I don’t know if anyone else here watches “Ace of Cakes”. It seems like every single one they make is bigger than the last. I’m always sure that they’re going to topple over and cover an entire block with icing. He makes the coolest looking stuff, and his motto is; “Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome.” I’m starting to think that EverCool took this lesson to heart when they started designing the Transformer series of heatsinks. When I reviewed the Transformer 6 last year, I had my doubts as to whether this thing’s weight would snap my motherboard like a twig. It was absolutely enormous.
Now as I get ready to check out the Transformer 4, and am truly frightened by what could happen when this thing is finally mounted. The total weight of this heatsink is 843.5 grams, or 1.85 pounds. That’s a lot of gear to be hanging off of a fragile printed circuit board. If it were mounted vertically, such as in an HTPC, then I would say the weight wouldn’t be an issue. But nearly two pounds hanging perpendicular? This, I will have to see to trust. Which I guess is why I’m doing this kind of work, isn’t it?
Here’s a little info on the Transformer 4 before we get started:
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On the next page we take a look inside…
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Coolers this size just make me mad. Why would I want all that force warping my motherboard 24 hours a day ? The air cooling arena has gotten quite silly and redundant, The Corsair H50 and the new A.L.C solutions from Coolit is where cpu cooling is going. Seriously, strap two pounds of metal to my motherboard to cool my proc ? 2010 and that is the best they can come up with ?
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