Xigmatek’s CPU cooler line-up is a vast one. They offer many contenders in a variety of markets which cater for every target audience. We recently tested one of their high end products in the Aegir SD128264 and found it to be a good performer if just a tad over-priced. Today we will be looking at a younger brother of the Aegir, Xigmatek’s Gaia SD1283.

The Gaia is available at the extremely competitive price of £17 in the UK, around $30 in the US and around €24 in Europe. While it may be half the price of its larger sibling, Xigmatek don’t want that to translate into half the performance. They try to accomplish this by using 3 8mm heatpipes in a direct-touch design coupled with a fairly dense aluminium fin array full of heat-extraction enhancements. A 120mm, PWM fan is used which is capable of pushing 56.3 CFM of air and rotating between 800 and 1500 RPM. Included are extra rubber mounts for those of us who want to squeeze out every last drop of heatsink potential by using a pair of fans in a push-pull configuration.



Link: eTeknix.com