curious about the low-profile coolers showcased here, would be interesting to see how far they can push the envelope between size, performance, and price with these.
@@Chopper153 Noctua makes solid coolers, but they are indeed overpriced. Noctua's biggest advantage is its long-term support for different platforms with its existing coolers (free upgrade kits in my experience), but Arctic has also started doing the same, so I'm happy that competition's ramped up from different manufacturers at better prices. My main point is that any competition against Noctua is great, and by extension that makes Scythe a competitor against Arctic, Thermalright, and Deepcool in the air-cooling market if the price is competitive enough. No fanboyism here, my man.
The air cooler market is the most exciting thing in the DIY PC space at this point. Noctua's commitment to taking their time is getting harder and harder.
matching (or beating) Noctua's performance doesn't really seem like much an issue (other companies already have done it), I just want a competitor to their support.
Depends! That's definitely true on the NH-D15. Seems like that cooler is beaten in many scenarios. The Noctua ultra low profile coolers have been tough for competitors to beat though, so the Shuriken 3 apparently tries to do that. We might do a round-up of SFF coolers to test it.
Good support costs money. With Scythe trying to compete on price, they won't be able to offer the kind of long-term support and other stuff like free mounting kits for new sockets, like Noctua does.
Be Quiet! and Arctic are pretty good from my experience and anecdotal reports, although Noctua probably still the best at providing things like compatibility pages.
Noctua still best overall - but you pay for that. My NF-A14s going strong over 5 years now. NHD15S chromax ran perfectly for 3 years, I ended up going to AIO when I upgraded.
So glad to see you covering this Brand. I just saw them when I was fixing to do a Custom Build, and I was definitely impressed with the spec and prices alone off their Kaze II Case/AiO Fans...definitely watch out Noctua!
Scythe is doing great work the last years. I absolutely love my Fuma and they keep making it better. As a NR200 owner I am seriously thinking about switching to a white Fuma 3 Rev B.
Yay for the Big Shuriken 4! I hope I can get my hands on one, whenever it comes out. I haven't been able to find the Big Shuriken 3 *anywhere* for like two years.
I don't own any Scythe products, but I'm really impressed with their attempts of innovation and iteration. It's awesome that they're so open to listening to the public and sharing their findings too! It's a company that I respect, it's not often you see transparency like this :)
Big fan of Scythe, got a Scythe Katana 2 back in high school based on aesthetic and it seeming solid, loved that fan and glad to see them being competitive and not just cool names. Got my current computer full of Grand Tornados with a Noctua CPU cooler.
Oh man this is exciting, I've been using the Fuma 3 on my 13700K (undervolted) and it's been good from what I can tell, but I was really wanting a blackout version and was confused what happened to it after watching your video from last year. Good to see it's still in the plans
@@LemonRush7777 With cinebench it hit 102C lol, got it down 10 degrees while also improving performance from 28K points to 30K and max wattage from like 270 to 215
Hey Steve, thank you a lot for also doing coverage on cases and fans/coolers besides the typical PC hardware parts. Back in the 2000s, cases and coolers were fairly commonly reviewed in written media, but after websites were nearly fully replaced by TH-cam in the last decade, very few channels review those parts because they don't bring as many views like CPUs and GPUs reviews.
I appreciate the company working directly with an impartial tester. Being willing to spend resources this way is an excellent sign of care and quality.
Great coverage as always, I should ask my sister in law about the name tomorrow. She's Japanese and might know, at least she can translate...lol. I think it was the premiere chef blade for kitchens though...
5:45 As a corollary. The maximum possible energy extraction efficiency for a wind turbine is about 59%. That's because the wind going into the turbine has to also push the air behind the turbine to flow through it. So yeah, your back pressure intuition is spot on. Even though some of the volumetric airflow of the fan will escape the fin stack now, the cooling performance should increase because the fan can use more of its energy to push air through the stack rather than being stalled by backflow.
Magoroku Kanemoto (孫六兼元), also known as Magoroku of Seki (関孫六), is a famous 15-16th century swordsmith from Mugi-gun, Minonokuni (present day Seki, Gifu prefecture). Legend has it that many historical warlords carried Magoroku swords and they were highly disired. His name appears frequently in Japanese samurai novels and period works.
