Design and Functionality

The cooler design doesn’t boast anything innovative about it, but is still a little different from what we used to see before:

Two nickel-plated copper heatpipes, each 6mm in diameter, originate from the copper base. They cross one another (this is where the X in the cooler name comes from, I assume) and after that get parallel to the mainboard PCB surface.

Each heatpipe hold an array of 24 aluminum plates, each about 0.3mm thin:

The whole thing is topped with a black aluminum casing with a 120-mm fan attached to it:

I have to admit that there were two questions that kept bothering me every time I looked at the cooler: why are there only two heatpipes and not four, and why would they cross them with one another anyway?

There could have been four heatpipes coming out of the cooler base, each leading to its part of the heatsink array. In this case they wouldn’t have had to cross them… I wish I had a reasonable explanation for that decision.

The cooler measures 120x120x100mm. It is very interesting that the cooler weight is claimed to be 125g on the cooler box and on the company’s official web-site. However, this is obviously the weight of just the heatsink at best, because the fan alone weighs about 100g or more.

Since we mentioned the fan, I have to point out that the cooler we received is equipped with a 120mm fan with constant rotation speed of ~1500RPM:

At this speed our 7-blade fan creates 52.25CFM airflow and generated 23.53dBA of noise. The fan is decorated with four white LEDs in the corners:

AeroCool Xfire solution that comes with the fan rotation speed controller unit has variable rotation speed changing in the interval from ~800RPM to ~1500RPM.

The base surface is finished pretty well, although we discovered a few scratches on it, which may have emerged because there was no protective film of any kind on it: