Construction and design

Construction

Xigmateks Apache EP-CD901 is made entirely of aluminium. The cooler consists of 58 fins and they are compressed and planed that they build the ground plate. On top you'll find a 92 mm fan that does 2500 rpm at 12 volts.

You can clearly see the construction where the fins are compressed to form the ground plate.

A clip to install the cooler on an AMD mainboard is already attached. If you want to install the Apache EP-CD901 on an Intel mainboard you'll use the same clip.

Design

To enlarge the cooling area one can find waves on the fins.

The fan which is 92 mm in diameter looks nice in its transparent orange. On the upside a top-flow cooler has capabilities to vent the the area around it but as a downside it won't support the thermals in your computer case.