In the test 15 years ago: Scythes Top Blow Coloss Grand Kama Cross

In the test 15 years ago: Scythes Top Blow Coloss Grand Kama Cross 27 Comments

In addition to the tower coolers that dominate today, in which one or more cooling towers have been arranged vertically on the main board, top coolers with horizontal alignment of the cooling surface were also popular 15 years ago. The Scythian cross Great Kama (test) was such a cooler with enormous dimensions.

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The Scythian Cross Great Kama immediately noticed the twisted design and huge dimensions. In terms of size, the cooler came in at 171 × 140 × 137 mm (L × W × H) and was therefore not for small cases or users with a large feature or RAM coolers. With a height of 137mm, it was lower than many common tower coolers, but one of the tallest coolers of its kind.

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For contact with the CPU, the scythe placed on a copper floor plate, which was connected to two aluminum cooling blocks via four 6mm bows. The cooling blocks were set to one another, so additional slats were applied in a step-type design in the middle of the cooler to fill the missing volume. A supplied 140mm fan was installed on the slats, which operated with 500 to 1300 rpm. The total weight of the cooler was 750 grams.

Scythe was also able to collect more points with extensive support for various platforms, which extended via Socket 478, 775, 1156 and 1366 for Intel and 754, 940, AM2 and AM3 for AMD. The assembly of the Scythian Great Kama cross was in principle simple. For this purpose, the corresponding holding device was installed and then the cooler was installed using a pushing pin, retention or holding bracket system.

Good cooling performance with serial ventilation

In the basic computer test, the Grand Kama Cross had to assert itself both with the ventilation of the series supplied in the form of a 140 mm fan and with the reference ventilation in the form of three different models of 120 mm. A Core i7-920 was used either with the standard clock rates of 2.66 GHz or in “performance mode” boosted to 3.4 GHz at 1.4 volts. Tests quickly made it clear that Scythe’s Great Kama Cross was unable to keep up with the tower coolers despite its enormous dimensions during baseline ventilation and settled at the lower end of the test field.

Grand Kama Cross was much more impressed with the breakdown of the series. Especially at lower speeds it was characterized by a small volume at good temperatures. At higher speeds, it lost some of its performance compared to the competition. Nevertheless, it was able to cool the Core i7-920 with 2.66 and 3.4 GHz.

Conclusion

If you were looking for superior hair removal, you had a great choice with the Grand Kama Scythian Cross for just under 30 euros including a fan. It was not worth replacing the very good fan provided for a small 120mm fan. Those who were on maximum cooling capacity were best served with a tower cooler. The top blow design made sense, especially when space was restricted horizontally, or other components on the continuous panel needed to be cooled.

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