Prolimatech Genesis CPU Cooler Review

👤by Sahil Mannick Comments 📅08-07-11
Closer Look


The Prolimatech Genesis

The Genesis is a stunning looking heatsink thanks to its aluminium construction and nickel-plated finish. Its unique styling represents style as much as it is orientated towards performance. The fins have a reflective finish. The Genesis is composed of two heatsinks perpendicular to each other. One stands upright like a typical heatsink tower and one faces the motherboard PCB, representing the down-draft component. Each heatsink has the ends of the six heat pipes passing through.


From a slightly different angle

From the side, we can see that the Genesis spans a great width, 216.47mm to be exact. The weight of the heatsink is surprisingly well distributed as demonstrated by its ability to stand up without toppling over.


The side profile

The fin array is planar with each fin stacked parallel to each other and flat in nature. Both heatsinks use the same construction but vary in size. On appearance, the fin array is dense to maximise the surface area. The horizontal heatsink is connected to the base through the six purposely bent heat pipes. It has 48.2mm of clearance above the base of the motherboard so even large memory modules can fit. Obviously, users will need to check the size of their modules as obscenely tall modules such as OCZ blades will not fit.


The first radiator

The vertical tower is 107.5mm in height, made up of 44 parallel fins each separated by 2.5mm. This puts the total heatsink height at 160mm, the same as most other high end coolers to have come through our testing grounds. The length (distance across) of the radiator is 146mm. For comparison, the Super Mega spans 130mm across. The width of the radiator is 33mm. In total, the surface area of the radiator is 211992mm squared.


The second radiator

The horizontal heatsink is slightly larger extending a further 5mm for a ‘height’ of 112.5mm. It is made up of 46 fins, again with each separated by 2.5mm. This particular radiator has a surface area of 221628mm squared making the total surface area of the entire heatsink 433620mm squared. This is significantly higher than the Venomous X’s 384000mm squared but cannot compare to the likes of the NH-D14 and Silver Arrow.


Bottoms-up

The nickel-plated finish makes the Genesis a very appealing product, and the well finished curved heat pipes makes the heatsink geometrically perfect.

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