Thanks for the review. Just one comment - there are multiple references to the case being "hexagonal", but you mean octagonal surely? Just to be a pedant.

Thanks for the input guys, I really appreciate it. I guess I've been too focussed on utilising the case fan position explicitly for CPU cooling, when the products on the market don't really cater for that any more.

Currently I have a Silverstone NT01-E in the case, sitting on a Phenom II X4 840 (the "fake" Phenom), which is 95W TDP. The heatsink is being fed by a 120mm Slipstream case fan, PWM-controlled from the motherboard CPU fan header. This does an adequate job of cooling the processor but has to spin up ...

Long time lurker, first time poster, yada yada. I've been on the lookout for a while for a cooler that will fit and work well with my Antec NSK2480B case, since the cooler everyone recommends (Scythe Mini Ninja) is out of production. I have a Silverstone NT01-E in it now (rotated to the direction of...