?A little while ago we took a look at the Cooler Master Eclipse CPU cooler. While it had a very unique design its' cooling was not up to par with other coolers out there. Well today we are going to check out the Hyper TX from Cooler Master, which has a fairly basic design, but offers exceptional cooling and easy installation. Sorry to all you Intel fans out there, but we are taking a look at the AMD version. Cooler Master does make an Intel version that will fit Intel CPU's including the new Core 2 Duo's. So let's take a look.?

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Since December last year we?ve tested close to 50 new heatsinks on AMD and Intel platforms; we have noticed a positive trend developing, where silent computing is being put more into the spotlight.

With both AMD and Intel striving to produce cooler CPUs, these monster heatsinks will have an easy time keeping them cool, even at low fan speeds.

Fortunately, what concerns budget coolers for AMD, distributors are not asleep. They try to fight the scarcity of the market offering a more or less decent choice of budget models. A total number of budget models for Socket 754, Socket 939 and Socket AM2 offered these days on the market reaches half a hundred ? it's still far from the variety of the age of AMD Socket A and Intel Socket 478, but it's enough to form the critical mass that requires from us a complex approach to reviewing such products. So it seems like a good time to get our test procedure for consumer cooling systems, brush the dust off it, update and use it to review modern budget coolers for Athlon 64. But first of all, let's examine the new models ? one cooler from Arctic Cooling, one cooler from Cooler Master, and three models from GlacialTech. Let's also examine several old coolers that didn't make it to our reviews (7 models from Foxconn, Speeze, and Thermaltake). Let's get down to it!

Two stubby 8mm diameter hi-capacity copper heatpipes connect the thick nickel plated copper base to the outer tips of a series of thin aluminum fins. By selecting a fewer number of heatpipes for the AK-873 heatsink, Akasa engineers are able to move similar amounts of heat without creating excess resistance to airflow. Heatsinks which rely on three or more heat pipes can often suffer from increased resistance to airflow because of all the objects passing through cooling fins. Whether or not this design choice enables the Akasa AK-873 heatsink to excel will depend on how this cooler handles itself on the synthetic temperature test platform...