Straighter heatpipes for higher performance makes sense, the more curves the more resistance the capilary flow back to the hot end has to overcome. I suspect there will be some "critical radius" where the effect transists from low influence too high, as a function of radius. Which in turns would depend on the heatpipe diameter and type of wick. It would indeed be very nice to see some measurements in your well-controlled test environment!
I wish more companies allowed you to tour their behind the scenes prototype stuff. It's a really interesting side that most people never see or even know it exists.
the one they manually notched is so cool to see. I love seeing companies that dev in this way rather than spending weeks tweaking models in cfd and getting nowhere.
I love how they think about sff when designing their tower coolers. There are so many that don't fit because of a couple centimeters but their's do. I'm using one on my nr200p and it fits perfectly
I've really liked Scythe videos, I'm going Big Air my next build and the fact they seem to be really cool people and they design some interesting coolers
Really loving the competition and development in air cooler technology and price performance. While most other hardware sectors just throw bigger stuff and more money at problems, it's a breath of fresh air (pun perhaps intended?) to see air coolers going the opposite route. Love your journalistic insight, Steve. Taking honest work to the extreme
Thermalright SI-128 had a centre pressure screw. Going back to LGA 775 socket, I just remember being able to overclock better on a Q9550, stable 3.4GHz 24/7/365. I personally, like the way the some manufacturers are still developing down draft coolers. Would like to see, some bigger versions come back though.
Thank you GN for having such fantastic industry relationships. Y'all have to be cool cats to get the interviews and privileged viewing. I should buy another merch.
I love seeing how the prototypes look like something I would do (you see? What you're looking at in my case isn't a hack job, it's actually precision engineering) I think I'm all about liquid cooling right now, but if I ever decide to do a SFF build, or build for someone else, I know what to look for.
I think once you get the new downdraft coolers, you should also test to see if the cutouts also improve VRM temps even more vs standard fans, as some of that thrown out air would still be blasted in a wide, downward angle. Also, please consider testing the reverse; with fans sucking up through the cooler and out the top.
Honestly I forgot Scythe was still existing. I had a aftermarket GPU cooler for I think my GTX 260 back in the day, but thats about it. But its always good too see competition and innovation in a space.
Heck yeah, Scythe! Did ANYONE ever came up with better radiator fans than the Gentle Typhoons like... ever? I'm rocking 8 of those in rig, don't remember ever even stopping to consider getting anything else when I was putting it together. Zero regrets
Good to know that Scythe is working on a Fuma 3 revision, I believe it may explains why the normal version of it basically disappeared from online stores in my country.
Respect to Scythe for their commitment to working with gamers nexus. It really means a lot to see a company who is willing to go above and beyond what is required or necessary.
quick google search I was able to find that Magaroku was a master samurai swordsmith from the city of Seki in the middle of the Muromachi period (around 1336-1573).
Scythe is no joke, I used one of their coolers on my first video card. It was a single slot 8000something from the early nvidia days. It was screaming loud, the factory fan ran at 100% all the time. Scythe gave me my sanity back 😆
its great when companies are this open about what they are doing it gives me more faith in the company than trying to hide then just expect people to believe what they are saying when they release something new other companies should take note
I think we've already hit a wall with tower coolers with regards to high-end CPU cooling. They might need to do some drastic structural changes to accommodate the thermal headroom required by such CPUs. Perhaps kind of like the Jiushark or the Thermosyphon Ice Giant approach. Maybe crazy designs like triple-stacked towers (most big tower coolers have two), or 2+2 quad-stack with fans pointing up, or angled towers with wider fin-stacks. Heck, at this point I think it might even be worth it to try a cube single tower with three fans (2 sides, 1 on top or bottom).
Computex is starting to ramp up! Tons of coverage coming up. Check out our video about Antec's new cases over here (they're back!): th-cam.com/video/Akvu93m3dnA/w-d-xo.html
Check out our coldplate engineering video ft. Scythe here: th-cam.com/video/7BMYsMGpyFY/w-d-xo.html
The first hyperlink takes you back to this video.
Nice
Please cover Zotac, I'd love to see that new Zotac Zone handheld - it has an OLED screen.
Nexus, you will go to COMPUTEX 2024 in Taiwan?
