Scythe Ninja Mini - $29.99 shipped at Newegg

treker · Post by **treker** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:26 pm

The Full Size Ninja B is only $10 more and about 1.5inch taller but with more cooling power. Use it with Thermalright Bolt Thru kit for rock solid mounting on Intel775 mobo. I have one and I like it!

brickout · Post by **brickout** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:21 pm

^^all that is true, but the Mini is fantastic for people who don't want to spend 10 extra dollars, don't have the extra space for the fullsize, or don't need the extra cooling power.

i have the mini and love it.

bendit · Post by **bendit** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:24 pm

yeah the minja is a great deal at $30.

dhanson865 · Post by **dhanson865** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:32 am

two of the reviewers on newegg actually used the mini to cool a 125W TDP FX-62.
125W TDP!

Not only did it cool it, but they bragged about how it cooled so much better than the 4 heatpipe heatsink that AMD provides (which has a 5000 rpm thermally adjusted fan).

This cools VERY well. Dropped temperatures from stock 4 pipe AMD cooler: (full load) 54c to 46c (idle) 42c to 34c With the stock 80mm fan.

So yeah, the Ninja cools better than a Ninja Mini but if you have a 65W TDP part or less would you notice the difference?

If the stock fan on the Ninja Mini were a 92mm fan that runs under 2000 rpm at 12v (and would start at 5v reliably so we could run it at 5v fixed) it would have been the perfect mid range cooler. If they drop the price enough it would offset the cost of buying a 92mm fan.

As is its still good enough to run passively on those 45W or less TDP CPUs that are becoming more common nowadays.