Introduction

If you think this Molex Company is the same one as that one behind the four pin Molex connector, you would be right.  Molex Thermal Acoustics was once a private company named Silent Systems.  The Molex we all are familiar with bought the company and moved the business to its corporate office area in Illinois in October 1999.  So with Molex's acquisition of a company specializing in silent coolers, they may have got the know-how to combine with a fistful of money to put out some efficient coolers.  The Molex coolers are designed for the OEM market but the design is there for a good cooler, let's see if they can pull it off though.

If you want a good cooler, a thin high count fin design is an excellent place to start.  As you can see in our Molex model 37256-0005 model shown below, twenty-five aluminum fins are present.  These are welded to the base.  We didn't notice any imperfections with the fins being mated flush and in good contact to the sinks base.  As we have said in other reviews, this can make or break a cooler.  The fins have tiny folds at about mid height.  These folds keep the fins from being bent or mashed together.

Covering the fins, is an aluminum shroud that channels air out two sides of the sink.  This type of air channeling increases the velocity of the air flow which is just as important if not more so than the volume of air.  A hole is cut out on top to allow the fan to do it's job.

The base is attached primarily in it's four corners by the way of small notches coming off the copper plate making up the base that catch into precut slots in the shroud.

We couldn't feel any imperfections on the 4mm think base but lots of scratches were clearly obvious.  I am attributing these to happening to the sink after it was made.  With the high buff that was given the base to attain this mirror like finish, I find it doubtful that the scratches we saw would have survived this lapping.  Perhaps this is a packing or general quality control issue but we're not going to loose too much sleep over it because this s designed to be an OEM sink.

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