As you can see this HSF has a very interesting design. The bottom is much smaller than the top of it is. The top dimensions are 92x92mm. The center is composed of a solid copper core. The copper though doesn't penetrate all the way through the HS, but I don't think that will matter to much at all. It goes at least 1 inch into the aluminum so there is more than enough area there for the aluminum to absorb the heat from the copper.

The retention clamp is what is really interesting. It has a 3 prong clip on one end and a single clip on the other. Now I'm thinking this is kind of odd but I've seen worse. To me it would seem that the tension would be kind of uneven across the core possibly causing some sort of damage.  It also is very unique in the way that it isn't nothing like we've seen before on a Socket A Cooler. To clamp this one down you turn the little lever and it pulls the HSF down tight against the core. Because of the way it puts the tension on the core it does so in a very even fashion.  There are 4 pretty stout tabs that when turned push against the clip bracket to give it that secure lock against the core. A BIG plus if you ask me. The heatsink itself does not turn like the Golden ORB's Just the retention clamp itself as you can see from the pictures below..

Another interesting part of this cooler was the Fan. The fan is a clear 70x70x20mm fan. Now your thinking what's so interesting about that. Well if you notice the picture of the fan below it has dual blades. Instead of having one solid blade this fan has 2 sets of blades. I don't know if this really matters much as I'd think that one solid blade would move more air but we'll soon see. This fan is also thermally controlled. The wires with the thermistor on it are wedged into the fins on the upper part of the heatsink. I'm not sure how well this will work but we're about to find out. The wiring on the fan is a BIG plus also. Since today a lot of fans draw more amperage than the motherboard headers can handle Powercooler has placed a 4 Pin molex to power the fan and it also had a lead with the smaller 3 pin molex so you can read the fan RPM's. Now with all of this said lets install this bad boy.

The install...

With the retention clamp it has, installation was very easy, the easiest HSF install I've done yet. Since the top of it is so big it made it a little tricky seeing the clips since the bottom is so much smaller than the top, but it was still a breeze compared to some I've done in the past. The lever to lock it down was easy to get to and not real hard to turn. The unique design this HSF has will allow it to fit on almost every motherboard out there. Given that the lower part is smaller I don't see it posing any problems on any other motherboard out there. The upper part is high enough up that it should clear all capacitors and anything else that may get into its way. One thing I really liked was that the core is centered right onto the copper as seen the the picture below. Unlike the Dr Thermal line of HSF's which is offset a little bit to one side. Given that it is centered I think its going to be a pretty good cooler. Now that we have it installed lets hammer it and see what its made of!