[CeBIT 06] Scythe Infinity and much more.

Dragon Puppy · Post by **Dragon Puppy** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:04 am

Scythe Infinity

In their other news are passive 7600 & 7900

and 16Gt flash drive for 600$

Or Samsung 32Gt flash drive for ~960$.

And for HTPCs that uses an slow(quiet) cpu an H.264 Hardware decoder

Yep I'm to laisy to make multiple topics in their correct forum this late and after an looong day at work sorry.

I tried to look for topics about these and didn't find any.

BrianE · Post by **BrianE** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:58 pm

Thanks for posting.

The Scythe Infinity looks interesting with 5 heat pipes. Too bad there isn't a better shot of how closely the fins are spaced.

I like the second video card cooler. I wonder if that is Gigabyte or Galaxy... either way it almost looks as if both coolers use enclosed fins towards the rear of the cards, like is supposed to duct air through them to the outside (in or out, who knows what they expect though).

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:54 am

The right pic must be the Galaxy since the cooler in the left pic is Gigabytes Silent-Pipe II.

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:00 am

Scythe also has new Silent Box, a Fan controller, working on silent PSU, another high performance cooler with support for 140mm fan size, and more. working on putting our Cebit coverage online asap

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:35 am

jmke wrote:Scythe also has new Silent Box, a Fan controller, working on silent PSU, another high performance cooler with support for 140mm fan size, and more. working on putting our Cebit coverage online asap

Did they show the NCU-3000? I have an NCU-2000, so I have a sort of personal interest in that upcoming model.

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:39 am

yes the NCU-3000 was on display; here's what I've wrote up on the NCU for upcoming Cebit coverage:

"Scythe is constantly looking for new ways to keep high end PCs cool with passive cooling, on the photo below at the left you see a first design of their chipset cooling, it's not finalized and there might be some changes still. Next to it you see their NCU-3000, but unfortunately the increased size of the fins did not deliver the expected performance increase, the Scythe Ninja is still the top performer in passive cooling. As an experiment they made a Ninja out of copper, while it did improve performance 2-3°C, the extra weight required changes to the mounting mechanism, so it's not going into the retail channels, you might see a few units appear here and there, as they made a small batch."

so the NCU-3000 in its current state won't see the daylight as the performance was not up to par

this is the photo I'm referring to in the quoted text (copy & paste link to address bar) http://www.madshrimps.be/articles/Cebit ... -11015.jpg

BrianE · Post by **BrianE** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:26 pm

Thanks very much.

Too bad that the NCU-3000 isn't ready. I can't see what they would do to improve the performance of it though... I can see from the picture that they added extra fins to both sides of it already. I suppose they just have to identify what's limiting heat transfer and try to improve whatever that is.

Too bad about that copper Ninja too...

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:14 am

the copper Ninja is not that expensive to make, as the fins are quite thin, but the total weight would mean that they have to ship an extra metal bracket and instruct users to only use that bracket and no others; any oversight by the end-user and the Ninja might break their plastic bracket and cause serious damage

winguy · Post by **winguy** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:35 pm

How's the Scythe SCMN-1000 (MINE COOLER)?

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:43 pm

it's quite compact, and should be on the same performance level on the Scythe Shogun; it has support for fans 70->140mm. It will feature the same install method as the (recently reviewed by SPCR) Scythe Samurai Z.

TooNice · Post by **TooNice** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:25 pm

Does this mean there is nothing set to replace the Ninja on the horizon?

Will Scythe update the Ninja to add support for AM2 (out of the box)?

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:18 pm

I don't know fur sure, but I think they are aiming the NCU-3000 to be their top dog in passive cooling.

here's my "coverage" on Scythe @ Cebit 2006
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getart ... rticID=423

mbetea · Post by **mbetea** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:53 pm

With coolers all the time getting bigger (and heavier) I wonder when we will see something like on an Intel approved server chassis? Where the heatsink is bolted through the board and into the motherboard tray.

Felger Carbon · Post by **Felger Carbon** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:59 pm

jmke wrote:yes the NCU-3000 was on display; here's what I've wrote up on the NCU for upcoming Cebit coverage:

...so the NCU-3000 in its current state won't see the daylight as the performance was not up to par

jmke, meet jmke:

jmke wrote:I don't know fur sure, but I think they are aiming the NCU-3000 to be their top dog in passive cooling.

I'm still interested in the NCU-3000.

jmke · Post by **jmke** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:09 pm

yes I know what I wrote:)

what I mean is that they will redesign a new product from the ground up with aim to outdo Ninja performance wise and they'll call it NCU-3000

TooNice · Post by **TooNice** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:24 pm

But the Ninja is a good marketing name...

Ninja -> Silent -> Passive