Seki Magoroku goes back to a famous Japanese swordsmith from the city of Seki in the middle of the Muromachi period (around 1336-1573).
Find someone who loves you the way Steve loves fans.
LOL if he didn't already have a pinned message...
Both computer fans and his channel's fans
Re: Your nickname, let me just mention the web novel "A Beginner's Guide to Napping, Sunbathing, and Slaughtering Your Prey". You may, possibly, identify with the protagonist...
@@c99kfm LOL
Magoroku
Seki's most famous Japanese swordmaker, began his traditional crafting method blending four types of steel into a composite blade here during the Sengoku or 'Age of Warring States' (1460s-1560s) period.
I have a Seki Magoroku blade, by which I mean nail clippers. They are effective.
@@javadkhusroThat's hilarious naming.
Seki Magoroku goes back to a famous Japanese swordsmith from the city of Seki in the middle of the Muromachi period (around 1336-1573).
its also a brand of fancy Japanese kitchen knives.
Oh sweet that was a bit more than I was able to find.
3:53 That's so satisfying
It's unbelievable how perfect of a fit it is!
I love my NR200, but my Hyper 212 EVO just barely fits... I'd love to fit that FUMA in there when I upgrade my CPU.
@@tojirohfuma 2 is just about the perfect fit. Don’t know the dimensions of the 3, but I reckon it’s still a fit
for real. like i want to do a small PC for those perfect fits.
I'm always hyped for GN's annual Computex coverage
the fan prototypes look like they'd glow in the dark
Bring back UV light rigs
@@claudiobizama5603 I'm sure there are some leftover UV disinfectant lamps you could get, like the ones that burned some retinas at that crypto party.
Too bad you couldn't see it with every component having RGB lights
@@concinnus Hey, it's happened far more often than that. For a while there, BigClive was making a video seemingly every couple of months about it.
@@arthurmoore9488 I've seen some of those BigClive vids. I just used the example that was famous because a bunch of unsympathetic First World dummies got fried at once.
Love Scythe! Hands down my favorite tower cooler mfg. Really glad to see them improving and innovating! Thanks for bringing us this vid, Steve and GN crew 💯
Speaking about noctua, man i'm tired waiting over a decade for their next gen d15
Hopefully they have some news to share with us this year. We should find out in a few days!
Looks like we have to wait another 10 years for the chromax version :(
The large, dual-tower air cooling segment is very competitive right now with a lot of good options. So I don't think you really need to wait unless Thermalright, Be Quiet!, Deepcool, Scythe, etc. don't have an option you like for aesthetics or some other specific reason.
Because they aren’t gonna be as amazing as they hoped they would be. Nocuta isn’t best of best anymore its hust another apple
@SilverJoystix almost no reason to get one when the peerless assassin exists
I have Scythe fans from 15 years ago, that still work like they came out of the box.
I opened one of my old ones last year that I bought back in 2008, and it worked flawlessly. Only downside was that it isn't a pwm fan.
I have some Gentle Typhoons and yeah, they still work
@@TigonIII All of my old Scythe fans are 3pin DC. That being said, I've never had a problem setting a DC fan curve.
Sounds ex-scythe-ing.
.... OK, fine, you can have the heart.
The doors that way.
It's pretty... _cool_
How does it feel to be a genius?
I'm fuma-ing that you thought of that first.
Scythe fans were some of my first aftermarket fans when I started to build PCs. I am glad to see they are still rocking innovation. They were quiet, effective and relatively cheap.
If they can offer similar or better performance compared to Noctua coolers, at a competitive price, then more power to Scythe!
Seeing the air-cooler market boom like this over the last 3 years has been real exciting.
I'm especially curious about the low-profile coolers showcased here, would be interesting to see how far they can push the envelope between size, performance, and price with these.
Scythe is fighting against Thermalright and Deepcool, not Noctua. Noctua is like Apple, only fanboys buy their products.
@@Chopper153 Noctua makes solid coolers, but they are indeed overpriced. Noctua's biggest advantage is its long-term support for different platforms with its existing coolers (free upgrade kits in my experience), but Arctic has also started doing the same, so I'm happy that competition's ramped up from different manufacturers at better prices.
