Enermax have decided to take a daring entry into the CPU cooler market. Their debut line-up consists of a tower style cooler and a top-down style, low profile variant. A pair of actual heatsinks creates the line-up but Enermax have intelligently created 5 different products by bundling the tower style ETS-T40 with 3 different fan variations and the top-down style ETS-T60 with 2 unique fan configurations. Today, we will be looking at the tower style ETS-T40-VD which is bundled with Enermax’s extremely popular Vegas Duo fan. Be sure to keep an eye out for our review of the ETS-T60-VD soon!

The ETS-T40-VD is built around a single tower design consisting of 4 direct touch, 6mm copper heatpipes and an aluminium fin array. Enermax claim to have reached a “New Milestone” with their heatsink’s 0.09°C/W thermal resistance. The 3 innovations responsible for this value of thermal resistance are Enermax’s patented Stack Effect Flow (SEF), Vortex Generator Flow (VGF) and Vacuum Effect Flow (VEF). A single 120mm Enermax TB Vegas Duo fan is bundled with the ETS-T40-VD which utilizes the 4-pin PWM connector and is capable of reaching 1800 RPM while shifting up to 76 CFM of air.

Compatibility comes in the form of support for every modern Intel and AMD socket other than LGA 2011. At 160mm in height and weighing around 610g for the cooler alone, Enermax’s ETS-T40 cooler range should fit perfectly in most mid tower and above cases. Enermax have also included an extra pair of fan clips for enthusiasts who want to unlock every ounce of potential from the ETS-T40 heatsink.

With a retail price of around £37/€35 for the Vegas Duo version or less than £30/€30 for versions equipped with different fans, Enermax could have a CPU cooler which brings the aesthetic appeal to the table, but leaves the extortionate price tag behind.

The Chinese company known as Yeston have recently introduced their own version of the Radeon HD 6790 graphics card specially designed for the gamers with limited funds.

Through the combination of various economical solutions across the card, Yeston was able to reduce the price to a nice 799 RMB (around $125).

From the beginning, we notice two things, the cooler and the PCB. While the PCB has only been modified to be more economical, the heatsink as been entirely changed, with its design very familiar to that of the MSI Cyclone. Making contact with a copper-plate base, two 8 mm nickel-plated copper heatpipes project from the base and circle around the heatsink through two aluminium fin arc structure spirally-projecting on each side of the heatsink. A constant airflow is provided by a 80 mm fan at the center of the heatsink.

Using the 3+1 phase VRM, common coil-type chokes and DPAK MOSFEETs to power the 40 nm Barts LE GPU, this economical solution allows the HD 6790 to draw power from a single 6-pin PCIe power connecter, making it one of the few to offer such feature.

As for the GPU itself, featuring 800 stream processors, it is clocked at 840 MHz core while the 1GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit wide interface is clocked at 1050 MHz (4.20 GHz effective).

Display outputs are composed of two DVI as well as one HDMI 1.4a and one DisplayPort 1.2.

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The new design also features quick-snap brakets for fan mounting (enough are provided for 2 fans).

Scythe have launched the successor to the Big Shuriken CPU cooler with a few improvements with the release of the Big Shuriken 2, the number of copper heat-pipes has been increased from 4 to five, the new version also has an improved design to the heatsink which was previously solid has been replaced with two upper layers of aluminium fins, the mounting mechanism has been changed to the F.M.S.B. 4 (Flip Mount Super Back-Plate 4) using screws and a backplate, the socket list includes the Intel socket LGA1155, LGA1156, T / LGA775 and LGA1366 as well as AMD socket AM2, AM2+, AM3, AM3+ and FM1.

The new edition also comes with a Slip Stream Slim 120 PWM axial-fan with a thickness of only 12 mm making the total height of the unit 58mm, the included fan runs at between 500 and 2.000 rpm producing 12,13 to 45,47 CFM with a noise level of 9.32 – 33.67 dBA, the over-all dimensions are 125 x 135 x 58 mm at a weight of 410 g.

The unit is priced at an MSRP of 30 euro’s excluding VAT/TAX, for more details and further photo’s see here.

The relatively low profile company GlacialTech has hit the market with an affordable and silent CPU cooler. Far from an enthusiast standard this cooler is aimed sub 140W processors to run with low temperatures and noise at standard clock speeds. The Igloo 5620 series is equipped with only 2 copper heat pipes at the base but these lead in to a very dense aluminium heat sink arrangement which is cooled with a yellow 90mm ultra entering bearing fan. They make a PWM version of the 5620 which obviously has a PWM controlled fan, whilst they also make a Silent version of the 5620 which has a fan capped at 1200RPM or 20dBA. GlacialTech lists these features as being the most important:

Key Features

• Two D6 sinter heat-pipes
• 9 cm high efficiency bullet fan
• Heat-pipes contact directly
• Multi-platform

They stress a fantastic price to performance ratio but they did not disclose a price. However, we can expect this unit to rival something like the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 which retails at around £17/€18/$25 so this cooler has one less heat pipe so should be marginally cheaper we expect a retail price of about £14/€15/$21 if this product is to deliver on its price-to-performance promise.