I think this is a pretty great cooler for the money, great value with awesome performance.

Thermalright has always delivered quality HSFs IME. This looks to be a nicely refined unit. Test results will show if it's a good choice, but I expect it is.

They stay with six 6 mm heat pipes, unlike 'Power' variant that came with six 8 mm heat pipes. While they did reduce the high by 5 mm, they shifted the heat pipes and fins to one side, so it's won't block upper most PCIe slot, which is welcomed.

There been a few reviews on this revision of this CPU cooler already, it perform just as well as the 'Power' variant, though in some test it has lost about 1-2°C degrees. I guess it depends on the end user, if they get bother by the lost of degrees.

Have one ordered to test. Hopefully it will be soon.

Part of the reason for 6mm pipes is they can be bent on smaller radius and keep cooler lower in height..

Problem is most reviewers don't monitor the air temperature going into cooler, but use room temp instead. That's like looking at the thermometer in the bedroom to see how warm the kitchen is .. if cooling the kitchen will be warmer than if the door is open, but neither will have much if any effect on bedroom temp. :D

Just variations in the TIM seat , atmospheric pressure and humidity can easily result in 1-2c differences .. and room temp to cooler intake is easily another 2c .. and can be as much as 10c depending on cooler and cooler fan airlfow versus how well case extracts heated cooler exhaust.

This is why the Silver Arrow SB-E & Silver Arrow IB-E Extremes in some tests are 6-8c cooler than normal models and the same in other tests using room ambient instead of cooler intake temperature. ;)