My main point is that any competition against Noctua is great, and by extension that makes Scythe a competitor against Arctic, Thermalright, and Deepcool in the air-cooling market if the price is competitive enough. No fanboyism here, my man.
The air cooler market is the most exciting thing in the DIY PC space at this point. Noctua's commitment to taking their time is getting harder and harder.
matching (or beating) Noctua's performance doesn't really seem like much an issue (other companies already have done it), I just want a competitor to their support.
Depends! That's definitely true on the NH-D15. Seems like that cooler is beaten in many scenarios. The Noctua ultra low profile coolers have been tough for competitors to beat though, so the Shuriken 3 apparently tries to do that. We might do a round-up of SFF coolers to test it.
@@GamersNexus i run nh-d15 on i5-13600kf and im very pleased with the results. never goes above 80c on full load and fans arent spinning into space.
Good support costs money. With Scythe trying to compete on price, they won't be able to offer the kind of long-term support and other stuff like free mounting kits for new sockets, like Noctua does.
Be Quiet! and Arctic are pretty good from my experience and anecdotal reports, although Noctua probably still the best at providing things like compatibility pages.
Noctua still best overall - but you pay for that. My NF-A14s going strong over 5 years now. NHD15S chromax ran perfectly for 3 years, I ended up going to AIO when I upgraded.
I've been a Scythe fan for years and it's fantastic to see them make a rebound in recent years. All of this competition has been very welcome.
Thanks Steve!
So glad to see you covering this Brand. I just saw them when I was fixing to do a Custom Build, and I was definitely impressed with the spec and prices alone off their Kaze II Case/AiO Fans...definitely watch out Noctua!
So hyped for more scythe products, really was impressed when i stumbled upon them. Great coverage as always GN Crew
Scythe is doing great work the last years. I absolutely love my Fuma and they keep making it better. As a NR200 owner I am seriously thinking about switching to a white Fuma 3 Rev B.
Yay for the Big Shuriken 4! I hope I can get my hands on one, whenever it comes out. I haven't been able to find the Big Shuriken 3 *anywhere* for like two years.
Scythe was the oldschool brand for cooling along with Zalman.
The new cooler could be a Thermalright competitor if they said theyre targeting sub-$40. Always glad to see more competition there!
I don't own any Scythe products, but I'm really impressed with their attempts of innovation and iteration. It's awesome that they're so open to listening to the public and sharing their findings too! It's a company that I respect, it's not often you see transparency like this :)
Big fan of Scythe, got a Scythe Katana 2 back in high school based on aesthetic and it seeming solid, loved that fan and glad to see them being competitive and not just cool names. Got my current computer full of Grand Tornados with a Noctua CPU cooler.
Oh man this is exciting, I've been using the Fuma 3 on my 13700K (undervolted) and it's been good from what I can tell, but I was really wanting a blackout version and was confused what happened to it after watching your video from last year. Good to see it's still in the plans
I have the same processor. Mind me asking why you undervolted it?
@@LemonRush7777 With cinebench it hit 102C lol, got it down 10 degrees while also improving performance from 28K points to 30K and max wattage from like 270 to 215
Hey Steve, thank you a lot for also doing coverage on cases and fans/coolers besides the typical PC hardware parts. Back in the 2000s, cases and coolers were fairly commonly reviewed in written media, but after websites were nearly fully replaced by TH-cam in the last decade, very few channels review those parts because they don't bring as many views like CPUs and GPUs reviews.
can confirm fuma air is awesome.! using the 140 +slim fan idle at 30c all the time.
Gotta say, I’m quite a fan of this cool content
Wow Scythe and Antec doing big things and exciting things. Like a blast to the past in a very good way.
Bought a Fuma 3 recently and what I can say, they got me for the long run now. Them and Arctic seem to be such a good return for the money.
I appreciate the company working directly with an impartial tester. Being willing to spend resources this way is an excellent sign of care and quality.
Great coverage as always, I should ask my sister in law about the name tomorrow. She's Japanese and might know, at least she can translate...lol.
I think it was the premiere chef blade for kitchens though...
Yes, there is a kitchen knife manufacture named Magoroku 孫六(six grandchild).
Not sure how Scythe will write it in kanji
I still run a Scythe Big Shuriken 3 revB in a SilverStone Raven rvz03 and it’s good livin.
