Introduction

From the ID-Cooling website:

Made up by a few veterans in the PC industry, ID-Cooling was officially announced to the world during Computex 2013. For over 10 years, the mother company of ID-Cooling is the cooling-solutions provider for many motherboard and VGA card brands. ID-Cooling specializes in CPU coolers, VGA coolers, built-in cooling for cases, computer-case fans, server coolers, etc.

Having been a certified supplier for the world's top information companies, such as Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Lenovo, etc., ID-Cooling accumulated a good reputation for strict quality control, fast service, and innovative solutions.

In the thermal solutions field, ID-Cooling keeps pace with the latest technologies by making the latest heatsinks for up-to-date enthusiast VGA cards for both Nvidia and ATI. Through years of determination in thermal design, ID-Cooling developed many new cooling ideas, including heatpipe, vapor chamber, and cold-plate technology.

Backed by an independent RD team, ID-Cooling is capable of providing instant product development and the fastest customer support. Customer satisfaction is the company's top priority, from the CEO to the field workers.

ID-Cooling is a rather new player to the PC-cooling market, having only arrived on the scene during the Computex 2013 tradeshow. Since then, they have managed to secure a solid foothold to rapidly expand into new regions. Offering up unique designs that incorporate such technologies as vapor chambers and vapor pipes, and combining those with exceptional build quality, their products have certainly managed to set themselves apart from the competition. With that said, it remains to be seen how far they will make it in this extremely competitive market.

Today, I review the FI-REEX Deluxe from ID-Cooling. This massive single-tower, dual-fan design makes use of not only standard heatpipes, but a vapor chamber and vapor pipe technology. The real questions is how much these unique additions improve real-world cooling performance, so let's without any further ado figure out what the FI-REEX Deluxe is capable of.

Packaging and Contents

The box the FI-REEX Deluxe comes in measures roughly 26.6 cm in length, 19.6 cm in width, and 15.8 cm in height. As you can see, ID-Cooling uses a very plain box for their product. The top features a quick tag line along with the company name and logo. On the left side are the model number and ID-Cooling website. The right side again has the company logo and name and not much else. If you were expecting a colorful, exciting box, you will be disappointed.

Contents

The box open, I am greeted by a well-packaged cooler with foam on all sides for some exceptional protection to the cooler and its accessories. So what the box lacks in appeal, it makes up for in protection, which is the way it should be, netting ID-Cooling's packaging my thumbs up.


Everything you need to mount the FI-REEX Deluxe on pretty much any socket available is provided. A PWM Y-cable for the fans on motherboards that do not have two CPU fan headers is also included, but other than it, there are no extras to speak of. Like with the box's exterior, the accessories and extras are kept to the bare minimum.

Common parts supplied for mounting include:

• 4x LGA2011 screw pillars
• 4x Backplate screws
• 4x Red washers
• 4x Mounting arm nuts
• 4x Metal spacers
• 4x Fan clips
• 2x Crossbar nuts
• 2x AMD mounting arms
• 2x Intel mounting arms
• 1x Heatsink
• 1x Backplate
• 1x Tube of thermal paste
• 1x PWM Y-cable