Design seems to be a theme for today, but for some products a flashy design might be overdoing it. Even if most people have their components enclosed inside a chassis there are evidentially those who care how the systems looks on the inside. Thermaltake has taken this to mind when designing its latest processor cooler, Thermaltake V1, which isn’t just able to keep the latest processors form AMD and Intel cool, but also do it with panache.
The solid copper cooler has already won a “reddot design award” and we can certainly see why. It has two large and shapely fan-shaped heatsinks with a 120mm fan squeezed in between them. Heatpipes makes it possible for the 600g cooler to handle the heat coming from Intel’s quad-core processors and do it at a pleasant noise level, 16dBA-24dBA.
The only missing feature is the support for AMD’s Phenom processors. This is a re-announcement for the European market, in the US you can find it for $50, while prices are about the same around Europe.