AWESOME. Cant wait to watch every single video. Dont care if theyre short-form content.
GN's news coverage is simply superior to the rest of the pack.
Some actual innovation! Very cool. I have a Fuma 2 right now, but I'd be interested in upgrading in the future.
love that ultra low profile heatsink
5:45 As a corollary. The maximum possible energy extraction efficiency for a wind turbine is about 59%. That's because the wind going into the turbine has to also push the air behind the turbine to flow through it. So yeah, your back pressure intuition is spot on. Even though some of the volumetric airflow of the fan will escape the fin stack now, the cooling performance should increase because the fan can use more of its energy to push air through the stack rather than being stalled by backflow.
I'm using a Scythe Mugen 5 Rev.B cooler with 2 120mm Noctua fans, very nice combo and I'm happy with Scythe. Does a good job cooling my 5800X3D.
Thermalright has an amazing Noctua L9 competitor with their AXP90 line. Definitely should check those out.
Magoroku Kanemoto (孫六兼元), also known as Magoroku of Seki (関孫六), is a famous 15-16th century swordsmith from Mugi-gun, Minonokuni (present day Seki, Gifu prefecture). Legend has it that many historical warlords carried Magoroku swords and they were highly disired. His name appears frequently in Japanese samurai novels and period works.
You're just paying for the name "Noctua" at this point. So many good coolers out there!
GN Computex content my favorite time of year
Straighter heatpipes for higher performance makes sense, the more curves the more resistance the capilary flow back to the hot end has to overcome. I suspect there will be some "critical radius" where the effect transists from low influence too high, as a function of radius. Which in turns would depend on the heatpipe diameter and type of wick. It would indeed be very nice to see some measurements in your well-controlled test environment!
🙌 Good stuff Scythe. Love the soldering and fan improvements
The big shuriken 3 was goated for awhile. Love Scythe’s coolers and fans. Excited for the changes!! Thanks for the updates Steve!
I have a Kotetsu Mk2 in one of my PCs on a 8700k. Still going strong and cool.
I wish more companies allowed you to tour their behind the scenes prototype stuff. It's a really interesting side that most people never see or even know it exists.
this was very cool, y'all tysm! what a neat relationship yer buildin with Scythe... super stoked for more ^_^
the one they manually notched is so cool to see. I love seeing companies that dev in this way rather than spending weeks tweaking models in cfd and getting nowhere.
I love how they think about sff when designing their tower coolers. There are so many that don't fit because of a couple centimeters but their's do. I'm using one on my nr200p and it fits perfectly
Arigato Tech Jesus.
The cut-down part of the Fuma 3 rev B is actually insane. Purposefully made to fit into the NR200. r/nr200 is gonna have a field day, lol
I've really liked Scythe videos, I'm going Big Air my next build and the fact they seem to be really cool people and they design some interesting coolers
This is a direct result of Thermalright
Love the innovation! Thanks for the coverage!
Really loving the competition and development in air cooler technology and price performance. While most other hardware sectors just throw bigger stuff and more money at problems, it's a breath of fresh air (pun perhaps intended?) to see air coolers going the opposite route.
Love your journalistic insight, Steve. Taking honest work to the extreme
I've been rockin a Mugen5 ARGB for a couple of years now. Great cooler, very happy with it.
Thermalright SI-128 had a centre pressure screw. Going back to LGA 775 socket, I just remember being able to overclock better on a Q9550, stable 3.4GHz 24/7/365.
I personally, like the way the some manufacturers are still developing down draft coolers. Would like to see, some bigger versions come back though.
Excited for the Revision B!
Thank you GN for having such fantastic industry relationships. Y'all have to be cool cats to get the interviews and privileged viewing. I should buy another merch.
I picked up a thermalright 360 AIO for €60. It's a big step up from air cooling
Would be interesting to see Scythe's take on a passive cooler.
Looking forward to what comes out and you to test
Awesome stuff from Scythe! Glad to see them pushing PC cooling solutions further which is great for the industry and the consumers :-)
Krass. Scythe’s still at it? Loved their Mid-2000 lineup.
