Getting down to the cooling business. Here we take a look at the cpu cooler for the unit. Its a Spire Icey Mountain series heatpipe/sink. It has an all copper construction, and several fins which help to dissipate heat. it also has a heat pipe running threw the core. The cpu contact area has a nice smooth finish. The fan on this is setup to push air across the fins and out the rear exhaust of the case. It is a large heatsink, but the design and fit are great for this case.

The cpu socket and retention bracket are very similar to the common pentium 4 setup. First we lock in the cpu, and apply thermal paste. The retention bracket has a small tabbed handle on one side. Put the opposite side in first the with a slight push, the retention bracket will "snap" into place.

The Skyhawk SFF comes with three temperature sensing probes. One for the cpu, one for the harddrive, and one the the video card. The temps can be read right on the front display of the case. In the picture above you can see I ran one to the Hard drive, one to the cpu, and since i didn't put an aftermarket video card in, the third I left for ambient case temp.

Also in to picture above you can see the included optional high performance fan. It does a good job of cross flowing air in the case. But it also adds some noise. If you want the computer dead silent, you may want to leave this out. You will however sacrifice a few degrees of cooling.

Last But not least, we place our dvd burner into place. As you can see, it is a tight fit and requires some delicate maneuvering to get it all to line up perfectly. A nice feature of this unit is the aluminum colored cd rom door. This way whatever color drive you use, it looks great. A nice clean finished look!

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