A Closer Look

This is a side view of the Titan Fenrir and it is made up of three main parts. The first part of the heatsink and it composes the biggest part of it the fifty fins that are spaced about 1mm apart. The fins are pressed on to the four U-Shaped heatpipes and this creates a massive surface area from which the heat can be pulled from the heatpipes.

For those that do not know what a heatpipe is here is a brief explanation.

"A heat pipe consists of a sealed aluminum or copper container whose inner surfaces have a capillary wicking material. Inside the container is a liquid under its own pressure that enters the pores of the capillary material, wetting all internal surfaces. Applying heat at any point along the surface of the heat pipe causes the liquid at that point to boil and enter a vapor state. When that happens, the liquid picks up the latent heat of vaporization. The gas, which then has a higher pressure, moves inside the sealed container to a colder location where it condenses. Thus, the gas gives up the latent heat of vaporization and moves heat from the input to the output end of the heat pipe. Heat pipes have an effective thermal conductivity many thousands of times that of copper. Heat pipes can be built in almost any size and shape."

information from the Noren Products web site

This is the view of the top of the Titan Fenrir Christmas heatsink. It has the word Titan embossed in the it along with the artwork of the Fenrir Totem painted on it. Personally I think it makes for a very sexy heatsink when mated to the fan that comes with the kit.

Here is where Titan Technologies has hit a real homerun, if you look at a normal heatpipe heatsink you will see that the contact material that rest on the processor is usually a two piece block of aluminum that is sandwiched around the heatpipes and then thermal paste is added to the inside of the aluminum pieces so that they make contact with the heatpipes.

Put what they have done is to cut grooves in the aluminum hold-down block which allows the block and the heatpipe to contact the processor for far better results.