Scythe Mugen 3 Rev.B CPU Cooler Review

The Scythe Mugen 3 sports an interesting design innovation that we’ve not really seen on many other CPU coolers. As you can see the base plate, which is nickel plated copper, is equipped with its own heat sink for extra heat dissipation. Scythe have routed each heat pipe triplet from either side of the CPU block  to a separate heat sink stack. Cooling performance looks like it should be really good just from this angle alone.

Here you can see a much better angle of the partially-separated four heat sink stacks that carry three heat pipes through each. From this side it looks deceptively like there are 12 heat pipes but remember there are 6 bent round in a “U” shape.

Scythe certainly haven’t skimped out on the base, its perfectly flat and a mirrored finish. Providing you apply the thermal paste well, contact with the processor should allow for high performance cooling.

Next we will talk you through our test procedure and system before moving on to show you the mounting kit, talk you through the mounting process and show you the mounted product on our test system.