Construction and design

Construction

With the Gotthard you get a topflow cooler. This typ of cooler is capable of also cooling the power design of your motherboard as well as the memory. Compared to a tower cooler there is also a downside: usually tower coolers offer a bigger surface area which in this end means better performance. Alpenföhn manufacturs their Gotthard from aluminium and copper. You can find a copper base plate which leads the dissipation power to four heatpipes which all have a diameter of six millimeters. Compared to the cooper baseplate the heatpipes have not been nickel plated. Altogether there are 64 fins soldered to the heatpipes for perfect heat transfer.

Design

We did not see any manufacturing mistakes on our sample, and it seems that it has been very well made which means that manufacturing quality is on an good level. The heatpipes do have different bending radius, which results additional less vortex. Furhtermore this cooler comes with a total of 64 fins. Overall the cooler consists of three different parts. The two blocks in the outside are symmetric to one another. The block in the center is a bit smaller than the two others but still the two heatpipes which are located right above the CPU die are connected to this block.