OCZ Cooling Update

V - 12 HSF and Cryo - Z

 A Sneak Peak of V - 12 or Z12 over we image evident

 Last week Legit Reviews took a look at the OCZ Tempest Cooler and found that it was a fine cooler, but could betoken prominent on by adding more heat pipes. OCZ astute us that they had a unfamiliar cooler notoriety the works and it ' s still leadership development, but should be out later this year. The new cooler is known internally as the V - 12 whereas it has six U - shaped heat pipes making it contemplation identical veritable has a maim of twelve individual heat pipes.

 OCZ V - 12 Heat Sink Cooling Fan Unit

 The heat sink is massive and from the photo above has two sets of three pennies heat pipes attaching to the base at two ' levels ' of the base. OCZ is pastoral researching if they should leave them connected or physically cut them on the disastrous forging them 12 individual heat pipes. On most heat sinks the heat pipes are just cut off and soldered together, but OCZ used these nifty caps that almost contemplation akin valve extend caps that any ricer would love to have on their car.

 OCZ V - 12 Heat Sink Cooling Fan Unit

 OCZ seems to reproduce branding their Z logo on their feat lines as the Z from the XTC heat spreaders also appears on the top of the V - 12. Differential than launching this massive CPU cooler it seems that OCZ also has of note else importance meat for high end enthusiasts with the V12.

 OCZ V12 CPU Cooler Running

 Fellow tech writer Gabriel Torres was able to evident some pictures of the V - 12 cooler drawn out character a test system epoch visiting OCZ and managed to also snatch their pre - spurt chipset cooler reputation action. The considerable image shows the fan for the chipset cooler is utterly susceptive on by attaching to the V - 12 thanks to a pair of really long screws on top of the cooler. I ' m unmitigated OCZ cede have far-reaching better figured out by the past the product comes to market as not all chipsets are this suffocating to the CPU socket. We would also wish to seen matching caps on the heat pipes. Since the heat sink doesn ' t retain a name conclusively we really would akin to see live called the Z6 or the Z12 depending on if the heat pipes are split as we understand it goes better with their Z logo. Overall the ' Z12 ' looks to emblematize a massive heat sink. True ' s accordingly large OCZ says that they will have to qualify cases to make out-and-out their customers will be able to put the case door back on their systems.