We got a square example with ASUS before with the example of the Square lion, with a Chinese theme in the top of the cooler and now we have another competitor to the Square name, now the axe version of it. With the ASUS touch of being a exceptional large cooler to look at being the magic trademark of the ASUS branding, but with the performance score of the Lion Square it went well in the stress test in the fields quad core stress and unacceptable over clocking, but prevailed but not that much, so we only recommend it to the more cooler dual cores of E8000 series with the previous ASUS cooler, but we would even mess with the cool design placed in both of the previous and the items that we are going to review
So with the new Axe Square form ASUS is already changing the design of the cooler already having a full large fan placed on top of the cooling heat sink rather than having it internally of the cooler, it may have some advantages over the internal tunnel design fan, but well will make the test speak about it later. For the design orientation, it has a full gold cover and also a directing the air properly downwards to the aluminum and copper fins and heat-pipes, all the way down to the CPU itself and spreading the hot air to the nearby MOSFET chipsets and the PWM’s. But with the design really looks good to look at in a windowed case and in the sense now ASUS or even the RoP are now showing off a little bit of their god stuff physically, but more often now it is really declining, in a sense that the cooler as the example, is going down in performance, with the test results show that the cooler when okay in stock setting with the usual quad core heat-producer QX6850, at 39 degrees in idle and whooping 79 degrees in load, just a whisker before going unstable. But when you push the cooler too far, it will eventually crash and in load times made a last score result 79 degrees before crashing. So a high performance cooler form ASUS is now dying down and also their coolness of them also.
Well this is a real bad cooler to ask myself, and the price will answer itself with a $140 asking price, you would stuff your head in a Xigmatek cooler in the previous review and frequently crash with it rather paying that much; so with this ASUS, I would even recommending this to you, or if you have a dual core or like whatsoever you like the design of a poor performer.
