Question Unknown cooler brand

[Karano82]

This might be a long shot. I have had this cooler for over 10 years now. Got it from a friend. I have no idea what brand or anything about it. I only know that it is very large and can dump heat like nobodies business ^^
I ran cinebench and in less than 20 seconds it dumped the temp from 98c to 35c when test was done. I find it impressive, though i have no idea if it actually is 😅

Can anyone maybe recognise it or maybe steer me in some direction as to what brand made this monster?

Would be nice to know a little about it.

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[punkncat]

That is a beast of a cooler. Where it appears there is a Noctua fan on it, I don't recognize it as one of their designs.

 

[Karano82]

That is a beast of a cooler. Where it appears there is a Noctua fan on it, I don't recognize it as one of their designs.

Yeah, the original fan died ^^ bearings gave out and started to whine 😅 I'll update original post and ask responders to ignore the noctua fan.

 

[Karano82]

This might be a long shot. I have had this cooler for over 10 years now. Got it from a friend. I have no idea what brand or anything about it. I only know that it is very large and can dump heat like nobodies business ^^
I ran cinebench and in less than 20 seconds it dumped the temp from 98c to 35c when test was done. I find it impressive, though i have no idea if it actually is 😅

Can anyone maybe recognise it or maybe steer me in some direction as to what brand made this monster?

Would be nice to know a little about it.

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Ignore the noctua fan. Original became whiny, so the noctua is just a replacement.

 

[Eximo]

Scythe Mugen of some sort, probably the 3:

https://www.techpowerup.com/147991/scythe-releases-third-edition-of-mugen-cpu-cooler-series

Kind of looks like the Mugen 4 as well, but the tops of the heatpipes were handled differently

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...AI#imgrc=TO5SIPgK9GkTrM&imgdii=ncvrPoHiG2_teM

 

[punkncat]

Scythe Mugen of some sort, probably the 3:

https://www.techpowerup.com/147991/scythe-releases-third-edition-of-mugen-cpu-cooler-series

Kind of looks like the Mugen 4 as well, but the tops of the heatpipes were handled differently

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200712/scytheinfinity_clip1.jpg&tbnid=TO5SIPgK9GkTrM&vet=10CFQQMyiOAWoXChMI2Mi1uYbehAMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAI..i&imgrefurl=https://www.frostytech.com/articles/2215/index.html&docid=TCR9llmV_LqVnM&w=550&h=206&q=lga775 scythe cpu cooler&hl=en&ved=0CFQQMyiOAWoXChMI2Mi1uYbehAMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAI#imgrc=TO5SIPgK9GkTrM&imgdii=ncvrPoHiG2_teM

Check out the big brain on Brad!

Good find.

 

[Eximo]

I vaguely recall reading the reviews for that around when it came out. I was looking for cooling for my i7-950, ended up with a Tuniq 120 Extreme which I still have.

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Heatsink Review on FrostyTech.com

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Heatsink Review - FrostyTech.com

www.frostytech.com

 

[Karano82]

Scythe Mugen of some sort, probably the 3:

https://www.techpowerup.com/147991/scythe-releases-third-edition-of-mugen-cpu-cooler-series

Kind of looks like the Mugen 4 as well, but the tops of the heatpipes were handled differently

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.frostytech.com/articleimages/200712/scytheinfinity_clip1.jpg&tbnid=TO5SIPgK9GkTrM&vet=10CFQQMyiOAWoXChMI2Mi1uYbehAMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAI..i&imgrefurl=https://www.frostytech.com/articles/2215/index.html&docid=TCR9llmV_LqVnM&w=550&h=206&q=lga775 scythe cpu cooler&hl=en&ved=0CFQQMyiOAWoXChMI2Mi1uYbehAMVAAAAAB0AAAAAEAI#imgrc=TO5SIPgK9GkTrM&imgdii=ncvrPoHiG2_teM

Date of release and visuals match extremely well. I do believe you're right 😁 fantastic ^^

 

[Karano82]

I vaguely recall reading the reviews for that around when it came out. I was looking for cooling for my i7-950, ended up with a Tuniq 120 Extreme which I still have.

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Heatsink Review on FrostyTech.com

Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Heatsink Review - FrostyTech.com

www.frostytech.com

I use it on a i7-4790k. Does a marvellous job at keeping it cool ^^ and yes, my setup is beginning to feel outdated 😅 RAM and gpu are equally old tech. 16 gigs of 1333mhz ddr3 and a 1050ti gpu.

 

[Eximo]

That is how I started looking for it, starting with your Z97 motherboard. Knowing it was an older cooler I assumed it was LGA775 compatible which meant it was also LGA115x compatible. Looked at popular brands from around then until I spotted a Scythe cooler with similar heatpipe detail, then looked through various Scythe images until I found a review.

 

[Karano82]

That is how I started looking for it, starting with your Z97 motherboard. Knowing it was an older cooler I assumed it was LGA775 compatible which meant it was also LGA115x compatible. Looked at popular brands from around then until I spotted a Scythe cooler with similar heatpipe detail, then looked through various Scythe images until I found a review.

Impressive detective skills 👍🙂