Wednesday, October 15th 2008
Thermalright Preps Ultra 120 eXtreme with LGA 1366 Socket Compatibility
It appears that Thermalright is getting ready for the upcoming Core i7 series processors and their new LGA 1366 socket. The company is going to unveil a new revision of its famous Ultra 120 eXtreme heat-pipe cooler. The third party cooler will actually be nothing more then the standard Thermalright Ultra eXtreme with a different mounting kit. Thermalright is only going to change the backplate and the bolt-through kit to fit the new socket. Our collegues from MADSHRIMPS have a test sample of the new cooler. From the pictures we can tell that Thermalright is also planning on shipping the Ultra 120 eXtreme with their own 120mm fan and a new mounting mechanism for it. Specs of the fan are unavailable, though.
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MADSHRIMPS
14 Comments on Thermalright Preps Ultra 120 eXtreme with LGA 1366 Socket Compatibility
/sarcasm
edit: ok, not even close first, forgot this one and missed the other nexus (still way better performing at least):
www.techpowerup.com/70822/Nexus_Unveils_the_Socket_LGA_1366-ready_FLC-3000_Processor_Cooler.html
www.techpowerup.com/71588/Nexus_Unveils_Low-profile_LGA_1366_Compatible_CPU_Cooler.html
Even if its just a bracket, its still news - this lets TRUE owners such as myself go nehalem with less hassle, as TR sell these bolt on kits seperately a lot of the time.
Now while I don’t currently own a ThermalRight Ultra 120 eXtreme I always wanted to get one and nothing is stopping me from doing so at this late date.
I’ll go one further and say that the new mounting bracket for the ThermalRight Ultra 120 eXtreme is more then likely directly applicable to similar ThermalRight coolers with like mounting systems. In other words I could probably use the new mounting bracket on my ThermalRight HR-01 or Ultra 90A.