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The Cooler
On the box, Thermolab clearly state that the Baram 2010 is, “Designed Best Performance At Dual Fanâ€, Chinglish translated – Push-Pull Configuration of two fans. We won’t be using a ‘dual fan’ setup today, however we will be using a 120x38mm deep high performance CFM San Ace H1011 fan to replicate this effect as we don’t have two fans alike.
What you are given is rather basic yet simple; one cooler, one tube of thermal paste, one mulit-socket mounting bracket with instructions, and 4 fan clips. Job done.
The cooler itself is rather unique looking with the placement and style of the aluminium cooling plates. Whether this layout is best for the surface cooling area and added heat desperation using two fans, or just for show and tell, were not sure. Either way, it does look rather distinguished.
The BARAM 2010 is the follow-up model of BARAM. The difference with the BARAM in appearance and this BARAM 2010 are that the colour of the base and base cover have changed to an exposed copper from nickel. The BARAM 2010 also has 64 fins, more than the original BARAM which has 54 fins. The increase in fins will facilitate greater performance with ‘dual-fan’.
There are 5 solid copper heatpipes connecting to an all copper solid base for the ultimate in heat conduction.
The base is very smooth to the touch. More so than on the best we’ve come across; Thermalright’s Venomous X. The base it not only super shiny, but very flat and hardly convex in shape. One thing that does strike us is how small the base is, and even though it carries with it 5 copper exposed heatpipes, can it sufficiently cool on the LGA1366 platform? Read on.
