After I cleaned the drool off of my chin I proceeded to check it out. The stock 70mm YS Tech fan has been removed and the plastic skirt has been screwed on snuggly to the HS. The corners of the skirt have been drilled out and the Huge Delta has been attached with a rather stout wire (see picture below). This works for me. Looks very interesting and I highly doubt that the fan will be going anywhere. Now I'm sure you all have read our reviews of the Dr Thermal Ti-V77L and the Ti-V77N and both use the same heatsink as The Dr Thermal Extreme so I won't bore you with anymore details of the HS itself except to point out the tension bar in the pic below.. Using that tension bar enables the Dr Thermal line of heatsinks to be among the easiest to install. You install it as pictured with the tension bar up, after aligning the heatsink over the cpu and the clips on the mobo catches you simply move the tension bar down, and that applies pressure securing the heatsink to the mobtherboard.

The Install...

Now the install is something that speaks for itself. Seeing the massive size of the Delta fan I knew this wasn't going to be fun. As you can see in the picture below there is a nice row of capacitors on my Epox 8K3A+ that made this a not so easy install. The rear clip seemed rather hard to get attached and the use of a screw driver was a must. The delta overhangs the clips so they are kind of hidden making it a little harder to get to the clips in tight quarters. Same goes for the front clip. Use of a screw driver was a must but it was much easier than the rear given the fact I had a lot more room to work with.

One thing about a fan of this size is the amount of current (amps) it draws.  Its rated to draw .87 amps.  Now I really didn't want to blow the header on my motherboard so I went ahead and used a 3 pin to 4 pin converter for this bad boy (one was not included). One more major big positive about the heatsink aside from the unique design is the solid copper core. The cpu doesn't sit in the center of the core but it doesn't seem to effect the performance adversely. Though I do wonder if it was better centered if it would perform even better.

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