Arctic Intros Alpine 12 Passive CPU Heatsink

btarunr · May 22, 2018

Arctic introduced the Alpine 12 Passive, and here's our cure to your déjà vu. The cooler is essentially an Alpine M1 Passive, which launched early-2016, but is anodized black. It has the same exact design, which involves a large monolithic chunk of aluminium measuring 95 mm x 95 mm x 69 mm, dissipating heat over large ridges; with pre-applied MX-5 thermal paste at the base. Designed exclusively for the LGA115x socket, the cooler can handle TDP of up to 35W, although it's capable of up to 48W. The gaps between the ridges are wide enough to let you bolt on a 92 mm fan for additional cooling capacity. The heatsink is priced at USD $12, and is backed by a 6-year warranty, which could come in mighty handy if the block of metal with zero moving parts somehow stopped working.

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MDDB · May 22, 2018

"...which could come in mighty handy if the block of metal with zero moving parts somehow stopped working."

LMAO

bug · May 22, 2018

MDDB said:
"...which could come in mighty handy if the block of metal with zero moving parts somehow stopped working."

LMAO

It's probably for the screws or springs having hidden defects, but funny phrasing nonetheless.

Dammeron · May 22, 2018

Wow, going back to the '90s I see...

FreedomEclipse · May 22, 2018

Dammeron said:
Wow, going back to the '90s I see...

eidairaman1 · May 22, 2018

586 anyone?

AnarchoPrimitiv · May 22, 2018

That looks like the heat sink that was on my first computer, a 233mhz Pentium w/ Mmx, 32MB ram, 4.3GB BFF, and an ATI video card with 4MB of VRAM back from 1996/7

FreedomEclipse · May 22, 2018

AnarchoPrimitiv said:
That looks like the heat sink that was on my first computer, a 233mhz Pentium w/ Mmx

YES! exactly this.

I pulled one off an Intel Pentium Pro though which was in old dell machine (i think) when my college was having a major upgrade and they were just throwing out every peice of junk in their storage

DeathtoGnomes · May 22, 2018

I love the creative brain power put into this over the M1, lets hope it lasts just as long! :shadedshu:

AnarchoPrimitiv said:
That looks like the heat sink that was on my first computer, a 233mhz Pentium w/ Mmx, 32MB ram, 4.3GB BFF, and an ATI video card with 4MB of VRAM back from 1996/7

FreedomEclipse said:
YES! exactly this.

I pulled one off an Intel Pentium Pro though which was in old dell machine (i think) when my college was having a major upgrade and they were just throwing out every peice of junk in their storage

I... still have one or two in a box somewhere. :rolleyes:

MrGenius · May 22, 2018

btarunr said:
...pre-applied MX-5 thermal paste...

Damn. I thought for a second that something new, and actually interesting, was being announced here. But it's just a typo... :ohwell:

ARCTIC said:
Pre-applied MX-2 Thermal Paste

Thanks to the pre-applied MX-2 thermal compound,
a quick and clean installation is guaranteed.

https://www.arctic.ac/us_en/alpine-12-passive.html

USD 9,999.00?! :eek:

Talk about typos! :laugh:

EDIT: Why do I see one thing when I read my post here? And a completely different thing when I read my post here? :wtf:

The Terrible Puddle · May 22, 2018

Buy it just to RMA it.

Caring1 · May 23, 2018

Solid copper would look nice …. again

denixius · May 23, 2018

Am I seeing wrong or it is really wroths fr EUR 9,999.00 on their official website? Or is this a real website of Arctic? https://www.arctic.ac/eu_en/alpine-12-passive.html

In the news, it says "...The heatsink is priced at USD $12..." I'm confused.

CheapMeat · May 23, 2018

Someone has to do a mini-ITX build with this. I just gotta see it.

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Arctic Intros Alpine 12 Passive CPU Heatsink

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