Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

Posted by: Sahil Mannick on: 30-11-2011 [ 5 comment(s) ]

Alpenföhn have sent us their new monstrous looking twin-tower K2 cooler to review. Will their efforts claim them the top spot on our charts?

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Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

kraken Posts: 253 Joined: 2009-05-18

#21368 Posted on: 30.11.2011 23:38:45 Absolute beast of a cooler in size. A real shame the performance was just slightly off hopefully one of there products will top the charts soon. Nice to see a manufactor taking on board your thoughts not often that you see that happen.

Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

PCplod Posts: 759 Joined: 2011-10-13

#21371 Posted on: 01.12.2011 08:17:51 Excellent review on a cooler as usual from vortez. Great design really love the look of it, on paper and due to it design and sheer size you would think it would be the best, although just doesnt cut the mustard, but only a few degree's its still one of the best. I think one of the reasons its not slightly better may be the closed fins at the side, which due to its design ad in thoery should work but think doesnt in this situtation. Great review and still exellent cooler though performs with the best and looks great

Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

ehume Posts: 89 Joined: 2009-11-14

#21392 Posted on: 03.12.2011 01:41:50 Nice review, Sahil. As usual, Alpenföhn can't seem to make a winning design -- just an also-ran. At least it's quiet. I think one mistake is closing those edges. I'm at the end of a long series of tests with the NH-D14, and I have come to see the air blowing out from the sides of the first finstack and being drawn into the second finstack as adding to the cooling effect. And I think we can see that eight heatpipes is two too many. I love the granular analysis. Keep it up.

Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

Essexraptor Posts: 323 Joined: 2010-09-27

#21400 Posted on: 03.12.2011 12:14:23 Excellent review Sahil I like the look of that mounting system. The Silver Arrow can be a devil to fit correctly. I've found that this is most crucial part with these big twin tower coolers. Not exactly right and you get poor performance I appreciate you cover all angles with your testing methods. But paying out for extra/or better fans on top of the £65 is not a deal winner really Silver Arrow for the win! LOL

Alpenföhn K2 CPU Cooler Review

Earthmonger Posts: 38 Joined: 2011-10-26

#21411 Posted on: 04.12.2011 11:31:09 As a water cooler, I'm not interested in the K2 at all. However, must say those fans look spectacular. I've never really noticed them before, but I'm certainly going to look them up now. Great pics by the way.

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