Cougar Rolls Out the Forza 85 CPU Cooler

btarunr · Dec 28, 2021

Cougar today rolled out the Forza 85, a premium tower-type CPU cooler. The cooler features a conventional aluminium fin-stack tower-type design; but with a 85 mm-thick fin-stack, and high fin-density (50 fins). The heatsink is capped off with a brushed-aluminium top-plate. The design involves six 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heat pipes making indirect contact with the CPU at the mirror-finish nickel-plated copper base, conveying heat through the fin-stack, which is ventilated by a single 120 mm fan. The heatsink is capable of holding two fans (push-pull). It is offset slightly to one side, to create clearance for the memory slots.

The included Cougar Vortex MHP120 fan with this cooler turns at speeds ranging between 600 to 2,000 RPM, pushing up to 82.48 CFM of air-flow, at 4.24 mm H₂O air-pressure, and 31.68 dBA maximum noise output. The fan features hydro-dynamic bearing. Among the CPU socket types supported by the Cougar Forza 85, are LGA1700, AM4, and LGA1200. With the fan in place, the cooler measures 135 mm x 110 mm x 160 mm (WxDxH), and weighs 1.16 kg. The company didn't reveal pricing information.

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Caring1 · Dec 28, 2021

Looks good IMO.
I might have to see if they are available and how much.

AsRock · Dec 28, 2021

No under shot ?

Caring1 · Dec 28, 2021

AsRock said:
No under shot ?

https://cougargaming.com/_cgrwdr_/wwdpp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/forza85-product-section_02.jpg

the54thvoid · Dec 28, 2021

Caring1 said:
https://cougargaming.com/_cgrwdr_/wwdpp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/forza85-product-section_02.jpg

That (on mobile) looks like a render. Think AsRock wants to see the actual milling. Me too.

Lnxepique · Dec 28, 2021

Ugh, why not under 155mm... does anybody know if the heatpipes need to have so much space until they go into the cooler? They already gave it a low profile mounting system (the low screws leave a lot of space to push everything down...), why not make it compatible with more ITX cases -.-!

the54thvoid said:
That (on mobile) looks like a render. Think AsRock wants to see the actual milling. Me too.

100% a render.

Ed_1 · Dec 28, 2021

Looks like a copy of Mugen 5
https://www.scytheus.com/mugen5

Deleted member 24505 · Dec 28, 2021

Cougar, do you have to be 18 to buy this

Dammeron · Dec 28, 2021

AsRock said:
No under shot ?

You dirty little...

As for the cooler - looks really good (at least on renders). Now to wait for reviews.

Chaitanya · Dec 28, 2021

Ed_1 said:
Looks like a copy of Mugen 5
https://www.scytheus.com/mugen5

More like inspired by Shadow Rock 3 from beQuite.

AsRock · Dec 28, 2021

Caring1 said:
https://cougargaming.com/_cgrwdr_/wwdpp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/forza85-product-section_02.jpg

Not a true picture, just another rendered picture.

DeathtoGnomes · Dec 28, 2021

Loos pretty nice, err I mean YAY no RGB!

bonehead123 · Dec 29, 2021

Ed_1 said:
Looks like a copy of Mugen 5
https://www.scytheus.com/mugen5

which looks like a copy of ..........., which looks like a copy of ........, which looks like, well, you get the idea.......

y/A/w/N.........

AlwaysHope · Dec 29, 2021

bonehead123 said:
which looks like a copy of ..........., which looks like a copy of ........, which looks like, well, you get the idea.......

y/A/w/N.........

There is only a certain amount of design that can be done with tower air coolers. What's on the market today has reached its limit imo. It's a bit like trying to reinvent the wheel.

Chrispy_ · Dec 29, 2021

Lnxepique said:
Ugh, why not under 155mm... does anybody know if the heatpipes need to have so much space until they go into the cooler?

It's usually for clearance; 120mm towers that are under 155mm often have RAM clearance issues,

If you add setback to clear the RAM then you need height to accommodate the bend radius of some heatpipes, and the setback will potentially interfere with the VRM heatsinks on the opposite side if the whole thing is too low.

Realistically if you are struggling for height clearance then you should either look at a top-down cooler or just get an AIO

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