With the Scythe Orochi (test), the manufacturer presented a CPU cooler 15 years ago at CeBIT 2008 that used the sledgehammer method. The mammoth-like cooler was nothing for the mass market. But if you had enough space, you could cool almost any processor almost silently.
Table of contents
- A kilo cooler
- Performance at the stop
- Conclusion
One kilo cooling block
With dimensions of 120 × 194 × 155 mm (L × W × H) excluding fans, the Scythe Orochi was a gigantic cooler – it even trumped the Thermalright IFX-14 and the Cooler Master Gemin II. This was also reflected in the weight: the heat sink itself weighed 1,160 g, the included 140 mm fan weighed another 130 g. Scythe had optimized the Orochi for low speeds and silent operation: Despite its huge dimensions, the Orochi only had 38 aluminum fins with large, 4 mm spacings and the supplied fan rotated at a maximum of 500 rpm. The ten 6 mm heat pipes, which dissipated the waste heat from the nickel-plated copper base to the fins, were visually striking. The fan of the Orochi could be mounted either in tower or top-blow form.
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Gigantic heat sink for active and passive operation
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Nickel-plated copper base
High quality – 38 aluminum fins at 4mm spacing
As a tower cooler with a side fan
As a top-flow cooler with a fan mounted on top
Scythe Orochi scope of delivery
Scythe Orochi – hardly bigger
Horizontal mounting direction – only recommended in special casesAssembling the Orochi was surprisingly easy. On AMD systems, the cooler was screwed on with 2-point clamps, on Intel a retention module was used that was based on the Socket 478 mounting system. The dimensions of the cooler presented a significant hurdle: Including the fan, the height measured from the mainboard was 186 mm (top blow) or 185 mm (tower). This severely limited compatibility, because only a few cases offered enough space to accommodate the Orochi.
Performance at the stop
< p class="p text-width">In the test on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700, the Scythe Orochi cut an excellent figure and placed itself at the top of the test field for all three reference ventilation systems – within the scope of measurement inaccuracy. Even with the standard ventilation, the temperatures and, above all, the sound pressure level were low. If you wanted quiet cooling, the mammoth Scythe Orochi cooler was the best choice – the standard fan was inaudible even at full speed.
Cooler comparison with the same fans
- Silent: Scythe S-Flex:
- Scythe Orochi (Vertical | Tower)68.75
- Thermalright IFX-1469.00
- Scythe Orochi (Horizontal | Top Flow)70.00
- Scythe Ninja Cu70.75
- Noctua NH-U12P71.25
- Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtr.72,25
- Xigmatek HDT-S128372,50
- Scythe Ninja Rev. A/B73.00
- Scythe Mugen73.50
- Scythe Zipang74.00
- Enzotech Ultra X74.25
- Scythe Andy Samurai80.00
- Normal: Pope F2GLL:
- Thermalright IFX-1465,50
- Scythe Orochi (Vertical | Tower)65.75
- Scythe Orochi (Horizontal | Top-Flow)66.50
- Noctua NH-U12P66, 75
- Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtr.67.00
- Xigmatek HDT-S128367.25
- Scythe Ninja Cu67,75
- Scythe Mugen68.50
- Scythe Zipang69.25
- Scythe Ninja Rev. A/B69.50
- Enzotech Ultra X69.50
- Scythe Andy Samurai71.75
- Power: Sharkoon Power :
- Scythe Orochi (Vertical | Tower)62.00
- Scythe Orochi (Horizontal | Top-Flow) 62.00
- Thermalright IFX-1462,25
- Noctua NH-U12P62,25
- Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtr.62,50
< li class="chart__row">Xigmatek HDT-S128363,00
- Scythe Ninja Cu63,25
- Scythe Mugen63,75
- Scythe Ninja Rev. A/B66.00
- Scythe Andy Samurai66.25
- Enzotech Ultra X66 .50
- Scythe Zipang67.00
Unit: °C
Conclusion
With a price of just under 60 euros, the Scythe Orochi was not cheap, but the biggest limitation was the enormous dimensions of the cooler. Few cases like the Cooler Master Stacker offered enough space to house the model. If you had such a case and the necessary change, you could use the Orochi to cool almost any processor almost silently.
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