HDT from the Xigmatek group is a short term for heat-pipe direct touch for this one of the solution for a CPU cooler, if you got sick of the reference OEM product, but with this new Xigmatek cooler for the previous Xigmatek Scorpion is the use of only removing the plastic pop up pins that the reference use for a quick install but not a good if you are a frequent CPU upgrade. And also to keep the cheap asses’ third-party coolers this will only cost you about $30 tops so the price looks a real treat to entry level people who like to start in a small league, before going out to the more experience modes which are more of an customizable cooler for those people who like to place a little tag of effort to make their own personality in each of their computer components.
Producing an ultra quiet CPU cooler have always been one of the difficult achievements for manufacturers in today’s high performance PCs. The key is finding the right balance between achieving a low noise level, while offering a cooling performance that’s effective and sufficient. Normally, you would either get excellent cooling performance, but higher noise level, or the opposite … low noise level, but averge cooling performance. To create a CPU cooler that offers effective cooling performance and low noise, Xigmatek have come up with a new design and cooling soultion called … Heatpipe Direct Touch (HDT) technology.
It has a striking impersonation of the Noctua tower CPU cooler and almost in the same league as the cooler too, being a cheap alternative to the more performance oriented coolers. With also a combo of a fans that can be installed in either end and have a copper heat-pipes running around touching the CPU directly but still being blocked by some flat surface but still has a good touch with the CPU head, and with eight separately spreading the heat to the individual fins keeping the idle temps ad around 37 degrees in any stock setting of a quad core, in the test is the more heat-producing QX6850, and load is at 66 degrees, just far off from being unstable, but if you want, by just over clocking it may eventually crash in load but the idle mode might have an annoying problem cooling it at 50 degrees.
Well this course of tests, with a quad this may look like a bad use on cooling solution, but if you stick to the lower end dual cores, it will work fine, so it doesn’t get stressed in numerous amount of cores. With the installing method can be either the AM2 socket or Intel LGA775, but don’t think about a Core 7i; so not that restrictive from the Scorpion series form Xigmatek. But overall the cooler is a good all-round value just par with the Noctua cooler; I would definitely buy it for a normal user computer system just to be safe so you cannot mistake from having a pre-overclock computer to the computer that crashes in the same frequency.