I love seeing how the prototypes look like something I would do (you see? What you're looking at in my case isn't a hack job, it's actually precision engineering)
I think I'm all about liquid cooling right now, but if I ever decide to do a SFF build, or build for someone else, I know what to look for.
Love seeing Scythe still in the game.
The Ultra Kaze was the king of budget air cooling fans back in the day if you didn't care about noise
Happy with my Scythe Mugen 5. Will look at the Scythe lineup when it's time for another build.
Currently use the Mugen 5 aRGB and still my favorite CPU cooler of all time!
Maybe treating the air like a wave and making fins like waves synchronizing the air passage generates more friction and more cooling
I think once you get the new downdraft coolers, you should also test to see if the cutouts also improve VRM temps even more vs standard fans, as some of that thrown out air would still be blasted in a wide, downward angle. Also, please consider testing the reverse; with fans sucking up through the cooler and out the top.
Not only would they hit more of the fins, but also allows for more air on the memory and other heatsinks around them.
I'm currently rocking a Fuma 2, and love it. I'd be down to upgrade depending on how it performs in the eventual GN review. ;)
Honestly I forgot Scythe was still existing. I had a aftermarket GPU cooler for I think my GTX 260 back in the day, but thats about it. But its always good too see competition and innovation in a space.
I'm very interested in the effect of the cut outs on scythes low profile fans. Hope you'll get one to review soon!
Heck yeah, Scythe!
Did ANYONE ever came up with better radiator fans than the Gentle Typhoons like... ever? I'm rocking 8 of those in rig, don't remember ever even stopping to consider getting anything else when I was putting it together. Zero regrets
The market needs more Low Profile Cooler. THX Scythe!
Good to know that Scythe is working on a Fuma 3 revision, I believe it may explains why the normal version of it basically disappeared from online stores in my country.
Respect to Scythe for their commitment to working with gamers nexus. It really means a lot to see a company who is willing to go above and beyond what is required or necessary.
I've been extremely mulling over making a switch from Arctic P12 fans to Scythe fans just to change it up. I'll be watching with great interest!
I still have Scythe Ninja 5 :) it survived upgrade from AM4 to AM5 and still Kicking... I bought it 5 years ago
love seeing Scythe coverage
I love Scythe, the ve great products. I even collected a bunch of NOS Gentle Typhoon with the Nidec motor :-)
I got scythe fuma as my first custom tower's cpu fan and it's awesome for what I paid for.
this is honestly the best time of year. love your coverage
Do miss their Gentle Typhoons on the market. Hope the company makes a huge comeback
Had Scythe Mugen(?) on my OC''d E8400, what a chad of a cooller it was price/performance wise.
So many regular uploads here damn. Lovin it bros.
The cutouts in those fans should help a lot with VRM cooling.
With this kind of openness, who needs a marketing department!?
oh, computex have started. looking forward to EK part :D
I always look forward to your coverage of the tech conventions. When are you visiting EK’s both? Should I have popcorn ready?
All these large cases and no air radiators built for 200mm fans.
Not many cases support 230mm tower cooler height, but maybe a downdraft cooler someday.
steve, getting acsess to stuff no others can, cant wait for all the vids over the next few days
quick google search I was able to find that Magaroku was a master samurai swordsmith from the city of Seki in the middle of the Muromachi period (around 1336-1573).
Scythe is no joke, I used one of their coolers on my first video card. It was a single slot 8000something from the early nvidia days. It was screaming loud, the factory fan ran at 100% all the time. Scythe gave me my sanity back 😆
its great when companies are this open about what they are doing it gives me more faith in the company than trying to hide then just expect people to believe what they are saying when they release something new other companies should take note
They are really value for money. I run them in my own PC build instead of Noctua or Dark Rock. Will go with them again for my next upgrade.
I think we've already hit a wall with tower coolers with regards to high-end CPU cooling. They might need to do some drastic structural changes to accommodate the thermal headroom required by such CPUs. Perhaps kind of like the Jiushark or the Thermosyphon Ice Giant approach. Maybe crazy designs like triple-stacked towers (most big tower coolers have two), or 2+2 quad-stack with fans pointing up, or angled towers with wider fin-stacks. Heck, at this point I think it might even be worth it to try a cube single tower with three fans (2 sides, 1 on top or bottom).
My favorite brand for CPU coolers is back with the goods!!