Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme CPU Cooler

From the side we can see where the finds are bent up to seal off each opposing side of the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme.  What this does is it increases the velocity of the air passing through.  You can do this with a higher speed fan but higher speeds mean higher noise from the fan motor.  Increased velocity especially without mechanical assistance means more efficient cooling and a lower sound signature.  You also get your first good look at the upper most surface of the base here.  Notice the convection fins there too.  More on that later though.

Up top, is a small elevated plate attached by four Phillips head screws.  Removal of this plate is how you gain access to the Tuniq's fan.  From here you can also see that the scalloped design I referenced earlier is actually more of a cut resembling a wave in each stacked piece.

Removing the four screws allows the fan assembly to slide out of the Tuniq Tower should you wish to change the fan for any reason.  I'm not sure you would want to as Tuniq's fan utilizes what they call MFDB (Magnetic Fluid Dynamic Bearing) to make the fan operate very quietly.  The specs Tuniq cites is 16dBA at 1000RPM and 20dBA at 2000 RPM.  Those numbers are certainly attention getting.  The proof will be in the pudding.

A couple more shots of the scalloped or wave cut convection fins.  This particular cut really makes you appreciate how much surface area the Tower 120 Extreme offers for convection to cool any heat transmitted up from the heatpipes.

Next we have some better images of the five heatpipes and the convection fins coming up off the base.  I know that a lot of you all have been attaching memory coolers to the topside of heatpipe cooler bases in this manner for years just as I have.  It's good to see Tuniq doing the same to squeeze every drop of performance out of this cooler that they can.

Looking underneath we get a view of the Core Contact Technology as Tuniq calls their version of exposed heatpipes.  If you are unfamiliar with this, having the heatpipes being in direct contact with the heat source is a much more efficient way to get the thermal energy off your processor and up to the cooling assembly so it can be dispersed.

The heatpipes are constructed out of copper then coated with nickel.  That is all except for the contact area, which is lapped nicely down to expose the shiny copper.  The lapping job was far more than adequate but didn't quite reach "shaver" level.

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