Xigmatek Launches Gaia and Loki CPU Coolers

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Xigmatek has released two new CPU coolers onto the market today, both featuring similar H.D.T designs intended for cool and quiet performance. The GAIA SD1283 is a 120mm cooler, with total dimensions of 120(W) x 50(D) x 159(H) mm and weighing a modest 460 grams. The unit features three 8mm copper heat pipes that dissipate heat through stack aluminu... [ Read full article ]

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Aside from the "valley" indentions on the sides of the cooler, the Gaia is another variation of the original S1283, right?

[tunksy]

this is just becoming silly, why not release a cooler that actually improves of a previous design?

heck they havent even improved the distance between the heatpipe or from the looks of it the base quality. go redsign thor's hammer xigmatek

/disgruntled rant

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Originally Posted by tunksy

this is just becoming silly, why not release a cooler that actually improves of a previous design?

heck they havent even improved the distance between the heatpipe or from the looks of it the base quality. go redsign thor's hammer xigmatek

/disgruntled rant

I guess the heatpipe cooler technology has sort of reached a point of saturation. From here on, you must invent something fundamentally different. For the same reason, now pretty much every cooling company has a high-end cooler which perform 90% like the rest.

Remember back in the day when Zalman launched the initial heatpipe-cooler based designs? Then there was a market leader. Today? It's a price war for essentially the same product.

Maybe cheap, small water cooling units (e.g. Corsair H70, Coolit Eco) will be the next revolution?