All of the cooler’s aluminum plates bear the new Scythe logo:

The ends of the pipes are neatly sealed by soldering. The photograph also gives you a good view of the aluminum heatsink at the bottom of the cooler. It is meant to take some thermal load off the pipes and to serve as a support for various fastening mechanisms.

The copper plate at the cooler’s base is only 2.5mm thick. The ends of the heat pipes that contact it are flattened to about 3mm.

In the Scythe Infinity cooler the pipes in the base are not flattened as much as they are in the Scythe Andy Samurai Master (I wrote about that in my Scythe Infinity review). So, the area of contact between the heat pipes and the base as well as the sole of the smaller heatsink is considerably increased in the new cooler.

Top-Flow technology implemented in the Scythe Andy Samurai Master means that the fan mounted on the cooler’s heatsink must cool the near-socket area and elements of the mainboard.

The photograph shows that the cooler’s heatsink has smaller dimensions than the fan, so the air will pass not only through the ribs, but also on both sides of the heatsink through the large gaps. Yet I doubt the airflow will be strong enough to cool the mainboard properly considering the high ribbing density and the low fan speed.

The new cooler makes use of a fan on a slide bearing. The fan has a Scythe logotype, but its marking, DFS122512L, betrays that its actual manufacturer is Akasa:

The fan speed is constant at 1200rpm, providing 49.58CFM airflow at a noise of 20.94dBA. The cooler is exceptionally quiet at work.

The cooler’s base is protected against scratches with a piece of film: