Legit Reviews has recently talked with OCZ about some of their highly anticipated Cryo-Z and V-12 cooling solutions. It seems both are still months away from shipping to retail stores, but we still got some pictures of the prototype coolers at OCZ's offices here in the United States. If you're interested in twelve heat pipes on a CPU cooler or phase change cooling read on!
Article Title: OCZ Cooling Update: V-12 HSF and Cryo-ZThe heat sink is massive and from the photo above has two sets of three copper heat pipes attaching to the base at two 'levels' of the base. OCZ is still researching if they should leave them connected or physically cut them on the base making them 12 individual heat pipes. On most heat sinks the heat pipes are just cut off and soldered together, but OCZ used these nifty caps that almost look like valve stem caps that any ricer would love to have on their car.
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