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Scythe Infinity |
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Value and Conclusion
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| 9.5 | The Scythe Infinity is one big mother of a cooler. It offers awesome cooling performance and is a real alternative to watercooling. In the past when I was testing at high overclocks I often had to install watercooling just to be sure the CPU air cooling is not limiting the overclock. Now I can just install the Scythe Infinity and get very similar results with much less time involved. Of course watercooling has a much bigger cooling potential, but it's also a bigger investment and more complex. This brings us to the installation of the Scythe Infinity. It is so easy, I am convinced even first time users can do it. The multi-language manual adds to the great experience. Including mounting kits for all sockets is very nice of Scythe, some other manufacturers charge you extra. Of course all this comes at a price. Spending over 50 bucks for a cooler is something not everybody is willing to do. Based on what we saw in the cooling performance tests my suggestion is to get this cooler only if you are looking into serious overclocking. When running at stock there are many similar performing, cheaper alternatives. However, if you are going to cool a highly overclocked CPU, this is the cooler to get. Before buying it you should make sure it will fit your motherboard. We can confirm it fits on the Sapphire AM2 motherboards, the ASUS P5B-Deluxe, and the ABIT AW9D-MAX. If you find a motherboard where it does not fit, please let us know. |
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On the Foxconn AM2 C51XEM2AA Motherboard the Scythe Infinity needs to be locked down on the side of the Northbridge heatsink. If you don't lock it down first, you cannot lock it in place as the Northbridge will be in the way. You can put the locked clip in place and then press the heatsink down and lock it down on the other side without any problem, without having to remove the Northbridge heatsink.
