T-Shooter 4 Barrel Cooler

I can’t make heads or tails of this website but I did manage to scavenge a handful of images of the sweetest looking cooler I have seen in a long time. I’ll try to dig up more info on this thing for sure.

4 barrel cooling!! sweet!!!!!

Who knows how it performs but it sure looks cool!

I'll throw the first theory out.

It looks like it's creating a vortex. Maybe they figure a tornado-type effect cools better than just pulling air over the thin plate?

Oh, and google translate helps slightly. You can be confused in english, not japanese.

I think the concept here is that you're getting more air over more surface area that's closer to the CPU. Probably works pretty well, but probably not any better than a good heat pipe cooler.

shit Steve, I didnt even notice the headline I thought I was original on the 4 barrel cooling comment.


I tent to look at pretty pictures before I read. damn me.

Aside from the fan on top, my first thought was some sort of quad ln2 pot. But dunno

Any guess on what liquid/gas goes in the center passage?

Not even close to enough surface area, and has too much mass/material, too expensive to manufacture, it just can't succeed.

At first I thought this was going to be an LN2 cooler, from the way the top was open.

I'm not sure if this would work well in the way they're depicting it. Traditionally the fan blows DOWN on the heatsink, not away from it like they show on their website.

I think it might work better if there was some kind of side fan blowing cool air inand having a second fan pulling the air up out of the tubing.

my guess is performance isn't even close to the best cooler.... looks cool though.

actually, in a case, it wouldn't even look so cool

got their thinking caps on for sure

This thing would have been much better if it was lined with half inch long, flat pins spiralring up. I doubt this cools all that well.

I bet it cools just fine. Would I trust it with my pc..... F*** NO

Maybe if it was a heat pipe in the middle to distribute the heat but i don't think this would work the way they want to, but I am sure it would cool a cpu fine under normal use. I believe it would look cool in a case, if you had a window you could see right through the fan and the 5 pipes going down.

Where here is a little more English on the heatsink:
http://www.frostytech.com/permalink.cfm?NewsID=75643

Still no word on if it performs well...

thats pretty sick looking!

I wonder how it will preform as well as pricing and if we can get some people from japan to ship it into America for us!

If you look at the thermal picture, you will notice that the hottest spot (centre) is right underneath the fan's dead zone.

errr.... posted too fast. I meant it had a huge dead zone it seems like.

Originally Posted by venm11

Not even close to enough surface area, and has too much mass/material, too expensive to manufacture, it just can't succeed.

I don't know about being expensive to manufacture, its an extrusion that has minimal machining done to it. It looks a lot cheaper to make than most of the other non-OEM coolers out there.

Interesting design, I don't know anything of fluid dynamics, so can't judge it there, but the lack of general surface area would have me worried about how good it would be.

Atleast it is something completely new, not just a variation of the heat pipe + fin tower design.