CoolerMaster Looking at the heatsink from all angles

HCC-002 Heatsink From All Angles
	The Fan: The little hologram on the top of this 25mm thick 6800RPM fan caught our attention immediately cause it just looks so cool (pun intended). The ball bearings in fans like this tend to produce a high-pitch whine while the fan is in operation making it very loud to deal with. The fan connects to the motherboard fan header via a 3-pin connector which also supports RPM monitoring.
	Heatsink Top: That thumb level is a godsend and one of the many reasons why we liked this cooler so much initially. The 26 copper fins are each 0.8mm thick, and spaced 1.2mm apart. Each fin measures about 60x50mm. The fan screws into the aluminum shroud which is itself screwed onto the edges of the copper baseplate.
	Side A: This angle illustrates the well designed thumb lever best. Once you have used a clip like this it is hard to go back to heatsinks that require screw drivers to operate them. The copper fins are very soft, and are bent easily by the clip moving side to side. This softness could have been caused when the fins were heated to allow the copper solder to flow.
	Side B: With the soft copper fins on the the HCC-002 it is important to protect them from bending or damage. The aluminum shroud also serves as a support for the fan. It even has a nice stamp of the Coolermaster logo on the side.
	Heatsink Base: The engineers straight edge tells us that the copper base of the HCC-002 is very flat, but the surface finish is not perfectly smooth. The base has some very light manufacturing roughness to it - similar to the kind you would see after sanding it with 800 grit sandpaper. While it obviously isn't a machined base, it is more than sufficient with a nice coating of silver compound.

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