Sporting an original design, this heatsink is composed of a tower of heat exchanging fins arranged at forty-five degree angle.

As ever, the idea is to allow for a better airflow from the motherboard across the heatsink to improve cooling performance.

Due to this new system, we found ourselves face to face with an imposing heatsink with a plastic enclosure, one which pleasingly features a blue LED glowing out of the back of your computer.

The base is made from copper, while the fins are in aluminum, and heat is pumped away by five separate heatpipes.

A 120 mm PWM fan draws air across the heatsink sports nine blades, and can be powered by either a traditional three-pin socket, or using PWM's proprietary four-pin system.

The advantage of this second option is that it offers more control over the fan's movement, including allowing it to rotate at slower speeds--which, in theory, should allow for quieter cooling.


Loud, but powerful

We certainly weren't disappointed by the G-Power's cooling performance.

It's an excellent heatsink, cooling even the hottest quad-core processors, but it's a bit less impressive in terms of keeping noise down, meaning that even at its slowest speeds it's not as quiet as the quietest Noctua model, the U12P.