The ASUS lion, with a full tower cooling solution for the hot CPU in mind with the Lion Square going in a Chinese theme for their cooler, and the past naming coming from “the legend of the Sword Lion” the package when ordered have a flash red and a dash of black and some gold colour to accommodate the rich build of the cooler, with the plastic and aluminium fins with the plastic being the connector of all of the cooler and the aluminium as the spreader. With a Chinese lion picture on top of the cooler to give it a more feel that it is the ASUS Lion square, well, it is not a square it actually a circle type of cooler with an internal cooling fan inside it.
With the build quite exactly as the other ASUS tower coolers but with four U-shaped aluminium heat-pipes by placing the heat upward effectively having eight individual heat-pipes, with 24-fin aluminium pointing down to have the air blown down to the surrounding heat-sinks in the board, with grooves left out in the tower cooler to easily use the screw driver and screwing in the cooler safely, rather than having a hassle over it. The Lion Square can be used in any AMD2+ and Intel’s LGA775 sockets with the AMD clip on and Intel’s screw in, you are also recommended to remove the board for Intel then installing it, while the AMD is just a simple, clip on but most of the features installing the cooler are in the hands reach and easy to do, so for novice users are able to do it with the aid of some instructions
With the base of the Cooler is small but in turn very thick, with no mirror effect in the base of the cooler and no clean surface for the cooler but having an even surface of the cooler may give it a good contact to the CPU.
With The cooling performance of the ASUS is with the 65nm warm CPU QX6850, with the sound level as loud as an ATI 4870 graphics cooler, but not as hot as it is with 35 degrees in idle with stock speed as the test, and at overclocking test, keeps its cool with almost the same factor to the Gigabyte cooler in both Idle and load in an overclocked CPU. Plus the added design of Blue LED fans going outside the fins looks like it came from outer space, with the window case being a good way to see the cooler glow in the dark of our case very interests me. With a definite low price of about $50, a cooler of a fan with loud noises but with a LED light to impress the insides of the case, this could be a better deal.
